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The 164 was an excellent car, apart from the usual Alfa niggles. Mine was a 155 2.5. Alfas give you the most fun for the buck than any other car. Shame about their attention to detail.
Not arsed about the detail, fast as feck and I didn't even complain about the amount of money I spent on front tyres!!!
Sorry, the only niggle I had with the car was that people kept nicking the badge/lock cover off the boot! Every time I had it serviced I had a new one put on, then within about a month some fecker had nicked the badge! I knew that it hadn't just fallen off because the brass pin that acted as the hinge was always bent to feck!
I just wish I'd caught one of the bastards, I'd have a lovely face shaped indentation in the boot!
I've never seen a bad Alfa Romeo driver ever. Wonder why that is.
Probably because most alpha drivers are driving a courtesy car while thier vehicle is in the garage being repaiered :P
This being said I saw an arsehole in an Alpha in Basingstoke a couple of weeks ago. He parked accross the entrance of a car park to look as his map and then got all upset when he got beeped to move out the f&*^ing way.
This nicking of Alfa Romeo badges must be a northern thing. I had mine for 5 years in London where it got broken into 4 times. When I went up north no one broke into it, but the badges (front and rear) disappeared in one week.:rolleyes
Another gripe, why don't people push there cars off the road when they break down anymore?
Quite often I find myself in a long traffic jam and at the front some fookwit is stood by their broken down car in the middle of the road despite there being a verge to push said car onto.
Same with my tyre caps (not hub caps, the little fiddly things that screw onto the air inlet) - I bought a set of four with the jaguar logo for my Jag, and the first night I parked in a Bristol street they were all pinched >:
Apparently it's mostly kids who steal that kind of thing, to add to their collection or swap or something. Little bastards!
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