So, my local dealer finally found the Giulia I wanted. A fully loaded Vulcano black TI sport AWD. After 3 months, I finally have my car. Had I known, I would have ordered. The car was in almost perfect condition with the exception of some dusty looking dirt in between all the little areas they couldn't get with a hose/sponge. Not sure whats that about unless the car was stored in a field somewhere since January.
Initially I didn't feel like the car was as quick as I remembered last so I drove another just to be sure. My head was a swimming with numbers and real life business requirements that I had later that day however the car seemed fine overall and the second car we drove was similar. So we took the car home.
One thing that I finally put my finger on later in the day was the EXTREME acceleration lag. While I hit the gas down, it does go in either mode but takes quite a LOOOOOOOOOONG time to actual accept the change in pedal.
Scenario one: Punch it to the floor, no to little movement for the first second, another second later it starts to slowly pick up speed AND DANGEROUSLY I MIGHT add if I were trying to pull out in front of someone, then BOOM it rockets off and I cant really even shift quick enough because it caught me by surprise several times.
Scenario two, rolling through some turns at a quick pace, punch it to hit a straight away after a turn which I intend to hold for a few seconds then let off the gas completely to glide through the next turn without gas, only to have it delayed in response to my 3/4 pedal push and now I'm jumping off the gas almost immediately once it does finally kick in and going through the turn much slower than I wanted.
Scenario three, punch it from a dead stop to pull out into traffic...3 seconds later or more I'm finally moving quickly but up to that point barely.
I've noticed some posts about this and I see there are mods to correct. In my opinion this is a safety issue. My oldest most beat up car with two flat tires pulls out quicker than this and for the life of me I don't understand how I missed this on 3 separate test drives. Delirium mixed with self induced brainwashing Id imagine.
Is anyone else able to provide guidance as to why the heck this is like this and do I really need to spend on a mod to correct?
Also, another issue I noticed the second and third day of ownership, the car seems to struggle a bit to start and the muffler is quite 'poppy' sounding initially when first started. Afterwards it starts fine.
I should mention I already put 400 miles on the car in 3 days.
My break in procedure is let er rip and change the oil in another 600.
Initially I didn't feel like the car was as quick as I remembered last so I drove another just to be sure. My head was a swimming with numbers and real life business requirements that I had later that day however the car seemed fine overall and the second car we drove was similar. So we took the car home.
One thing that I finally put my finger on later in the day was the EXTREME acceleration lag. While I hit the gas down, it does go in either mode but takes quite a LOOOOOOOOOONG time to actual accept the change in pedal.
Scenario one: Punch it to the floor, no to little movement for the first second, another second later it starts to slowly pick up speed AND DANGEROUSLY I MIGHT add if I were trying to pull out in front of someone, then BOOM it rockets off and I cant really even shift quick enough because it caught me by surprise several times.
Scenario two, rolling through some turns at a quick pace, punch it to hit a straight away after a turn which I intend to hold for a few seconds then let off the gas completely to glide through the next turn without gas, only to have it delayed in response to my 3/4 pedal push and now I'm jumping off the gas almost immediately once it does finally kick in and going through the turn much slower than I wanted.
Scenario three, punch it from a dead stop to pull out into traffic...3 seconds later or more I'm finally moving quickly but up to that point barely.
I've noticed some posts about this and I see there are mods to correct. In my opinion this is a safety issue. My oldest most beat up car with two flat tires pulls out quicker than this and for the life of me I don't understand how I missed this on 3 separate test drives. Delirium mixed with self induced brainwashing Id imagine.
Is anyone else able to provide guidance as to why the heck this is like this and do I really need to spend on a mod to correct?
Also, another issue I noticed the second and third day of ownership, the car seems to struggle a bit to start and the muffler is quite 'poppy' sounding initially when first started. Afterwards it starts fine.
I should mention I already put 400 miles on the car in 3 days.
My break in procedure is let er rip and change the oil in another 600.
