My car gets driven a couple of times a week. I drive in D once the car is warm, but not in any extreme fashion. No paddles.
How hard do you drive your 2.0T Giulia?
As the title states, I’d like to get a general idea of how you guys are driving your cars? I drive my car daily and it sees full load/boost and redline multiple times daily. I always wait until it’s warmed up on the temp gauge. But I use dynamic mode and paddles often and run the car through its paces often.
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Triple digit speeds are easy over here as the speed limit is triple digits on highways....in km/h 
Every single time I go for a drive, I push it all the way in 1st, 2nd and 3rd if traffic allows. I use Normal until it gets up to 3 bars at least, then flip it to Race. I barely use Dynamic at all.
Every single time I go for a drive, I push it all the way in 1st, 2nd and 3rd if traffic allows. I use Normal until it gets up to 3 bars at least, then flip it to Race. I barely use Dynamic at all.
Years ago, I used to track our cars a lot, drag racing, all that. Learned a lot from my experience, and some pro instruction. I think the best thing one can learn on a track is one's personal "limits." There are a few winding roads near me, where there is sufficient forward visibility to ensure no one is coming out of their driveway, or rolling thru a stopping, where I enjoy my QV's cornering and handling prowess. I never use Race, as my aging abilities are not sufficient anymore to react to my car about to go off road into the SC trees. I want the safe net of my D driving. I don't think I have ever hit my car's redline, either. The only place I use full throttle is driving thru then accelerating and merging out of Interstate rest stops.
I grew up on British sports cars, TR's, MG's and the like, while my friends had Muscle cars. So I learned that my own maximal enjoyment wasn't raw power, but svelte, precision handling.
I do use all of my now 40+K mile '18 QV's performance envelope, but I don't do dumb (to me) things on the road. My prior two cars were a 427 Superformance Cobra, and a GT3, so I have some experience with superb driver's cars. But I have no desire to damage my Alfa or cause injury to myself or others by hyper aggressive street driving. I have friends who killed themselves when driving beyond their and their car's limits.
Pure power is nice, but carving a perfect line thru a safe corner is sublimely satisfying to me; always has been. Driving a 500 hp, 2000 pound car with a short wheelbase will teach one judicious use of a car's limits pretty quickly. j
Have fun, but be safe... NV
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I grew up on British sports cars, TR's, MG's and the like, while my friends had Muscle cars. So I learned that my own maximal enjoyment wasn't raw power, but svelte, precision handling.
I do use all of my now 40+K mile '18 QV's performance envelope, but I don't do dumb (to me) things on the road. My prior two cars were a 427 Superformance Cobra, and a GT3, so I have some experience with superb driver's cars. But I have no desire to damage my Alfa or cause injury to myself or others by hyper aggressive street driving. I have friends who killed themselves when driving beyond their and their car's limits.
Pure power is nice, but carving a perfect line thru a safe corner is sublimely satisfying to me; always has been. Driving a 500 hp, 2000 pound car with a short wheelbase will teach one judicious use of a car's limits pretty quickly. j
Have fun, but be safe... NV
This does not look like the Walmart parking lot … point is, don’t be a fool on the street 🙄
But somehow, necessary to tell me to buy a Prius. Not sure where you are from, but where I live, triple digit speeds are considered reckless with automatic jail time, car impounded, and possibly (likely) loss of drivers license.
But hey, to each their own. if you can afford such complications, be my guest. I'll spend my money at the Walmart parking lot, AKA the track... triple digit speeds all day long
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