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"The Giulia achieves something that Acura, Lexus, Infiniti, and Jaguar have tried futilely to do for decades: build a better compact sport sedan than the dominant Deutschlanders."
"There is sorcery in this car,” Chris Walton said. “The Giulia fills the space vacated by BMW. Yet even at the apex of its reign, a 3 Series never rode this well or cornered with such poise and precision simultaneously.”
http://www.motortrend.com/news/alfa-romeo-giulia-2018-car-of-the-year-finalist/
I've been reading for what seems like a lifetime (last quarter century at least) about how any attempt to unseat the Germans in the area of sport sedans is pretty much doomed to failure, and for most of that period that claim seemed well-founded. Fifteen years ago, you didn't have to buy Automobile magazine to know who would win their All Star for best compact sport sedan; the 3-series had it in the bag year after year. Things have changed. Seems Motortrend thinks that someone has finally done it. Nice to read as going back to last year, MT had published a blurb that suggested the new Giulia was "style over substance" because of unsubstantiated reports (really it was all traceable to one Automotive New Europe article, using an anonymous source from an unnamed FCA supplier) that it had failed internal crash tests.
So from "style over substance" to reaching the mountaintop: building a better sport sedan than the Germans. As a longtime Alfa fan, Hallelujah, I hadn't seen this coming. I was just hoping for something maybe 3/4 of the way there, providing a good foundation with room for improvement so that some day the gap might be closed, if not completely, close enough; something that wasn't like the 159, being beautiful but dynamically no real threat to German supremacy. Early reports of a FWD car had me thinking we weren't going to get anything like a game-changing car. Fortunately Sergio had other ideas. Thank you Sergio! You gave us an affordable car with Ferrari DNA. Loving it!
"The Giulia achieves something that Acura, Lexus, Infiniti, and Jaguar have tried futilely to do for decades: build a better compact sport sedan than the dominant Deutschlanders."
"There is sorcery in this car,” Chris Walton said. “The Giulia fills the space vacated by BMW. Yet even at the apex of its reign, a 3 Series never rode this well or cornered with such poise and precision simultaneously.”
http://www.motortrend.com/news/alfa-romeo-giulia-2018-car-of-the-year-finalist/
I've been reading for what seems like a lifetime (last quarter century at least) about how any attempt to unseat the Germans in the area of sport sedans is pretty much doomed to failure, and for most of that period that claim seemed well-founded. Fifteen years ago, you didn't have to buy Automobile magazine to know who would win their All Star for best compact sport sedan; the 3-series had it in the bag year after year. Things have changed. Seems Motortrend thinks that someone has finally done it. Nice to read as going back to last year, MT had published a blurb that suggested the new Giulia was "style over substance" because of unsubstantiated reports (really it was all traceable to one Automotive New Europe article, using an anonymous source from an unnamed FCA supplier) that it had failed internal crash tests.
So from "style over substance" to reaching the mountaintop: building a better sport sedan than the Germans. As a longtime Alfa fan, Hallelujah, I hadn't seen this coming. I was just hoping for something maybe 3/4 of the way there, providing a good foundation with room for improvement so that some day the gap might be closed, if not completely, close enough; something that wasn't like the 159, being beautiful but dynamically no real threat to German supremacy. Early reports of a FWD car had me thinking we weren't going to get anything like a game-changing car. Fortunately Sergio had other ideas. Thank you Sergio! You gave us an affordable car with Ferrari DNA. Loving it!