Just picked up a 2020 Giulia on a crazy lease deal. Love the car.
Naturally one of my coworkers, who goes through cars like Tiger Woods goes through women, had some noise to make about picking up the Alfa. Reliability, blah blah blah (it’s a 24 month lease; who cares?).
Anyways, after all day of offering me $100 to do donuts in it in the parking lot (no!), he finally sits in it and had to admit the interior is pretty sick (I got the whorehouse red on black interior and dark black wood accents). But as he’s looking at it he starts calling out the dark wood trim as being injection molded (always got to find something to hate on). Now, we do know materials for our job and we do constantly deal with both wood (on Italian products - with a sand blasted look like in the Giulia) and injection molding. Me, reading the advertising material and reviews argue back that it is “real” and “genuine” wood accents.
Upon bringing in an unbiased third party, the third party calls it out as injection molded. Looking very closely at the trim around the door handles specifically, it does appear to contain what COULD be injection molding marks. Now, I am not 100% convinced that this is the case, but even pulling up the MotorTrend and Car and Driver reviews will not sway these haters either way. They are convinced it is all plastic.
So here is my question... am I the dummy or are they? I made sure not to pick Quadrifoglio references as I could see genuine wood being reserved for the top of the line model; but hey, I am willing to admit that I have been wrong from time to time (just don’t tell my wife that).
I will love the car regardless (it’s interior is not quite as premium, but way sharper looking than my former 5 Series), but it would be nice to win one over on these nerds in a way that does not involve removing material to see what lies beneath the surface.
Please tell me I am not the idiot.
-Marmaduke
Naturally one of my coworkers, who goes through cars like Tiger Woods goes through women, had some noise to make about picking up the Alfa. Reliability, blah blah blah (it’s a 24 month lease; who cares?).
Anyways, after all day of offering me $100 to do donuts in it in the parking lot (no!), he finally sits in it and had to admit the interior is pretty sick (I got the whorehouse red on black interior and dark black wood accents). But as he’s looking at it he starts calling out the dark wood trim as being injection molded (always got to find something to hate on). Now, we do know materials for our job and we do constantly deal with both wood (on Italian products - with a sand blasted look like in the Giulia) and injection molding. Me, reading the advertising material and reviews argue back that it is “real” and “genuine” wood accents.
Upon bringing in an unbiased third party, the third party calls it out as injection molded. Looking very closely at the trim around the door handles specifically, it does appear to contain what COULD be injection molding marks. Now, I am not 100% convinced that this is the case, but even pulling up the MotorTrend and Car and Driver reviews will not sway these haters either way. They are convinced it is all plastic.
So here is my question... am I the dummy or are they? I made sure not to pick Quadrifoglio references as I could see genuine wood being reserved for the top of the line model; but hey, I am willing to admit that I have been wrong from time to time (just don’t tell my wife that).
I will love the car regardless (it’s interior is not quite as premium, but way sharper looking than my former 5 Series), but it would be nice to win one over on these nerds in a way that does not involve removing material to see what lies beneath the surface.
Please tell me I am not the idiot.
-Marmaduke
