cool good to hear from SA!
I have one, pretty bad picture of my Spider on-line here in the "Misc Car pix" folder:
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/kedelbach
The other weekend I had an '02 Spider 1.8 TS (I think, maybe 2L) loaner while the dealer tries to fix the electionic problems my JTS SW is having. They claim a small, hungry animal chewed some important bits. At least it had good taste!
Anyway, I electrical taped my digital camcorder to the read deck and tackled some of the great back roads around my town. Will post clips as soon as I get some more time to fiddle with my video editing system. They really came out great! The spider is just fun fun fun. Huge 17" wheels/Goodyear F1 tires made it stick like glue, didn't push it quite to 10/10 but really did work it. Clutch felt better than my 156 (firmer), and the sound was more sweet (louder
Just had a 3 hour blast on the autobahn in another loaner: JTS 156 (non wagon). I am going to have one hell of a time re-adjusting to US speed limits... cruising at 200 kph just seems natural now... I feel a little bad giving her the spurs like this with only 2000 kms on the clock, but the dealer could have always given me the V6 in the lot...
Also tasted the new 147. Stylish, quick enough, but just didn't feel sporty from the drivers seat. Too big inside? Seating too upright? Can't put my finger on it but I just came away feeling the car was made for women (sorry in advance to any hard-core women on the board). The clutch pedal felt like I could depress it with 1 finger. Yuck.
I am starting to get a little peeved at some problems on these new alfas... On the loaner 156: non-working front left speaker, crazy trip-computer (tells me I averaged 254 kph), skipping CD player, headlight switch you have to jiggle to turn on... but honestly most of these are defects the dealer should discover and fix, so I'm not totally soured on new Alfas (yet).
looking forward to seeing the pix Trevor - you have quite the stable of choice Alfas! Love the old Giulias.... and the V6 GTV is very quirky cool. I briefly had a 4 cyl Alfetta and can imagine how much fun the 6 is.
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pictures.
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