Hi guys, very tempted to buy a giulietta in the next six months for my daily driver and after some advise. The main reason for the purchase is I have a 54 mile daily Commute, so around 13k miles a year.
I currently use my alfa gtv v6 and as much fun it is the miles are take it's tole on the old girl, I'm forever spending out on maintenance and every other weekend I'm working on her. The fuel bills are rather big too £65 a week, around £350 a month. Don't get me wrong it's a great car and I will be keeping her but I fancy something newer, a car I don't have to repair all the time (£2.5k) on the v6 last year and seem to be getting the spanners out every other weekend. Also new cars seem so much better equipped, better ride quality, longer service intervals and most importantly good mpg.
Now all the alfas I have every owned have been high on maintenance
I have had a.......
1996 spider ts
2001 Blue Alfa gtv ts
1997 Red alfa gtv ts
2005 Grey alfa 156jtd sport
And currently have a Red ts spider 1997 and black alfa gtv v6 (both cars will be tucked away) when I buy my Commute car.
So you can see I have never had a new car or newish car so all my cars have required lots of tlc, under a bit of pressure from the mrs to buy a "sensible fuel effiecient car" but as you can tell I love alfas.
So are theses new models any better? I borrowed my days audi a1 and it was so nice to just get in a car and drive it, although a little dull being a audi that everyone else drives lol! Like I said before I have never had a new/newish car and I have seen a 2013 guilietta with just 23k miles for sale in Chesterfield alfa romeo main dealer. It's £8799 and a 2.0d and looks very tempting. Also a 1.6 sportive with red leather at £11k, both low mileage.
I'm will confess I'm a bit of a magpie, I'm a sucker for nice wheels, side skirts all those alfa treats, For example the spider I upgraded to blackline wheels and tan leather interior and the v6 I fitted cup kit, Autodelta and other goodies. This time round I would like to buy a car with them ready fitted, well nice wheels and part leather at least. so can anyone help with what spec level am I looking at? Parkers is confusing, there are so many different specs, best to get the sportive?
I also like one at available car (yeah all three are white) but two things put me off, it's being sold at available car and it's the £110 tax, would love a £30 a year car
So it's needs to be cheap to run and tax and look cool without costing the earth to maintain. What diesel is better 1.6 or 2.0, most days I cruise on m1 between 70-80 and boot it the odd day.
Is a second hand guilietta something to concider? Any help, tips or hint very much appreciated, also where is the best places to buy them, alfa main dealers? Budget between £8-£10k
Appreciate any advise
Thanks Jon
I currently use my alfa gtv v6 and as much fun it is the miles are take it's tole on the old girl, I'm forever spending out on maintenance and every other weekend I'm working on her. The fuel bills are rather big too £65 a week, around £350 a month. Don't get me wrong it's a great car and I will be keeping her but I fancy something newer, a car I don't have to repair all the time (£2.5k) on the v6 last year and seem to be getting the spanners out every other weekend. Also new cars seem so much better equipped, better ride quality, longer service intervals and most importantly good mpg.
Now all the alfas I have every owned have been high on maintenance
I have had a.......
1996 spider ts
2001 Blue Alfa gtv ts
1997 Red alfa gtv ts
2005 Grey alfa 156jtd sport
And currently have a Red ts spider 1997 and black alfa gtv v6 (both cars will be tucked away) when I buy my Commute car.
So you can see I have never had a new car or newish car so all my cars have required lots of tlc, under a bit of pressure from the mrs to buy a "sensible fuel effiecient car" but as you can tell I love alfas.
So are theses new models any better? I borrowed my days audi a1 and it was so nice to just get in a car and drive it, although a little dull being a audi that everyone else drives lol! Like I said before I have never had a new/newish car and I have seen a 2013 guilietta with just 23k miles for sale in Chesterfield alfa romeo main dealer. It's £8799 and a 2.0d and looks very tempting. Also a 1.6 sportive with red leather at £11k, both low mileage.
I'm will confess I'm a bit of a magpie, I'm a sucker for nice wheels, side skirts all those alfa treats, For example the spider I upgraded to blackline wheels and tan leather interior and the v6 I fitted cup kit, Autodelta and other goodies. This time round I would like to buy a car with them ready fitted, well nice wheels and part leather at least. so can anyone help with what spec level am I looking at? Parkers is confusing, there are so many different specs, best to get the sportive?
I also like one at available car (yeah all three are white) but two things put me off, it's being sold at available car and it's the £110 tax, would love a £30 a year car
So it's needs to be cheap to run and tax and look cool without costing the earth to maintain. What diesel is better 1.6 or 2.0, most days I cruise on m1 between 70-80 and boot it the odd day.
Is a second hand guilietta something to concider? Any help, tips or hint very much appreciated, also where is the best places to buy them, alfa main dealers? Budget between £8-£10k
Appreciate any advise
Thanks Jon