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#101 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Originally Posted by Eric Metz
Personally, every time I drive my cars, I smile inside..... there is no car that can make you feel so good, escpecially after a bad day at work, the drive home always cheers me up.
I can sit and watch my cars for hours.... my wife knows I am nuts....
That's me down to a T. Sometimes my wife walks into the kitchen and asks what I'm staring at out the window. 'Oh nothing' I reply.  |
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08-05-2008
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#102 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Originally Posted by Damien_C
I am amazed how much this thread had expanded.
you can say that again!
just goes to show how much we love our Alfa  |
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08-05-2008
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#103 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Only once it's warmed up then it makes me smile big time, I drive like a geriatric until then and it's not fun at all..needs must though.
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08-05-2008
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#104 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Always!!!
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#105 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
All my cars make me smile...
V6 75... sounds great and you just feel apart of it
scoob... sounds great and bloody fast hence g-force grin
Fiero ...sounds great and just a blast sideways
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08-05-2008
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#106 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Is it a jealousy thing with non Alfa owners? Us Alfa folk know the pitfalls of ownership but were prepared to take the plunge anyway, in spite of the knockers.
I feel the Alfa marque is looked down upon, certainly by German car drivers. In company car days I have had Bee Emm, Merc, Audi, but can honestly say I have never been as passionate about anything more than Alfa.
This too goes for my old 166 which I thought was a very underated car and stunningly good looking, although perhaps an acquired taste.
Thanks for the kind words about the wagon guys.
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#107 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Originally Posted by mickeybee
Is it a jealousy thing with non Alfa owners? Us Alfa folk know the pitfalls of ownership but were prepared to take the plunge anyway, in spite of the knockers.
I feel the Alfa marque is looked down upon, certainly by German car drivers. In company car days I have had Bee Emm, Merc, Audi, but can honestly say I have never been as passionate about anything more than Alfa.
This too goes for my old 166 which I thought was a very underated car and stunningly good looking, although perhaps an acquired taste.
Thanks for the kind words about the wagon guys.
I love fast wagons what ever the make 
PS my scoob is a wagon |
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08-05-2008
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#108 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Who cares if they look down at us? We are probably having fun and look far sexier with our Italian cars  |
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
I love my 145 and it makes me smile every time i floor it. the noise, the feel. it is brilliant. It actually makes me smile more than it makes me cry and that is saying something.
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
mines just gone fo rher 36k service.....i feel lost without her! help!!
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
 i mean...i had to borrow my mums car to get to range......its a citroen berlingo!!! |
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#112 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Mine makes me smile so much that I'm thinking of buying mirrored doors for my garage!
But nothing pervy, of course. Mirrored ceiling tiles in the garage WOULD be going too far....probably.
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#113 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Originally Posted by wasil
you can say that again!
just goes to show how much we love our Alfa
Ya I really do love it Could never part with it.
Originally Posted by PC7671
That's me down to a T. Sometimes my wife walks into the kitchen and asks what I'm staring at out the window. 'Oh nothing' I reply.
Lol, I do that too when I go to bed go into the front room and just stare at it thought it was only me. |
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#114 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Even when she won't go into 5th gear!* I love Juliet to bits, I talk to her every time I go in her bedroom or we go out on a date together.......
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#115 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Originally Posted by vantasticc
I love fast wagons what ever the make
PS my scoob is a wagon
before my first Alfa I had a WRX Wagon, loved the drive, hated the interior and the fuel bills
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08-05-2008
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#116 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Can anyone think of a dafter question? Course it flipping does!!! |
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
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#118 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
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#119 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
My Alfa makes me smile when I look at it, and I enjoy telling people I drive an Alfa too.
But it's not lairy enough to make me really smile when I drive it. A car HAS to be RWD to do that properly  |
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09-05-2008
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#120 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Originally Posted by HSTDriver
My Alfa makes me smile when I look at it, and I enjoy telling people I drive an Alfa too.
But it's not lairy enough to make me really smile when I drive it. A car HAS to be RWD to do that properly
which is why our OTHER car is a silver Lotus Elise series 1 ...
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09-05-2008
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#121 (Post Link)
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Originally Posted by Damien_C
Somethings you just can't put a price on
Mine always makes me smile - but reference the comment "some things you can't put a price on " - could someone tell my wife this because she frequently reminds me of it's price.... |
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#122 (Post Link)
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Re: Does your Alfa make you smile
Oh does it just.
Leaving work this evening I was walking with a colleague to the car park. He spotted my Black 156 JTS and said "Niiiiiiiiiiice pair of wheels mate - pristine!".
Made me feel the car just rolled off the production line!
Fired it up, stormed past the barrier gate, swung a sharp left, accelerator, Cue familiar Alfa engine rasp which blasted me all the way home. Again.
Smile intact all the way.  |
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