I felt like I got trolled in real lifeThe absolute worst car he could have bought even avid buyers of that car know they are shyt. That's why they buy them. They get a kick out it!
He didn't just get a luxury car, he got the worst one
Most unreliable cuz Italians value performance feel more than reliable utility
There's little after market parts
Dealerships will tear u a new one every time an issue pops up
No one feels sympathy cuz it's a relatively unknown brand
Here's an article that covers what it's really like to deal with that bs
Alfa Romeo Is Its Own Worst Enemy
How one of the greatest brands in automotive history might squander what goodwill it has left.
BY SAM SMITH
JUL 19, 2017
But the Alfa is different. My last Giulia press car—two months ago, in Seattle—idled so unevenly, the cabin rocked. Its transmission didn’t like pulling away from stoplights, either slipping excessively or jerking to speed from a stop. Earlier this year, when our digital director, Travis Okulski, had a test Giulia, the headlight washer cover fell off, the seat-height adjuster came away in his hands, and the radio refused to change stations.
Nor are we alone. As Jalopnik recently noted:
Consumer Reports’ Alfa has been to the dealer service bay three times since they bought it. The UK’s Sunday Times had three Giulias crap out on them. Forums abound with reliability issues. Pistonheads had an Alfa Giulia break down in the middle of a test against a Mercedes and a BMW. Motor Trend’s Alfa was completely defeated by a normal driveway.
The above lines were published a day after Jalopnik’s editor-in-chief, Patrick George, found himself on the side of I-87 with a Giulia that simply stopped running. The same exact vehicle that R&T's web team had a week earlier, which also threw a check engine light. Motor Authority went to Gingerman and had issues. Finally, R&T’s sister publication, Car and Driver, has seen three test Giulias to date. The first one, a Quadrifoglio, forced itself into limited-power efficiency mode whenever you remote-started the car. It wouldn’t leave that mode unless you reset it with a code reader. The next car, another Quadrifoglio, at the magazine’s annual Lightning Lap track test, refused to rev to the end of the tach. It threw trouble codes, lit the check-engine light, and started short-shifting. The most recent car that C/D tested, a 2.0-liter base model, jammed its sunroof open. The headliner-mounted switch console also stopped working. Someone eventually got the roof to close, but the car spent the rest of its time at the magazine with a note attached. It said something like, WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T OPEN THE SUNROOF.
I always shake my head internally at my boy when I think about the car he chose as a starter whip