Pubblicato il 27 dic 2014
2015 ALFA Romeo

ONLY 500 are around ? I asked the lady ( passenger) at a red light what kind of car was that...???? She had an Italian accent and said " Alfa- RRRRrrroooommmmeeeooo"

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The Alfa Romeo 4C is Nearly the Perfect Driver’s Car

Let’s start by acknowledging that the three-pedal, fully manual transmission is over. It’s done. It’s an anachronism. And as the crossover/utility vehicles and midsize sedans that the rest of the auto-consuming world prefers continue to evolve toward autonomy, a stick shift is the one major piece that’s missing from the near-perfect modern automotive anachronism, the Alfa Romeo 4C.

A manual gearbox for the Alfa Romeo 4C would assure that this car could never become even partially autonomous. You need an automatic, or at least some sort of automated transmission, for that.

As sports cars become more isolated and separated from modern roadgoing appliances, even they will become less likely to offer fully manual gearboxes. Urban/metro areas where you’ll find most modern sports cars (as BMW has pointed out, true two-seat sports cars and roadsters are losing any remaining popularity) have too much traffic for the average enthusiast to want to exercise his or her left leg, especially when many manufacturers can claim faster shift times and better 0-60 mph results with a dual-clutch setup.

Easily the lightest of our 10 2015 AUTOMOBILE All-Stars, at 2,465 pounds, the carbon-fiber and aluminum-intensive 4C also is the most fun to fling around the tight, 1.88-mile, 11-turn GingerMan Raceway, in South Haven, Michigan, where we wring out our performance cars as part of the test. Sure, the Lamborghini Huracan, Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, and a couple of other cars on our All-Stars list have far more power and grip and could easily outrun the Alfa.

Not one is as much fun or as engaging. None but the Alfa is so lacking in isolation that you’ll feel as much in-control as in this car. Yes, there’s a four-mode driver’s selection knob, though if it provides any real difference in ride, handling, throttle response, etc., it’s that you want it in Track mode, which turns off the traction and stability control programs. Lapping GingerMan in this mode, you can easily slide it through turns where you figure you’re one-tenth away from a low-polar-moment-of-inertia spin, but even if you’re a modestly good track driver, you won’t back down as you would with the Huracan or Z/28. You won’t be traveling nearly as fast when you spin the Alfa, and you’ll always feel you can safely catch it.

The six-speed dual-clutch automatic feels responsive enough, as controlled through paddle shifters – though the instrument panel gear-number display could be three times bigger to have any chance of keeping track of the gear selected while exiting a high-g corner. But this is a car that has no power steering, so you get the best of both worlds; no hydraulic p/s pump to sap 1 mpg off the city EPA number, and no electric boost alternative to sap steering feel in favor of that extra mpg.

Critics of the Alfa Romeo 4C say this step beyond a Mazda Miata would beat you up on any trip longer than three hours, but I haven’t been lucky enough to drive it far enough to make that judgment. I wouldn’t bother with Bluetooth connectivity if the 4C has it (can’t say I searched for it), and for long drives, I’d probably spend much of the time alternating between trying to pull in good radio stations and listening to the sonic quality of the 237-hp, 1.7-liter turbo-four just behind my head.

In its automatic mode, the dual-clutch transmission can get you around a circuit nicely, and you won’t have to search for the gear selection readout. But absence of a manual gearbox option is the only thing that keeps the Alfa Romeo 4C from achieving tactile purity; the only deficit that keeps the car from achieving un-isolated sports car perfection.

http://www.automobilemag.com/features/columns/1412-motor-city-blogman-the-alfa-romeo-4c-nearly-perfect-drivers-car/

Modificato 28 Dicembre 201410 anni fa da AleMcGir

La nuova presa d'aria non si può vedere è brutterrima

OT: ma i pantaloni del "rama"?

Ma non era vietato postare video porno?

Ma che diavolo fanno a fare uno spot così bello quando non hanno più macchine da vendere perchè hanno già una lista di attesa dell'accidente anche in USA?

Battute a parte, spot perfetto.

Varrebbe la pena mostrarlo anche in Europa, IMHO, anche se è ancora presto per pompare sui media in vista dei nuovi modelli.

lo spot non mi è piaciuto per nulla, il paragone tra la macchina ed il culo della signorina l'ho trovato volgare, la voce off è invadente e superficiale, alla fine la macchina sembra una suppellettile.

Era molto più bello questo qui europeo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN4Ru7nSlEU

al settimo secondo veramente si sente il sapore della velocità in bocca

lo spot non mi è piaciuto per nulla, il paragone tra la macchina ed il culo della signorina l'ho trovato volgare, la voce off è invadente e superficiale, alla fine la macchina sembra una suppellettile.

Era molto più bello questo qui europeo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN4Ru7nSlEU

al settimo secondo veramente si sente il sapore della velocità in bocca

Permettimi, ma dal confronto diretto trovo che quello che hai postato tu ne risulti una tamarrata unica.

Musica che non centra nulla, immagini accelerate da cartone animato, qualche rendering 3D fin troppo evidente, nessun messaggio... non uno straccio di curva...

E nello spot USA la macchina non viene paragonata ad un culo. Semmai viene paragonata al sesso, in termini di coinvolgimento e sensazioni.

Magari non hai seguito cosa dice il parlato dello spot in inglese.

certo che l'ho seguito, per questo dico che mi pareva la proponessero come fosse un soprammobile; ma è solo la mia opinione personale eh, lo spot europeo mi galvanizza (sarò tamarro ) quello americano me la fa sembrare come fosse una pensione integrativa per 50enni. E se sono così critico è perché la 4c mi piace da impazziere, sarebbe l'unica auto che comprerei di quel segmento e mi irrita vederla sminuita

Questo è uno spot degno di un'Alfa Romeo: classe, eleganza, bellezza... se proprio dobbiamo trovargli una "pecca"... la pronuncia del nome "Alfa Romeo" è un po' troppo distorta nello slang statunitense... "Aifauommeo":|

(Quoto in toto Regazzoni riguardo lo spot della versione europea).