8c - Harry’s Garage review - Sound and,,, how much??
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todea20
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YES!!! Even better
To be honest a Strad looks more aggressive to me than this Alfa! and the fact that a Strad is 50k now makes this 8c...overpriced x3!
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QP chassis, ASF and Carbon Body.
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The 8c Coupe hasn't aged well IMO, the roof line looks strange from certain angles and the rear kamm tail cop looks more aggressive than it did in the day. The style will probably work its way back into my head over time. The suspension on this one has ben modified and despite the money not for the better by the sound of it..
Personally even if I had the money I wouldn't buy an 8C coupe but the Spyder now thats totally different, it just looks so much all together
Personally even if I had the money I wouldn't buy an 8C coupe but the Spyder now thats totally different, it just looks so much all together
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GTS drivetrain, though. Shorter torque tube. Brakes and suspension more or less the same as well? Presumably the brakes are - he mentioned they're not very good.
It's an odd thing, but I didn't warm to the look of the 8C in that video. I thought I really liked them, but that one didn't do it for me. Maybe it was the colour. Maybe the spider looks nicer. It's not where my money (ha!) would be going, that's for certain.
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https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/alfa-romeo/alfa-romeo-8c-spider-2009-review/
Quattroporte-derived steel chassis.
Quattroporte-derived steel chassis.
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It was said that the 8C was built on the 4200 Spyder platform but that is not so. One look under the bonnet and its clearly the GranTurismo/QP shortened platform again with the 4.7 lump positioned aft of the front axle.
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For the same money, you could have an FF and a California, or a 599 and a California T... I know where I'd be putting £220k
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For the same money you could buy a 4.7 QP, enjoy the same music and performance, better ride, just as good looks and have the space to take your friends with you to visit the chateau in the Loire valley you bought with the change.
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I think the sound on the video is compromised by the echoing in the hard-finished interior. Who knows if it is representing things correctly.
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Thanks for posting. Another car which seems to fall into the better to look at, than to drive category.
Thinking about it, this was true of all the Alfas we’ve owned since the 2000GTV Bertone coupe which was lovely to look at and to drive. The 164 and 166 had great engines powering the wrong wheels, the 159 Q4 Sportwagon is still the best looking estate this side of a 456 Venice, but it had a boring thirsty engine and drove like an Audi.
Our second MiTo has the brilliant Fiat TwinAir engine, but as a friend of mine said “she looks like the kind of chubby younger sister you’d settle for if you couldn’t get off with the older one.”
Thinking about it, this was true of all the Alfas we’ve owned since the 2000GTV Bertone coupe which was lovely to look at and to drive. The 164 and 166 had great engines powering the wrong wheels, the 159 Q4 Sportwagon is still the best looking estate this side of a 456 Venice, but it had a boring thirsty engine and drove like an Audi.
Our second MiTo has the brilliant Fiat TwinAir engine, but as a friend of mine said “she looks like the kind of chubby younger sister you’d settle for if you couldn’t get off with the older one.”
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Sadly, it reminded me of restaurants with no soft furnishings where the food is great, but you can’t enjoy the conversation. Getting old...
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Think I agree Andy....The Spyder looks better. Wasn't the Spyder a more sorted car as well as they learnt lessons from the Coupe.