What's your excuse for not owning the best sports sedan in history?
ADAS is crapinterior is craprepairs are unaffordableliterally all they have to do is make it a bit bigger so its more practical + give it a classy leather and wood interior and it would sell, but no they give it these shitty Fiat interiors and wonder why nobody is buying
>>28661423Base price. Total will be over double that. Also, a US salary in Japan?
Lucky mutts. These are expensive as fuck in yurop
>>28661429Mutts can't import these because they're RHD. That said, I saw a LHD diesel someone imported to Japan sell for cheap and a couple manual QVs go for like $50k. >>28661428>shipping to USA: $2-3k (cheaper to Europe)>customers broken & inland transportation: $1k-1.5k>import taxes, registration & fees: $20-30That's still only $7-8k total. Car had almost 130,000km. Low mileage cars with 40-80k km go for around $5-7k.
>>28661424Who cares?Interior is fine Are you poor? I go to a cjdr dealer and it's cheapIt's already huge so why make it bigger?
>>28661424>repairs are unaffordable>give it a classy leather and wood interior>ADAS is crapdoesn't have ADAS unless you're a eurocuck buying a late model car, in which ALL cars in eurostan have ADAS>>28661465it's a bot. You can literally buy a replacement engine for $1,200. Parts are dirt cheap. The interior is nice, but not gaudy so shitskins hate it. They wanting blinking lights and big screens.
>>28661441>some beaner in customs breaks open your container and decides that your car is illegal so they confiscate it and crush itPriceless.
>>28661423Aren’t these the ones with all the electrical issues
>>28661441>Mutts can't import these because they're RHDIt's not illegal to drive RHD cars in America and they're except from 25 year rule as the base model is federalized so yeah we can
Adas is pretty decent if you ever actually use it, interior is peak comfy 2020 and later (shifter feels pretty cheap pre-2020), it handles incredibly well, it has more power out of a slightly modified jeep i4 than any of its German competition, the qv is magical, and any electrical issues are solved with $100 in relays (particularly starter and water pump), a metal coolant bleed screw, and a new battery. If you don't like tablets on the dash, want something with actual steering feel and precision, and don't plan to go to a dealership, it's the perfect sedan
>>28661423probably costs like $1,200/month just to maintain one unironically
>>28661554you're retarded. Go ahead and try it.
>>28661423They're fucking junk, lmao.
>>28661572>Go ahead and try it.It's been done many times, you fucking retard, my uncle has been importing EU cars into the US since the early 1990s
>>28661423>v6 stellantis garbage
>>28661572They sell RHD Jeeps direct from the factory bozo
>>28661423Expensive as fuck where I live no matter how old, even the most basic diesels.
>>28661603>my dad works at nintendoNice proof, meanwhile in reality your car gets crushed unless you're Bill Gates https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/a30986918/fast-and-furious-yellow-r33-gt-r-explained/
>>28662076Here in Aus, they're pretty cheap, common is the 2.0 turbo petrol version, has a ZF transmission so the tranny is fine, Seems electrical faults are mainly caused by the battery which you can just replace.
>>28661423>Japan>Left-hand Drive in a right-hand country>Small family Italian brand in Japan, where 2 of the biggest automakers in the world are located>Reliability issues>Too big for Japanese roads>Fuel-guzzlingThere's a lot of reasons why it sold at auction for this price. >>28661424>ADASThis is a 2018 model. Is there any ADAS other than the tiny rearview camera? >InteriorI drove one for 4 years and it was okay. The crazing on the dash screen is bad, but since they refused to recall for it there's nothing you can do about it. I did have the wood trim come loose early in my time though. Oh, and the hood release latch snapped so it stopped working well.>Repairs are unaffordableParts are expensive, especially if you don't have an extended warranty. Labor is even more expensive and hard to find if you're not in one of the big US metros. Like, Atlanta-sized at a minimum. Medium-sized cities like Cincinnati, Indianapolis, San Jose, etc. will have maybe 1 dealership.I don't think size was a problem, though it is a little smaller than the average Amerifat would like. The bigger issue is that the Giulia is now 9 years old since it was revealed and there have been no changes or updates to it: Not in interior finishes, not in car software, not in engine, not in anything. And what they launched with wasn't exactly the best; there are 2017 and 2018s running around with a radiator that has a known manufacturer defect that Alfa Romeo won't recall for replacement.
>>28661423>$3,300>33Please provide evidence e.g. actual link for your bullshit Masonic wind-up. I know what dropping a 33 means and it is tiresome.
>>28662076>Nice proof, meanwhile in reality your car gets crushed unless you're Bill GateThe government doesn't give a shit about your car, retard, theres no magical barrier to shipping one in and there are multiple LEGAL avenues to bring in anythingthe LE CRUSH thing is from businesses operating illegally around import laws and fraudulently creating documents for said vehicles. Hell, if you even wanted to you can pay to federalize any new car you want yourself and it will be legal to import for everyone
>>28664715>Small family Italian brand in Japan, where 2 of the biggest automakers in the world are locatedAlfa=fiat. Not saying you're wrong but it's not small company behind this.
>>28661565I have the same one. >>28661552The only problems I had in 7 years was the rain sensor failed (under warrantee) and replaced the battery this year (I noticed last 2 winters I had to use a battery tender when the temperature dropped, it hits -20F here so I would do that to all my cars anyway).>>28661604>>v6 that's the 4 cylinder version.>>28664715>>Too big for Japanese roadsThe Lexus IS and Honda Accord are about the same dimensions.>>Fuel-guzzlingI get about 30mpg, and I drive like a retard.Love mine, I use it in photo shoots with models on occasion.
>>28664715>Fuel-guzzlingI get 27mpg around town and 37mpg on the highway.>This is a 2018 model. Is there any ADAS other than the tiny rearview camera?My '17 has adaptive cruise (comes to a full stop, works in stop/go traffic), lane departure, auto brake + collision detection, blind spot warnings and all the shit that I really don't care about and leave disabled (cruise is nice).Parts range from dirt cheap to about the same as BMW/Mercedes if you come from owning those. Labor is also cheap if you know where to look, many are scared to work on these (despite the 2.0T being similar to that of the Wrangler), but as a 'worst case' example for $2k-2500 at most I can have the entire engine swapped with a very low mileage, newer unit (including engine + labor).>there are 2017 and 2018s running around with a radiator that has a known manufacturer defect that Alfa Romeo won't recall for replacementAlfa replaced mine under warranty in like ~2019, I don't know if it was a recall or not but it was likely done under warranty for most. Still, for the cost of replacing the radiator you'll be paying about half the price as a newer one, which, as you already allude to, is going to look and drive mostly the same aside from a few small updates mostly in the interior (losing the analog gauges for digital, SGW added to the OBD system making tuning/diagnostics more difficult, gaining carplay which can be added to a '17/'18, different shaped center console etc).The cracks on the lower of the dash screen suck, I've got them too, but most equivalent age BMWs have fucked up looking screens as well. The cracks can be filled in with certain trim restorers/polishes as well, although still a bandaid. The pano roof does suck on the earlier models however, and will break if it doesn't have updated guides/tubes. Relays/wastegate arm and battery are the rest of the maintenance I've had to do.
>>28664967I disabled the stop/start because that shit is really annoying. took 3 minutes, tops.
