courtesy of http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-2101920,00.html

Last week, after a hard day?s filming, I drove home in a new 3-series BMW. The Tom Cruise of motoring. The machine you would automatically choose if you wanted a well-made, reasonably sporty four-door saloon. And it was fine. But the next day an Alfa Romeo 159 arrived at my house. Now this is a car you would automatically not choose if you wanted a well-made, reasonably sporty four-door saloon. This is Christopher Walken.

[per Diabo: Take the old GTV6 as a prime example. I owned one once and it was a nightmare. The worst car I?ve owned. Deeply uncomfortable, spectacularly impractical and blessed with steering so heavy that navigating into a London parking space was like navigating a donkey into a budgie cage.
Then there was the complete lack of quality. Nothing worked. And when you got one thing fixed something else would break on the way home. Once it tried to murder me. The linkage from the gearlever to the rear-mounted gearbox fell off and jammed the prop shaft, causing a sound not heard on earth since Krakatoa blew up, and the rear wheels to lock. But behind the oyster-like impregnability of its ergonomics and hidden in the sea of snot were two perfect pearls. The styling. And the howl from its V6 engine. In a tunnel, at 4000rpm, it was more sonorous than any music. It was like having your soul licked by angels.]

This is one of those cars that?s demonstrably and appreciably better than any other mid-range four-door family saloon. And unlike any Alfa of the past, you don?t have to machete your way through a million inconveniences to find the point. This car does not hide its gold watch up its behind. It is an absolute gem.

voto 4/5: This is one of those cars that?s demonstrably and appreciably better than any other mid-range four-door family saloon. And unlike any Alfa of the past, you don?t have to machete your way through a million inconveniences to find the point. This car does not hide its gold watch up its behind. It is an absolute gem.

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[per Diabo: Take the old GTV6 as a prime example. I owned one once and it was a nightmare. The worst car I?ve owned. Deeply uncomfortable, spectacularly impractical and blessed with steering so heavy that navigating into a London parking space was like navigating a donkey into a budgie cage.
Then there was the complete lack of quality. Nothing worked. And when you got one thing fixed something else would break on the way home. Once it tried to murder me. The linkage from the gearlever to the rear-mounted gearbox fell off and jammed the prop shaft, causing a sound not heard on earth since Krakatoa blew up, and the rear wheels to lock. But behind the oyster-like impregnability of its ergonomics and hidden in the sea of snot were two perfect pearls. The styling. And the howl from its V6 engine. In a tunnel, at 4000rpm, it was more sonorous than any music. It was like having your soul licked by angels.]

 

ahahahaahah
l'esplosione del Krakatoa...se è fuori

 

ma che cazzo significa " avere la tua anima leccata dagli angeli ? "

molto carina come immagine! è quella specie di pizzicorìo-farfalle nello stomaco di quando stai per ritirare la macchina nuova

mai provata , quando ritiro l'auto nuova penso alla tonnellata di rate con cui dovrò pagarla........

Si penso che licked in questo caso stia per "pizzicata".
E' molto pittoresceo Clarkson, e poi l'ha detto sempre che per lui le migliori auto sono Italiane o Inglesi. Come dargli torto?

Va che puoi metterla a dimensione normale eh.......mica mi butto per terra strappandomi i capelli urlando "Oddio....adesso cosa farò"

L'ho comprata esattamente per quello in grassetto.....quello che volevo da un'Alfa Nord.

Se invece volevo addormentarmi osservando la bellezza della finiture compravo un'Audi. O una Bmw se volevo farlo piroettando sul bagnato

E non ti bastava il CD ? 

CD?? cos'è il CD?? Pussa via!!! Rigorosamente Cassette

Battisti e Beatles

ma il suono del V6 come l'hai clonato? 

vabbhè come sei pignolo già solo per il fatto che è vecchia è bella, poi viene tutto il resto....

mai preso nulla di nuovo,non so cosa significhi....