GTP Cool Wall: 1974-1986 Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT/Alfetta GTV/GTV/GTV6/GTV8

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1974-1986 Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT/Alfetta GTV/GTV/GTV6/GTV8

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niky
Digging the new format, @White & Nerdy. Much better.



I see your point, but he's owned a lot of nice cars... so... hmmm...

Gut instinct goes cool on this one... whatever else may be wrong with it...
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Clarkson talks about the GTV6 a lot, that's why. It honestly has more to do with that than him owning it.
 
The "dark period" of cars was considerably less dark in countries who decided emissions laws and fuel economy needs would be met better by doing more than taking 60s V8 engines and beating the hell out of them until they produced so little power that the really couldn't emit anything.


Well, maybe not British-Leyland either.
 
It's an older Alfa Romeo. Cool.

Slash
Could be a sleeper with the V8 if it had some work done.

But otherwise uncool. It's just not appealing or interesting.
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Apparently, there was a model with a V8 in it.
 
Yeah I see that. Wonder how it sounds.
 
Zenith
Clarkson talks about the GTV6 a lot, that's why. It honestly has more to do with that than him owning it.
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Well, he would have to have loved it to own one... :lol:

I don't recall having watched a segment or read an editorial where he's lionized the car... but considering the sheer volume of his work, that's not a difficult achievement... I actually like Alfas just because... but as this one isn't quite the right Alfa, it's still not on my Sub-Zee list.
 
I was never bitten by that Alfa Romeo bug, but this is still a pretty cool car. The Tipo 33 Stradale and Giula/GT/Whateverthecorrectnameis are SZ, though.
 
Tornado
The "dark period" of cars was considerably less dark in countries who decided emissions laws and fuel economy needs would be met better by doing more than taking 60s V8 engines and beating the hell out of them until they produced so little power that the really couldn't emit anything.


Well, maybe not British-Leyland either.
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The years following the 1973 Oil Crisis were bad for more reasons than less horsepower. Cars were uglier, FWD became commonplace, interiors became brown and tan for some reason, and above all, governments around the worst tightened their grip on the automotive industry. At least motorsports were good during the same time.
 
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There was more than one though. One in '73/74 and one in 78.
 
I like Alfa Romeos, but from what I've read this Alfa was about as unreliable as they come, and having to explain what it is to the small crowd that has assembled to watch it get rolled onto a tow truck is uncool.
 
Just gonna leave this here…
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To my eyes, most of the world's most-attractive cars were built from the '60s straight on through the '80s, including the so called "dark period". This car is a textbook example of what I consider awesome design. I'm not super enthused about Alfa Romeos, but I'm a big Giugiaro fan. I voted Sub Zero.

I would pin the dark period of automotive design on the '90s or '00s...with exceptions, of course. I appreciate subtly curved "boxy" edges, lithe proportions, discrete headlamps (and pop-ups!), split windows, "sharknoses", useful bumpers, black trim, and 14-16" wheels. I'm not so much a fan of jellybean curves, tall beltlines and thick pillars, wacky-shaped headlight covers, small windows, slab-faced plastic bumpers with uninterrupted swaths of paint (ie. no trim), and huge wheels.

My eyeballs act as if they're magnetized to almost anything from this period. I could ogle an original (V10) Toyota Camry while a new Shelby GT500 rolls by, to get the point across to a particular demographic here. Likewise, my gaze would be drawn to a Ford Pinto over something like a 370Z. There are fewer cars from 1990-2009 that I find as interesting as classics like this.

However, I am fond of the direction automotive styling has taken in the '10s so far. Generally kind of thick/chunky, but in a well-sculpted and visually exciting way.
 
@Wolfe

I didn't realize your taste in cars was so close to mine. 60s-80s are my absolutely favorite period, especially the muscle car and dark ages.
 
Looks kinda cool I guess..

I dunno it doesn't really do much for me to be honest, I feel nothing from this car - I'll be a cop out and say a very, very low cool if only for the images with nicer rims which really make the car.
 
Slash
Yeah I see that. Wonder how it sounds.
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I don't know about the 4 banger or the V8, but the 2.5L Busso V6 is heavenly.
 
A BTCC winner with Andy Rouse and very pretty to look at. I take leave of my senses and adore this car. Sub zero.
 
@Roger the Horse -- I didn't say it was on my list of "most-attractive cars". :D Nowadays it's something unique, a rarer sight than several performance cars, for sure.

I was at a classic car show once, and among the hot rods and typical american models from the '50s/'60s, the car I found most intriguing was a 1984 Plymouth Colt GTS Turbo. It had a placard describing Mitsubishi's Twin Stick/Super Shift transmission, which made it impressively quick for the time and also geeky (there were two reverse speeds).
 
Azure Flare
I don't know about the 4 banger or the V8, but the 2.5L Busso V6 is heavenly.
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The V8 sounds just as good, there are a few videos of it on youtube. Just look it up in rally form.
 
Cano
It isn't. He likes cars from that period. You only like american cars from that period.
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Not quite true....I like a lot of cars from that period.

The difference here is I don't talk about them.
 
Sub Zero. One of my longtime favorites, and looks good in black, blue white or red. The V6's it has sound phenomenally sexy with their traditional Alfa snarl too. They're also reasonably light, and only ones I've seen for sale even here in US, have had higher asking price than E36 M3's.
 
Leonidae@MFT
Sub Zero. One of my longtime favorites, and looks good in black, blue white or red. The V6's it has sound phenomenally sexy with their traditional Alfa snarl too. They're also reasonably light, and only ones I've seen for sale even here in US, have had higher asking price than E36 M3's.
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That's so the previous owner can recover the costs of repairing it so often :sly:
 
Wolfe
I didn't say it was on my list of "most-attractive cars".
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I'm not sure what you're on about "most-attractive cars". I was talking about the idea of a V10 Camry.
 
An odd-looking but wonderful looking car at the same time. I'm an aesthetics whore, so that's enough for me. Sub Zero.
 
I know there's the SUBRC rule for some, myself included, but we are judging an actual car. However...

1980s BTCC = very cool

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Cool because it has a racing pedigree as seen above and even though they're not the best looking cars, they're still Alfas that with a V6 can produce over 200bhp, to me that's cool.
 
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