GTP Cool Wall: 2010+ Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde

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2010+ Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde

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I don't see why Alfa adopted the current 'round' design, the angular style was perfect. The 159 may not have been as good as the contemporary 3/a4/c class but just look at it!
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Imagine this design language on a MiTo size car.
 
Solid cool.

These are one of those hatchbacks you give a second glance to, I have been in one of these before and it's such a nice car to be in.
 
Clark
I don't see why Alfa adopted the current 'round' design, the angular style was perfect.
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Blame the 8C. Everyone went nuts for it and Alfa then assumed it would work on anything and everything. I don't mind current Alfas but I do believe the 8C's owl-face has compromised the design of every single one since it appeared.

The two most beautiful Alfas of recent years have been produced by coachbuilders. The Touring Superleggera Disco Volante, and the Pininfarina 2uettottanta. Neither had the owl face.

That said, I'm not sure the 159/Brera look would necessarily have worked on a car as small as the Mito, or even the Giulietta. It relies on quite long body profiles to carry off the lines, and quite large cars too - partly because that front end is pretty wide. Cramming big car features onto smaller cars never really works, which is why modern Audis look progressively more awkward as they get smaller, to my eyes.

The most-recent, best-looking Alfa? @ExigeEvan will be pleased to hear it's the GT, for me. Before that, the pre-facelift (pre-Brera-ised) 156.

Alfa needs to go ultra-modern for its future designs, I reckon. Owl-face has too much retro-pandering in it. I'm not saying ditch the heart-shaped grille as that's as much a part of Alfa as the kidney grille is for BMW. But implementing it as a stylistic touch on something with sharp geometric lines, perhaps a shark-nose style like the Montreal (though not directly influenced by it) and make best use of LED technology for a set of ultra-slim headlamps, and that'd work great.

May try and do a few sketches later. The MiTo replacement I have rattling around inside my head looks awesome...
 

Its not a car, its an Alfa Romeo

It is so true.

The categories for cars goes something like this(best to worst)

Hypercar
Supercar
Sports car
Car
Alfa Romeo
Bomb/Rustbucket
 
homeforsummer
Blame the 8C. Everyone went nuts for it and Alfa then assumed it would work on anything and everything. I don't mind current Alfas but I do believe the 8C's owl-face has compromised the design of every single one since it appeared.
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hyper-this.
 
Nowt wrong with FWD... besides the packaging and cost benefits, a well set up FWD car will be much more fun than a poor/average RWD car.

Car itself is meh.
 
It looks ok with them wheels on it but with any other set of Manufacturer wheels, it's not good looking. It is an Italian car and it looks stylish to some people, so it has that going for it but I personally don't see how it's cool, I vote uncool.
 
Clark
I don't see why Alfa adopted the current 'round' design, the angular style was perfect. The 159 may not have been as good as the contemporary 3/a4/c class but just look at it!
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Imagine this design language on a MiTo size car.
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8C and 4C aside, This 159 is probably the best looking Alfa in recemt times... similar to what the XJ-R is to Jaguar...

Simple amdalmost like timeless design...

I love this 159! Wagon too
 
It's just about a cool car but, as mentioned earlier by @homeforsummer largely because it isn't one of the mainstream selection and, to me a major point, it isn't a bloated, 🤬 version of a classic (I.e. 500, MINI).

I agree with comments on Alfa's design language. I think the 159/Brera front end is incredible and I really, really wished they'd applied it to later GTs (that said I also like how the GT remained somewhat untouched). I don't mind it applied to the MiTo, as I think it just about works, but it is a tad tight on the 4C

The Gi' is a car I'd happily never own because to me it too much resembles an Astra, a later model 159 would be more appealing.

MiTo, good looking car, good alternative choice, okay to drive (had a brief ride), but nothing to get the pulse racing.
 
Hmm, at first I thought it was on the same platform as the 500 (and imo, the 500 is much cooler), but its on the next one up (hence B-segment not A-segment).

It's cool, but only just makes it, it's a reasonable looking car, I wonder why it isn't pitted against the other B-segment hot hatches?
 
Conza
I wonder why it isn't pitted against the other B-segment hot hatches?
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You mean in general or in magazine tests? If the former, it kinda is, though the latest lot are a bit more powerful. If the latter, then that's down to the whim of the editor.

I've driven a few modern hot hatches that size, albeit not quite direct competitors - the previous MiTo Cloverleaf, the Fiesta ST, the 208 GTI, a MINI Cooper Works GP. The Alfa doesn't handle as well as any of them but seat-of-the-pants it feels roughly as quick as the Ford and the Peugeot. The MINI felt a bit quicker but MINI tends to nail throttle response and the GP is a bit more hardcore than the others anyway.

At 7 or 8 tenths I'd say the Alfa is probably as fun as the Peugeot, not quite as much as the Ford, but the Alfa rides better than the Ford. Where the MiTo scores is that the interior feels far more "special" than either the Ford or Peugeot - nicer seats, slightly more racy. As a car to toddle about in day-to-day it's up there with any of them, but I suspect in magazine tests the last few percent it lacks as a drivers car would mark it down.
 

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