Sunday, 7 August 2011

Alfa Romeo Giulietta

Rated 13 out of 20

235bhp. Through the front wheels. Alfa Romeo. Normally, that's all you need to know who have not purchased the Cloverleaf Juliet. Ultimately, the power and Alfa are not happy bedfellows in recent years ... 147 GTA, the Brera, 156 GTA - I could go on.

Clover new changes all that. This is the more powerful variant of the model range, location and 235bhp slap bang in the middle of hot-hatch world. But clover is not your classic hot hatch a little unbalanced. Put your foot on a dry road and soon the wheel does not move his hands, feet and 251 pounds are delivered smooth 235bhp 1.7-liter turbocharged new, and everything is strangely civilized. Alfas before cooking, until the recent MiTo, I always felt that the car was under chassis - as if too much energy, and suspension and tires could not cope really. The leads were exhausted by the effort of constant struggle to keep everything under control, with the result that took them all away so quickly.

But not in the Giulietta. Even a light tap on some routes of British dead, there is a respect for the brilliant. It is comfortable (through a height of 10 mm below normal Giuliettas) does not substantially torque and minimum wind noise. Even the interior is elegantly discreet with no seat on a ribbed leather in sight.

But there is a problem. If you drive on the ragged edge of the Giulietta, loses some of this calm. Renault Megane Golf GTI or keep on giving, no matter how you push, clover, there is nothing better, faster you go. Men running around in his hands more and amortization can not cope with the higher speed. Go fireball in a very difficult corner of the Alfa and the car is too heavy nose without feeling the Cloverleaf swing around as the best hot hatches have. The natural balance of the chassis is not quite there.

Alfa Cloverleaf feels has tried to get a Golf GTI rival, but is not. To be honest, Alpha Golf is not a part of the Golf GTI. It is a comfortable and sophisticated, you get a car looking good deal. In addition, £ 385 is £ 24 495 cheaper than the five-door Volkswagen. But the GTI, bi-polar part of the Golf is missing. That last bit of fun there. Buy it because it's different, not because it is better.

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