Alfa Romeo MiTo

 

The MiTo is the first car of the Alpha range of new six-speed TCT (dual clutch transmission), initially available only with the well-regarded four-cylinder 1.4 MultiAir.

Makes sense. Small, zippy the door can be a smooth, compact, dual-clutch gearbox, which allows in-Town lazy left leg and country lanes of fun. Mate that is sparkling 135bhp engine, and you get 51.4mpg, 128g/km CO2, and 0-62mph in 8.2 seconds, shaving sly numbers or two-digit-plus-manual sent MiTo (50.4mpg/129g / km / 8.4 is 62 mph).

You may pay a premium of £ 1,200, but lost in performance problems and add a good dose of comfort in the city, right?

False. TST is extremely irritating, and the reasons are varied. TST MiTo is able to show a decent amount of CO2 as it is equipped with a standard start / stop system, only the second such system equipped with 'auto' a box - the first is the Porsche Panamera. We have no problem with that, but as the TCT interacts with the start / stop is intensely irritating.

Pulling at the traffic lights, and the engine dies when braking to a standstill. Take your foot off the brake and the engine starts - comedy from the starter instead of storing kinetic energy when the lights flicker in time to start the engine electrical system cannibalism. Then move your foot is transferred to gas.

Only when the engine is fired (a few seconds), the change does not try to choose the first (second), when you press the gas when the engine rev. After the delivery to and dump switch, causing a shortage of timber.

Worse, if you happen to be on a hill, as the MiTo is rolled back when attempting to wake the systems themselves, making it look like a fool. Turn off the start / stop, and you get a big orange light in the standing panel, a light that seems to invite to break with his fist. Maybe.

The new field is to select the gear ratios, apparently at random, arbitrary shuffling through the six speed dealer drunk. The paddles on the steering wheel (£ 100 option), it seems to work with the scaled jet lag, and even if you can manage to move smoothly if you run exclusively on a regular basis, as soon as you play around with gas or take a heavy feeder, motor too rpm compared to the CVT gearbox, and the AHS and UMS placed in a metaphorical finger in a corner of his mouth. Too bad, because the MiTo Multiair TB 135 is a lot 'of good leads. I just do not ruin it with the TST.

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