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> From: (AlexUK) > Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service > Newsgroups: alt.autos.alfa-romeo > Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 20:19:55 GMT > Subject: 156 restyle: Last chance to buy a new future classic? > > As for the 166, I think it has lost all its finesse. Looks overweight > now. I had one of these for a year and it never ceased to amaze me how > gracefull it looked, be it stationary or moving (very quickly in > Germany, :-) ). I must disagree, I love the new 166, I think it is now the car it was always meant to be. The front was never quite right for me before. |
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SPOT ON they are going to bring in the 158 next year so why spoil the 156?
but hey Have u seen the S2000 Touring car take a look http://www.eurostc.com/2k4/Default.a...page=press%2Fg allery%2Finclude%5FGalleryV3Details%2Easp&nome=val encia&id=9# hell it looks good with the new nose sell one like that n I'm buying "Barry Bingham" > wrote in message ... > Saw a copy of "Practical Classic Car" or some such in WHSmugs yesterday > & they were listing cars made in the last five years most likely to > become classics in x years time. > > 156 was top of the list, with a prediction that it would be the earlier > pre-facelift cars with original nose, interesting metallics and wood > steering wheels which would be most sought after. As owner of a 2000 in > Nuvola this underlined why I have kept this car for four years and have > decided (for the first time in thirty years of car buying) that I shall > keep a car until it is at least five years old. > > Which brings me to Giugiario's nose job. Most of the coverage has been > favourable, probably because the full depth 147-u-like grill is, in > isolation an object of drama: indeed it is easily the best thing > (aesthetically) about a 147. But, while the restyle still leaves the 156 > a lovely car, I can't help but feel that the innate "rightness" and > intense beauty of the da Silva original has been compromised. > > This even applies to the mild tweaking of the rear: the light units now > turn down instead of up. In so doing they subtly (&, OK, very slightly) > alter the previous relationship to the curves in the rest of the body. > This is change for change's sake. But the nose??? This is I fear a > significant dilution of the car's beauty. > > One of the most extraordinary characteristics of my 156 has been its > ability to elicit praise from non-car people, especially women, who find > the car (and of course the colour) beautiful. Massively entertaining to > see the 4 year old 156 get far more attention from the girls than the > nearly new £25K+ Audi TT bought by a male colleague for the express > purpose of attracting the girls... I have shown two of these women > photographs of the facelift. "Not as good" was the shared response. I > have to say - after looking at the result in the metal at Brooklands 2 > weeks back- that I agree. And I'm unsure about the whole "corporate > nose" thing anyway - on the 166 I think it is aesthetic vandalism to > stick on the 147 grill. The 166 is a large car with a subtle and mature > appeal. The original grill suited it well - the drama of the 147 nose > (which is great on the small Alfa & pretty damn good on the GT) is ill > at ease on such a car. > > Every car needs a nose suiting its proportions, style and intended > audience. "Corporate nosing" f***ks this up. With the 156, I'm not > knocking Giugiario - as corporate nose restyles go, its really very > good. But with a car this beautiful, not as good as leaving well alone. > > So my proposition on the 156 is: the most beautiful production saloon of > recent years is no longer in production. It has been replaced by a > significantly less beautiful car and history will bear this out... |
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On Mon, 24 May 2004 06:06:17 +0100, "rp.addicott"
>, wrote: >SPOT ON they are going to bring in the 158 next year so why spoil the 156? >but hey Have u seen the S2000 Touring car take a look Looks MUCH nicer in the flesh <VBWG> Pete -- > 156 2.0 TS (2001) - Proteo Rosso (his) 147 2.0 TS (2002) - Gem Green (her's) |
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