More Alfa Romeo Giulia picture leaks

"tapzz" (tapzz) 06/24/2015 at 06:17 • Filed to: Alfa Romeo Giulia

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It’s Angry Birds!

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Still love the proportions, and I could live with the surfacing on the flanks, even if I’m not a fan. Neat way to make the flame surfacing into functional vents on the go-faster version (GTA, Quadrifoglio Verde?), though.

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That face, though. I guess they wanted to make it distinctive.

Interior is neat

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With nice echos of the Giulia Sprint interiors of the early ‘60s

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At any rate, I guess they got one happy/angry customer

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pip bip - choose Corrour > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 06:20

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looking forward to it.

tapzz > pip bip - choose Corrour 06/24/2015 at 06:26

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just six and half more hours!

My hovercraft is full of eels > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 06:27

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Wait... are we sure this is the real deal, not just another render?

Because if these are real, I’m pretty disappointed. I mean, the car looked pretty good on the two leaked pics, but this front... ugh.

Justin Young > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 06:30

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Not sure about the front eyes, but maybe I’ll get used to it...in time.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 06:30

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The dramatic depreciation on Alfas means I could probably own one of these in a couple years. Looks awesome.

tapzz > My hovercraft is full of eels 06/24/2015 at 06:31

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Not for sure: they’re all computer renders, but they do tally very closely with the potato cam pictures that leaked yesterday.

I can’t say I’m taken by the front either, but maybe it needs a little time. Some of the best designs need to grow on you...

tapzz > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 06/24/2015 at 06:33

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One stalwart in my regular autotrader/ebay rounds: the original 156. One day it might just pull the trigger.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 06:44

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Front fascia looks super derpy

LongbowMkII > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 06:52

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if there isn’t a manual option....

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 06:53

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An early to mid 2000s Alfa was on my list of “want but insurance says no” cars.

LongbowMkII > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 06:56

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I had a dream about one of these last night thanks to these pics. Apparently I’m a showoff and was nearly arrested... oops.

http://oppositelock.kinja.com/alfa-romeo-giu…

tapzz > LongbowMkII 06/24/2015 at 06:59

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There will be- Europe would still be the main market for these, I’m sure.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 07:06

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I like everything but the face. I can’t help but think they could solve all that by moving the projectors in the headlights in a couple of inches. Not the headlights themselves, but just the circular projectors within them.

I’d photochop it, but I have neither the skills nor the time...

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 07:08

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Do it. I’ve got a 156 2.5l V6 that I daily drove for a number of years. Very few problems (only one was a MAF sensor that’s also standard fitment on similar age BMWs, so you can hardly blame Alfa for that part’s reliability).

Utterly fantastic car. Handles slightly worse than an E36, but that’s more than made up for by the drama, eagerness and noise of the drivetrain. Really an absolute peach.

GhostZ > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 07:36

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BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 06/24/2015 at 07:50

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Actually, sod that. All it needs is an extra set of smaller projectors inside the big ones. It’d hark back to the quad headlamp 2000 GTVs as well...

tapzz > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 06/24/2015 at 07:52

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I think it’s a matter of a very delicate balance of proportions. I think they have the headlights about right, but the scudetto is too large. Compare the original Giulietta 750/101 with the current one:

Same motif, but the smaller headlights and slimmer scudetto and whiskers of the original look fantastic, while the bigger features on the modern Giulietta make it look like an over-inflated budgie.

I thought it might be the new Giulia’s lines in the bonnet that lead to the scudetto that’s the problem, but I don’t think it is. Compare the pre- and post-facelift versions of the 916 series GTV:

Small scudetto and whiskers, delicate proportions, gorgeous.

Big scudetto and whiskers, proportions gone to pot, fcking ugly.

But both have the strong bonnet lines.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 07:59

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That does look remarkably different, especially with the GTV. I think the swept-back looks of modern front ends doesn’t help the gormless look. Just look at the 1st and 2nd generation 1-series.

Actually, I wonder what concave instead of convex lines on the two lower edges of the scudetto would look like. Things like that tend to visually slim things down...

MultiplaOrgasms > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 08:00

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This is a very nice looking BMW M235i Gran Coupé.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 08:13

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Release the wagon!

LongbowMkII > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 08:23

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looking at it a 2nd time (slow morning) the base model looks much better than the vented one.

OPPOsaurus WRX > GhostZ 06/24/2015 at 08:24

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tapzz > MultiplaOrgasms 06/24/2015 at 09:06

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Ouch: harsh!

tapzz > LongbowMkII 06/24/2015 at 09:11

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In that it’s a slightly less angry bird: yes. But I have to say as someone who generally doesn’t like the pointless drama of M-Sport versions and the like, it does look remarkably well integrated and functional.

BrainForest > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 09:17

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I can live with the triangle when it’s just a part of the grille design, like this modern one:

Or this classic:

But when it’s the primary design element of the front end, it reminds me of this:

Yuck.

ETA: it seems my Kinja formatting skills suck, much like this Mercury sucking a lemon.

punkgoose17 > tapzz 06/24/2015 at 09:43

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I completely agree with your angry birds assesment. I think the headlights are what really kill the front end design. The sides and rear of the car do look good though.