Alfa Giulietta

Surinam

Am currently looking at this:

http://www.barkshiremotors.ie/vehicles/alfa%20romeo/giulietta/dublin/1760635

Beautiful car and this engine (1.4 TB) seems to be well regarded. But am I taking too much of a gamble at 90k miles?

Anyone got experience of this model?

bear1

That's the TCT model.
Second most powerful petrol in the range and is surprisingly quite economical for what it is.
I read that the transmission can be a bit slow when changing gears but if it has the paddles then it's quicker.
Take it for a drive and test it fully. It has the dna switch so try all settings and that the blue and me works.
Other than that the usual checks.
Seems it has quite a few nice extras, if I remember correctly those alloys weren't cheap nor was the leather.

bazz26

Seems expensive to me if that's 95k miles and not 95k km.

If was paying that sort of money then I'd try and stretch to this Cloverleaf:



http://www.driving.ie/used-cars/Alfa-Romeo/Giulietta/1750-TI/2086317438098848195/

ShadowHearth

bazz26 wrote: »

Seems expensive to me if that's 95k miles and not 95k km.

If was paying that sort of money then I'd try and stretch to this Cloverleaf:



http://www.driving.ie/used-cars/Alfa-Romeo/Giulietta/1750-TI/2086317438098848195/

Thats the way I was looking at it myself too. 13k is a lot for that one, when you could wrestle your arm for the other one and get it for 16k.

Was toying with that idea, but if everything goes well, saturday after test drive I will have my new car, unfortunately it wont be alfa.

And op, there is one 1.4tb white one for sale in cork for 9.4k, 2011 or 2012. Way better value.

bear1

It's 95km, Irish car.
Personally I wouldn't go for the first production run models due to it being a new concept and potentially manufacturing flaws.
At least the 13 one is 3 years after it came out so you'd think alfa would have ironed out any issues.
It is pricey though.
The cloverleaf if you could stretch to it would be a completely different beast

ShadowHearth

bear1 wrote: »

It's 95km, Irish car.
Personally I wouldn't go for the first production run models due to it being a new concept and potentially manufacturing flaws.
At least the 13 one is 3 years after it came out so you'd think alfa would have ironed out any issues.
It is pricey though.
The cloverleaf if you could stretch to it would be a completely different beast

Thing is that cloverleaf after a few years wont drop much in price as its very rare. The 1.4tb will go down in price waaaay faster.

bear1

It's ireland and it's an alfa.
Put those two together and the prices drop like stones which is good news for those looking for an exciting car.

biko

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCcbLDul5DI
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Surinam

Thanks all, test drove both this weekend.

The Clover was a beast (!) alright but something tells me it may need a lot more maintenance? White 1.4 was very nippy too and a lot of fun (even though it's an automatic) - pity about the rain, plenty of wheel spin off both

1.4 comes with a 12 month "premium" warranty but only via some crowd called carprotect.ie so that may not be worth much. Clover comes with 6 month dealer warranty but they will consider a 12 month and get back to me.

Interior of 1.4 was less loved (glove box fell off!) but they have promised to fix the niggles I spotted).

Clover interior was spotless enough but a lot of rust in wheels and they will be getting some paint rebuffed on rear door.

Both dealers have promised to do a full refurb of alloys before sale.

Clover is a full Irish vehicle but 1.4 was from UK originally (service book attached, seems to have been all over the place).

Any thoughts? Both made me smile the entire time but the sound from the Clover was special

I will be getting both looked at by more knowledgeable person than me anyway.

Surinam

Can't post photos over 4mb, thanks Boards.

Surinam

Another thing to add is that the white 1.4 seems to be one model year newer e.g. little things like having an extra usb port and speakers also sounded different (slightly better) but I know I shouldn't be buying a car like this for its radio!

bear1

Clover. No question.

whippet

I know that cloverleaf ... and I know it has been well minded ... it's a peach !