Alfa's in the USA

I heard they were coming back, but I passed a 4C on the highway yesterday. Are they already selling here? Through what dealers?

Through Fiat Dealerships

In reply to bravenrace:

Fiat ones. We have an Alfa dealer in Ann Arbor, now. I'm tempted to take my race car over there to let them show it off. They have shown some old 500's.

We even got a notice back in January that their first 4C came to town.

I so wish the new 124 was actually an Alfa as it was going to be a few years ago. It would be on my very short list of new cars to get. It may be odd, but I'm not as interested in a Fiat. (not that I'm that excited about new Alfas, but that one would have been cool)

Our local Fiat dealer has sold three here in Little Ark, Rockinsaw. They say they sent the white one to California for "a friend of Roger Penske's son."

In reply to bravenrace:

There was a red 4C at the Norwalk Dragway Autocross earlier this summer. I made friends with the owner and got a ride-a-long with him on one run. The owner was from somewhere Cleveland-ish.

Our local Fiat dealer has been bringing a few to the Cars & Coffee at the Mall. With about 3000 cars present, you have to be really different to stand out. Looks very similar to my Elise but without the access issues.

In reply to whenry:

Having been in both a 4C and an Elise, the 4C had some more interior room but not a whole lot more. Though egress into the 4C is somewhat better I would say it is very similar to the difficulty of an Elise. Far more difficult than say getting into a C4 Corvette.

In reply to JohnRW1621:

I forgot about that one. Might be the same car. It looks the same. Did his license plate say "alfa 4c"?

I do not know about the plate and I have no other pictures that might show the plate.

I do remember that from the rearview mirror, he had a country flag hanging.
I honestly can not remember which country but I think it was Israel.

In reply to JohnRW1621:

I couldn't see inside well enough to know if that was in there or not.

I saw one of the later production Alfa Spyders this weekend (a '90 or '91 I think) and I wonder if you took one to an Alfa dealership if they could work on it or not.

drdisque wrote: I saw one of the later production Alfa Spyders this weekend (a '90 or '91 I think) and I wonder if you took one to an Alfa dealership if they could work on it or not.

I imagine they would wonder where to plug in the diagnostic reader so the car could tell them what needed to be fixed.

drdisque wrote: I saw one of the later production Alfa Spyders this weekend (a '90 or '91 I think) and I wonder if you took one to an Alfa dealership if they could work on it or not.

Funny.

But all seriousness- many of the current mechanics out there are factory repair shops. So more than likely, the dealer will tell them to go to those guys.

chuckles wrote: Our local Fiat dealer has sold three here in Little Ark, Rockinsaw. They say they sent the white one to California for "a friend of Roger Penske's son."

You know you are awesome when your kid's friends are famous.

I have an air flow computer in my lab that is about 13 years old. It went on the fritz, so I called the company that made it for tech support. Their answer? "Nobody here knows anything about that model. You'll have to buy a new one". I did. From their competitor. But I don't think they were just giving me a line. We went back and forth several times, and it was clear that whoever knew anything about that "old" technology was no longer there. I imagine it's the same with cars at some point, and it's only going to get worse as time goes on and vehicles progress.

In reply to bravenrace:

In all seriousness, would you take your classic Mustang to a current Ford dealer for repair?

The last Alfa sold in the US was 1995, and the sum of the last 3 years of sales was easily less than 2000 cars. It's not the end of the world abandoning whatever cars remain from those few years. The last Spider sold in 1991. All of those owners have found places to take their cars, many of which are backed by Alfa Romeo. Just stick with them.

In reply to alfadriver:

I wasn't arguing the point. Just lamenting that things seem to move so fast anymore that there often seems to be a lack of knowledge base to repair things that are still within a reasonable service life. BTW, my classic mustang is so simple (and remarkably reliable) that I never need to take it anywhere for repair, but I get your point.

alfadriver wrote: In reply to bravenrace: Fiat ones. We have an Alfa dealer in Ann Arbor, now. I'm tempted to take my race car over there to let them show it off. They have shown some old 500's. We even got a notice back in January that their first 4C came to town. I so wish the new 124 was actually an Alfa as it was going to be a few years ago. It would be on my very short list of new cars to get. It may be odd, but I'm not as interested in a Fiat. (not that I'm *that* excited about new Alfas, but that one would have been cool)

I would be more exited by the Fiat 124 if it was a throwback to this instead:

kanaric wrote:

alfadriver wrote: In reply to bravenrace: Fiat ones. We have an Alfa dealer in Ann Arbor, now. I'm tempted to take my race car over there to let them show it off. They have shown some old 500's. We even got a notice back in January that their first 4C came to town. I so wish the new 124 was actually an Alfa as it was going to be a few years ago. It would be on my very short list of new cars to get. It may be odd, but I'm not as interested in a Fiat. (not that I'm *that* excited about new Alfas, but that one would have been cool)

I would be more exited by the Fiat 124 if it was a throwback to this instead:

While the worst handling (in stock form) that is my favourite body style for the 124

mad_machine wrote:

kanaric wrote:

alfadriver wrote: In reply to bravenrace: Fiat ones. We have an Alfa dealer in Ann Arbor, now. I'm tempted to take my race car over there to let them show it off. They have shown some old 500's. We even got a notice back in January that their first 4C came to town. I so wish the new 124 was actually an Alfa as it was going to be a few years ago. It would be on my very short list of new cars to get. It may be odd, but I'm not as interested in a Fiat. (not that I'm *that* excited about new Alfas, but that one would have been cool)

I would be more exited by the Fiat 124 if it was a throwback to this instead:

While the worst handling (in stock form) that is my favourite body style for the 124

Yes, it is a very attractive car IMO. I hope fiat makes some form of coupe with this Miata chassis that is retroish like their 500 is but i'm probably asking for something that won't happen.