Got The Itch

[Guilly]

Hi all, My name is Bill and I live in the Blue Mountains. I am a member of another forum .. a forum set to support owners of vintage yamaha dirt bikes. Its a great site with lots of stuff yamaha. As far as Alfas are conconcerned i have owned 2, both for a 5 year span each......wish i still had both of them. A 79 Sud Sprint in lime green with a sun roof and an olive green 74 105 GTV, loved em both. Children came along and I moved to a quad cam 3 litre manual Vienta. A beautiful responsive engine. Well the kids hav grwn  and I want another Alfa so Ive come to you guys for help. Can anyone give me some help with decision making, I am considering a 3.2 manual 159 or a 1750 TBi 159 manual.
Cheers Bill

[Victor Lee]

Hi Bill,

Welcome to our forum!

We have owned a 159 3.2lt manual for many years since new, and only recently drove at the dealers a new 159 1750 TBi manual. (One of the last of the 159's some Victorian dealers had on that promo two months back).

The 3.2 is rated at 0-100kph at 7.0 secs.  The 1750 is listed at 7.7 secs.  But (and this is obviously subjective) our 7.0 secs feels like a SLOW 7.0 secs and the 7.7 secs feels like a FAST 7.7 secs.  If that makes sense??        The 1750 is definitely more responsive than the 3.2.    But ours is a weighty 2006 model and apparently all the 159's went on a weight reduction program in 2008, loosing 50+kgs

We would have traded the 3.2 in on the 1750 but for the no choice in colour or options, as it was the last of the stock.

But given that, I must say our 3.2 is the best Alfa that we've owned and the only problem we ever had was a simple fixed flat battery.  (I'm tapping my wooden desk as I write that!) 

[colcol]

1750 TBI Turbo, Italian motor in an Italian car or maybe the 2.4 diesel might be worth considering as it is also an Italian motor, these engines have the type of engineering General Motors bought into Fiat - Alfa..... to get their hands on, and the Turbos came out in the series 2 159 with less weight and redesigned interior to give more room, and you always buy the series 2 + 3 with Alfa Romeo, hoping that they have got all the bugs out, or at least given them a good whack on the head, Colin.