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Post by racingteatray on Apr 11, 2024 12:44:02 GMT
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Post by johnc on Apr 11, 2024 14:08:31 GMT
It does look good although without the grill I would have thought it was a Renault.
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Post by PetrolEd on Apr 11, 2024 14:40:07 GMT
I tend to love anything with an alfa badge, it looks pretty good, don't hate the grille but I really hate where the future of Alfa Romeo looks to be headed.
"the Milano was designed to help the brand go "from exclusive to inclusive"." Yuk
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 11, 2024 16:34:59 GMT
It amuses me this Italian thing of naming cars after their home cities and getting away with it - Ferrari Modena, Alfa Milano.
The Jaguar Coventry just wouldn't quite have the same ring. I suppose Vauxhall did do the Luton, but that was appropriately enough a van.
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Post by Big Blue on Apr 11, 2024 16:40:50 GMT
Morris Oxford…..
Although that was intended to express the grandeur of a University City along with its stablemate, the Austin Cambridge.
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Apr 11, 2024 16:45:08 GMT
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Post by Roadrunner on Apr 11, 2024 16:45:08 GMT
Other than the grill I quite like that. I enjoyed driving the Tonale we hired in Italy last year and not being a fan of the latest models from MINI I could be tempted.
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Post by Martin on Apr 11, 2024 17:11:27 GMT
I don’t like the grille either, but it’s the only way you’d know it was an Alfa Romeo, they’ve even put the number plate in the right place!
It’s a pretty dull thing. If I had to have a small EV, it would be an Alpine A290 or Renault 5 if they stick too many ‘sporty’ bits on the Alpine.
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 11, 2024 19:04:17 GMT
Morris Oxford….. Although that was intended to express the grandeur of a University City along with its stablemate, the Austin Cambridge. Ha. I'd forgotten those. It got me thinking about the possibility of a Rolls Royce Silver Sussex...but I feel the word "Sussex" has become a tad tarnished... Ford was probably wise to go for Capri over Brentwood. |
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Post by Alex on Apr 11, 2024 19:14:00 GMT
It's a shame they've dropped the offset front number plate and that grill with the embossed Alfa snake is either tacky. I could imagine a ropey 159 on a council estate having something similar.
Otherwise it look fine but will probably just be another samey samey small SUV
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Post by ChrisM on Apr 11, 2024 20:23:50 GMT
It amuses me this Italian thing of naming cars after their home cities and getting away with it - Ferrari Modena, Alfa Milano. The Jaguar Coventry just wouldn't quite have the same ring. I suppose Vauxhall did do the Luton, but that was appropriately enough a van. The TVR Unsure... does anyone know what is actually happening with TVR or is nobody interested any more? |
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Post by Tim on Apr 12, 2024 8:01:59 GMT
It looks nice enough for what it is (a small SUV I assume) but there's nothing really 'Alfa Romeo' about it is there.
If you stuck a Renault badge on the front it'd be easy to assume it genuinely was one of those small Renault SUVs I've seen a few of recently.
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 12, 2024 12:45:12 GMT
It looks nice enough for what it is (a small SUV I assume) but there's nothing really 'Alfa Romeo' about it is there. If you stuck a Renault badge on the front it'd be easy to assume it genuinely was one of those small Renault SUVs I've seen a few of recently. Quite. |
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Post by Ben on Apr 12, 2024 13:12:52 GMT
God no, that grille looks hideous. The mesh design on the blue car looks a touch better, but not by much.
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Post by Andy C on Apr 12, 2024 16:04:29 GMT
The front looks like a giant Megane
If I had to have this type of car , it would be this , just because it’s an Alfa
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 12, 2024 17:46:22 GMT
It amuses me this Italian thing of naming cars after their home cities and getting away with it - Ferrari Modena, Alfa Milano. The Jaguar Coventry just wouldn't quite have the same ring. I suppose Vauxhall did do the Luton, but that was appropriately enough a van. Ferrari have gotten away with building a legendary brand using a surname that translates as “Smith”. Imagine a Smith California, Smith GT, Smith 348 etc |
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Post by Big Blue on Apr 12, 2024 18:57:13 GMT
Never forget the composer Guiseppe Verdi has his British counterpart in the English big-band leader Joe Green.
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Post by ChrisM on Apr 13, 2024 6:41:29 GMT
... or as the late great Ray Moore used to say, the singer Elizabeth Swartzkopf translates as Betty Blackhead
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Post by rodge on Apr 13, 2024 9:26:13 GMT
Morris Oxford….. Although that was intended to express the grandeur of a University City along with its stablemate, the Austin Cambridge. Ha. I'd forgotten those. It got me thinking about the possibility of a Rolls Royce Silver Sussex...but I feel the word "Sussex" has become a tad tarnished... Ford was probably wise to go for Capri over Brentwood. Maybe they need to release an Electric Essex to go along with it? Along this line of thinking, I reckon Morris missed out by not releasing a car called the Morris Grimsby. |
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Post by Big Blue on Apr 13, 2024 11:08:47 GMT
It amuses me this Italian thing of naming cars after their home cities and getting away with it - Ferrari Modena, Alfa Milano. I note there are cries that the car is illegally called “Milano” as it is built in Poland and connot bear a name suggesting it is an Italian product. |
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Post by Martin on Apr 13, 2024 11:43:25 GMT
Alfa Tychy doesn’t quite work!
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Post by Martin on Apr 15, 2024 16:58:55 GMT
So, Milano no longer and not Tychy either, but not far off….  The Alfa Romeo Milano was revealed just last week as the Italian marque's very first pure electric vehicle, but it seems the Italian government wasn't too keen on its name. As a result, the new compact SUV has been renamed entirely to 'Junior' before the first cars had a chance to hit the road.
In an official press release, Alfa Romeo confirmed that despite the firm believing the Milano name met all legal requirements, a government official declared the use of the Milano name illegal. The logic behind this ruling is that the new model will be produced in Poland, contravening a law that prohibits the sale of products with Italian-sounding names that aren't produced in Italy.
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 15, 2024 17:08:10 GMT
So, Milano no longer and not Tychy either, but not far off…. The Alfa Romeo Milano was revealed just last week as the Italian marque's very first pure electric vehicle, but it seems the Italian government wasn't too keen on its name. As a result, the new compact SUV has been renamed entirely to 'Junior' before the first cars had a chance to hit the road.
In an official press release, Alfa Romeo confirmed that despite the firm believing the Milano name met all legal requirements, a government official declared the use of the Milano name illegal. The logic behind this ruling is that the new model will be produced in Poland, contravening a law that prohibits the sale of products with Italian-sounding names that aren't produced in Italy. The current Italian government isn't quite as batshit as ours (things you never imagined you'd write, huh?), but it isn't far off. Melons herself is quite a smart operator, but she's got some proper nutters in her party (not to mention in her coalition partner, Lega, led by Matteo "Putin Fanboi" Salvini) and she has to keep them on side with this sort of tabloid stuff. Plus it must be said that Italians have noticeably cooled on Fiat and associated brands ever since it become Stellantis and b*ggered off to pay its taxes in Luxembourg, which did cut through with the Italian public and generally went down like a bucket of sick. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 15, 2024 19:31:13 GMT
Well, I quite liked the Milano, bit non plussed with the Junior.
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Post by Tim on Apr 16, 2024 7:28:03 GMT
Well, I quite liked the Milano, bit non plussed with the Junior. Junior is a name long associated with Alfa but, as usual with car brands, here it is being sullied by being associated with a bland, identikit, heavy (undoubtedly) EV. |
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Post by PetrolEd on Apr 16, 2024 8:51:54 GMT
So, Milano no longer and not Tychy either, but not far off…. The Alfa Romeo Milano was revealed just last week as the Italian marque's very first pure electric vehicle, but it seems the Italian government wasn't too keen on its name. As a result, the new compact SUV has been renamed entirely to 'Junior' before the first cars had a chance to hit the road.
In an official press release, Alfa Romeo confirmed that despite the firm believing the Milano name met all legal requirements, a government official declared the use of the Milano name illegal. The logic behind this ruling is that the new model will be produced in Poland, contravening a law that prohibits the sale of products with Italian-sounding names that aren't produced in Italy. I gotta say, I quite respect the Italian government for that one. If you can't call fizzy wine Champagne then you can't call a Polish built Peugeot a Milano. It triggers the Daily Mail reader in me. |
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Post by cbeaks1 on Apr 16, 2024 11:32:06 GMT
Those bastards at Capri Sun have been getting away with it for decades.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Apr 16, 2024 20:13:42 GMT
Those bastards at Capri Sun have been getting away with it for decades. Never mind them, what about Ford with their Cortinas, Granadas, and Capris. They even named the Escort and Fiesta after a couple of Jazz mags FFS. Not a minge to be seen between them. |
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Post by racingteatray on Apr 16, 2024 22:02:32 GMT
Those bastards at Capri Sun have been getting away with it for decades. Never mind them, what about Ford with their Cortinas, Granadas, and Capris. They even named the Escort and Fiesta after a couple of Jazz mags FFS. Not a minge to be seen between them. But possibly quite a few mingers... |
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Post by Martin on Apr 20, 2024 8:50:44 GMT
The hybrid gets a different grille to the EV with an old AR script that looks at odds with the rest of the car imo  |
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