re: alfa diesels

[Vilejidiot@domain.elided]

Ok, I feel the need to weigh in here.

200 lbs.

Oh, wait. uhhh... actually I had the pleasure of driving a 146 1.9JTD for 
three days last summer (from Belgium to the Nurburgring and back). I would 
have to agree with John Griffith in his comments about the 2.4 JTD. 
Surprisingly good power (but you really had to get your foot in it or it 
wouldn't take off) and a wide power band. The noise of the thing was the only 
detraction. If you were closer to being deaf than I am you might not even 
know the difference! (Mabel, it sounds like this damn thing is pinging...is 
it? What? I can't hear ya honey.) Drove more like a gas engine than any 
diesel I've ever driven (I won't even admit which cruddy oilburners I used to 
own). Still, I wouldn't own one but they sell like handguns at a school in 
Belgium and italy and france... Us provincial Amuricuns keep furrgitin' how 
good we have it with fuel prices.... So on your wages as a boulanger you can 
afford to buy a Renault diesel or an Alfa diesel... which one ya gunna buy? 
Rrrrright!

Michael Williams
Secretary, DSARC
Sacramento, California US of A
69 non-diesel car
83 non-diesel car
84 non-diesel car

http://www.rcip.com/michael

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