Sense and Sensibility

02-08-2010  BeeGee
Those times, when you fell in love with Alfa Romeo, have gone away. I cannot be loud and self-centered. I must not be simply the fastest, I must take care of thousands of other things. I have a task: saving lives. This demanding task cannot be other’s. So, I was trained, I inherited the best genes, and I got a proper education.
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We have not known each other, when they vivified me. They did not know but my consciousness had already been alive when my ancestors were born. Then, I was not able to do anything, just listening. How they were stepping down from those fibre-scent blueprints and how they were blinding people using their luster. I was curious, how could they give joy in everyday life, and I loved watching them while they were drawing miraculous curves on the rainy blacktops. Still I have a task.

I know, your heart does not leap, when you look at me. It is an intentional act of mine, because setting your heart on fire threatens your life. I will not take you to the clouds above and I will not help you on the road to hell, because I take care of your heart, too. That is a sensitive organ incapable tolerating huge temperature-fluctuation, once it just breaks over. I also would not like you to burn with desire. The scent of petrol mixes with the smoke of tire, and your dependency makes all of your seconds unbearable without the crazy scudding – no, I do not want this.

In a good time, they showed me the full choice to decide what I would like to be, just not to make a mistake. I have chosen enough gears to be a credible Alfa Romeo. I have got a scudetto, of course, with those extra air-inlets. As a 156 or those heroic competiziones from the golden age. But mine is nice, black and plastic – we must keep up with the times. I have got a covert door-handle and a rear window forming letter ‘V’. I have got a splaying waist, and I skulk. I do not scare anybody to death on the road. My look, which is festoons of LEDs, is glittering and passionless. You can nick me, but I will not be yours, because I must be the friend of everybody. Social capital is more than a passionate love.

I have meters starting at -90 degrees, however I do not want neither those trivial circle air-inlets nor those door-wainscoting imitating the frightening mouth of a shark. I wanted to be roomy, so I pulled a stroke, I trick with the converging lines, now, you feel yourself in a van. However I like the traditional puckering of seat, but it is much better horizontally and with sport pack.

I cannot deny the usage of quality materials, but I carefully installed them – until you reach them from your seat. There is a soft rubber lip around the fine metal insert on the dashboard. You say, it is bleak and tacky, I say, it is plastic optimised to give the best touch. I lined it toward to the upper side of the door, too. Since you would like to sit in a safe pillbox, line of the window is aloft, so you cannot rest your elbow on it.

You use the gear-stick often, so I give you soft metal to touch, you will love that. More robust, more concise, more accurate – than earlier. There is a surprising velour cover on the wheel. Just to clarify, this is a little inheritance of motorsport, your fingers cannot slip on the wheel there. Although, I used some leather to be more durable, but it is good to touch it sometimes.

You know, as a paramount, I’m always über (above). I use this word on purpose. On the championship, where I compete, the preferred official language is German. I distress them on home ground. Of course, not bloodily, not in a sanguinary way, I use community portals as a modern gentleman does.
My buttons are huge so that Swedish would be eaten up with envy. You can handle the centre console wearing mittens – control knobs of air-condition system is the biggest among manufacturers, and my other switches are rocker-typed ones (I took them from a box labeled “Retro”).
You can take not one, not two, but three bottles of soft drink into the glove compartment. There is one more place for one more bottle behind the gear-stick, so four of you can secure your refreshments.

My indicator is so cool. Of course, it is a trendy stuff, just stab softly and I blink many times. To be more accurate, I blink five times, this rate is more with 65 percent than the performance of an average car. I am very proud of this feature, even if the engine tries to make it useless – it is possible that you have already overtaken when I am just performing my fourth blink. Moreover, it is highly possible if you provoke the inner beast.