Because, you have driven me as anybody else. My budge is vague, my turning is booby, my suspension is soft, my wheel can be steered with one finger. I do not cause any problems neither to anybody nor to the environment because I stop the engine waiting at a traffic light. Or I do not let you stop if you have problems making a move. I inform you to change one gear up, I illuminate the curve (if you order this optional service from the list), I do not let you rolling back on an uphill, and I comfort your spine after a switching. If you let me to command, my consumption is not more than any other 1400 ccm engine’s: strait seven litre is quite enough. But please, set the DNA-switch to its forward position.
In this case I take everything found in the box labeled “Sport.” A wink with the lightning of the instrumental panel, then I am enrich, harsh, cubic and filled with torque. Feel horror, you, curve. Be afraid, you, straightaway. I do it all with full vigour. Now, we are so fast that you almost sweat in your synthetic silk shirt. I override all of my mechanic units using my mind: engine control, suspension, steering, spinning wheels. Those who try to follow, come to grief. I cannot see the sense, it is just physics with some cogitation. Do not make a fuss, however, I do not let you do. I do not let the adrenalin in your blood lift to a hazardous level. It is well enough to feel your body pushing right, left, ahead, aback; and you can see that the speed is 82 instead of 80 km/h at the same place. I really know, that my seat is comfortable and spacious, but it does not support you as your previous one. You know, social capital… There are slimmer and thicker persons around the world, not just you. I must take care of them, too. I must be their friend, too.
I take the trouble to wheel to the dyno run and show the performance of my little turbo-engine with MultiAir. Which is the top-engine in MiTo QV, here is the elegant middle class. However the expected output power was lesser, I will blame it on the unusually hot summer day. Believe me, my performance is worse above 30 degree Celsius and better in cooler times.
If you are looking for adventures with adrenalin clattering in your ears or just the self-centered luxury of a masterful mechanic, I will not be your partner. As nobody will. But I am the one in 2010, who offer the space for the preprogrammed enjoyment factor. I have already had not just a heart but a mind. So, I will be the first Alfa who can live with everybody – in a calm, peaceful, long-term relationship.
Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1.4 TB MultiAir
ENGINE: 1368 ccm, Stragith-4, turbo OUTPUT POWER: 170 HP @ 5500 rpm, 250 Nm @ 2500 rpm TOP SPEED: 218 km/h ACCELERATION: 0-100 KM/H: 7,8 s PRICE: from 6.495.000 HUFs
Translated by Ferenc Pozsonyi
