On weekdays
For a daily use a kind of this car is perfect. We can say without any exaggeration that nowadays Alfa put the most comfortable seats into this car. Well-shaped and has first class comfort. Only the 159 TI’s seats are up to the GT’s seats. The driving position is comfortable, and isn’t tiring on long trips.
Only two people are able to sit to the rear seats, but more wouldn’t be Alfistic, so it isn’t embarrassing that there’s no more space left. But you have to fit them for the claustrophobia in spite of the not so bad considering room. Probably during the trip they never forget, that they're sitting in a coupé.
The boot capacity could be also surprising for anti-coupé minded people:it has nearly limousine-sized boot (320 liters), and if we turning down the rear seats we could go shopping to the IKEA, the mounted TV stand will have enough place.
So it’s really a usable car, but for two persons rather than four. The effectively big and widely opening doors would raise the difficulties of getting on and off, but with this car you have to look around carefully before you start to park. The traversing of the car is only helped by our sixth sense rather than our eyes. The rounded shapes and small windows aren’t allows us correlate points. At reversing if we haven’t got parking radar, the bumper would be very fallacious because it’s far farther than we “feel” it across the window. It’s very hard to see anything in the back by the stodgy C-leg, which is able to make special traffic situations more difficult. For example it could easily hide a whole bus at a crossing.
All these are forgivable sins, but the fact, that we can’t see anything from the beautiful girl’s face who just pass us by...it clashes the car’s principle. Don’t say this to your baby, but this is a wenching car.
Its travelling comfort could match to the 156’s. It’s pretty similar, but in the GT everything is harder, sportier. The steering is heavier also and gives us more feedback from the roads. In spite of the similar suspension system GT isn’t lean or bow so much as the 156 does.
With the Q2 pack GT is quite similar from its black brother – thank to the sport suspension. It’s very interesting, that Alfa didn’t use lowering springs, moreover, they raised it a bit, but its stiffness is first class. This raising is expounded with the 18” alloy wheels. The car produces minimal bank in the corners, and responds for every movement instantly, you could easily slip it into the narrowest corners. It’s very good but is very tiring duringl the daily drive. For those who are sensitive for their back, this car isn’t a good choice, because the steering wheel and the clutch are very hard also along with the suspension.
Driving in the average inner city roads, the cruising speed could match to the semitrailer’s – the bumps which is smoothed out without any problem by the black and its 18” alloy wheels, the Q2 jigs in it’s whole body and it makes the owner to a lower speed.But on abroad the situation is quite different. The suspension shows its knowledge and gives big self-confidence to the driver. He has the right to it; the Q2 would behave as a real go-kart.
All these could sounds dredfully, but overall it isn’t as dramatic. The engineers developed the car by keeping the sportiness in mind and comfort was subsidiary, which means that driving the car is very delectable, but it needs compromises. So on weekdays the black GT has the upper edge. But on the racetrack...
