My daughter's 78,000 mile 1.6. It's her second one off ebay (her husband is good at that stuff, and cars too). But she crashed the first one - it may have been the van driver's fault, but we'll never know now - and immediately got this one with lower mileage and more sensible wheels and tyres, the first one having low profile big rims.
I did about 100 miles in it this lunch-time, from her house on Surrey/Sussex border to Heathrow, then back here to West Sussex. It's quite a nice little car I have to say, with black leather inside and nice blackish metallicish paint. The gear selector springs have gone so gearchanges are a bit slow and iffy until you get used to the pudding-stirrer. And it isn't of course all that quick, although it is quite low geared so starts to make an urgent sort of noise before 70mph in top gear. I didn't get it over 90 but there's obviously 15 or 20mph more to come, if you want to hear it yelling.
What a pleasure though to be riding on a driver's chassis after my Chrysler. The little Alfa is so much easier and more reassuring to wind rapidly through the twisties that it would certainly be quicker than the 2 litre, no-slouch Chrysler over mixed A-road going.
My daughter says she gets 31.5 mpg average. That could certainly be bettered, but Alfa twin cams are quite thirsty and this car is quite low geared. Cute little thing which I will have for a couple more days.
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