There are some automakers that just can’t escape their reputations for poor reliability. Most enthusiasts won’t expect Toyota reliability from a Land Rover and even GM has been having problems making V8s lately, and that was the thing GM did best! Now Alfa Romeo is back in the news.
As Brian reported, Alfa Romeo is essentially starting over the next generation Stelvio platform to accommodate gas engines. One reader was savage. Sklooner:
Great, this will give them time to get the reliability all sorted out.
Thomas wrote about the prices of cars on a per seat basis. Ash78:
Awesome, this is top-notch obscure, offbeat auto journalism.
Vaguely reminds me of a time we loaded up the minivan and visited a museum in Atlanta with these obscure “green car parking only” parking spots. It was a pretty empty lot, so I took one for a couple hours.
The lady at the desk noticed and asked us if we knew about the parking spot guidelines. I pointed out that we had just done 100mpg per person (25mpg with 4 people) which is technically WAY more efficient than a Prius with one person in it, which was the gold standard for green cars at the time.
She chuckled and was very gracious about it.
Adrian wrote about the new Singer’s design. PlatinumZJ:
They put a Habsburg jaw on the car? :/
The paint does look really nice though.
Finally, the feds have decided to mostly look the other way after someone tampers with emissions devices. Jay Vette:
What they do with their property shouldn’t be anyone’s business but their own. If they want to add things like wider tires, aftermarket intakes, shorter gearing, or different software after the truck has left the factory, they should be able to.
This statement only has merit when what you want to do does not unduly affect someone else. And spewing pollution into the air and making the air worse for everyone else is the very definition of affecting someone else. This is no different fundamentally than smoking cigarettes indoors and making your habit everyone else’s problem.
As the Autopian‘s resident diesel-afflicted staffer, I agree. Diesel power is awesome, but so is cleaner air, so I keep my diesels stock, emissions equipment and all.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Topshot image graphic: Alfa Romeo.
I remember walking through a hotel parking garage in Buckhead in Atlanta years ago and seeing a Jaguar XJ12 parked in a Low Emissions Vehicles Only parking sport right next to the elevator which made me chuckle.
Aww, thanks Mercedes!
Shout out to A.Barth and Drunken Wrench for the perfectly timed “16 tons” song reference in the Concrete Cadillac thread 😉
An Alpine Singer. Ahhhh the Sound of music
The snaaaaaails are alive, with the sound of music….
record scratch!
Whistle while you work! Do-da-doo-doo-da-da!
I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date, no time to say hello, goodbye, I’m late I’m late I’m late!
/sorry been spending too much time with high school show choir lately
//the world is nothing but pop mashups now
S/cargo
“Vaguely reminds me of a time we loaded up the minivan and visited a museum in Atlanta with these obscure “green car parking only” parking spots.”
I probably ought to be ashamed to say that I was well into the next paragraph before I realized that you weren’t checking out some sort of performance art installation involving the paint color of cars. But hey, this site bends one’s expectations.
It would be nice if Singer moved on to other makes and models.
“The Mazda GLC reimagined by Singer” has a nice ring to it.
oo yeah a Mazdaspeed GLC GTX would be awesome 😀
“Sorceror”, a Reliant Robin reimagined by Singer
So they can make multi-million-dollar versions of other cars too?
If I had enough money, I’d ask them about a Crown Vic.
Although, ICON might be a better choice given what they did to that Chevy Caprice a while back.
I wanted that Caprice so bad! The only change I would make, is gloss black paint instead of flat black.
Exactly the same for me. My opinion: that matte paint was not a good aesthetic choice. Personally, given that car’s look with the push bar out front, I would have gone with a very dark non-metallic blue.
That would also be a great choice. I remember Jonathan Ward saying the owner wanted flat black to be stealthy, but I think flat black draws the attention of cops, because they know you’re trying not to be seen.
Ring Brothers.
A Singer re-imagined Buick Roadmaster wagon would totally catch my eye.
I adore my ICON 26″ ratcheting breaker bar.
Oh.
That ICON.
…okay but anyway I picked up the 58″ pry bar tonight and I am PUMPED. I’ve had my eye on it for ages and they had a coupon and and and it’s going to be killer for cam-bolt-less truck alignments. As well as any personal disagreements, disputed credit card charges, trespassing, and as proxy for holding my place in, like, really long lines, as it’s effectively the size and weight of a child I could expect to perform that same function.
If I had enough money for a Singer, I’d have enough money to get a workshop and all the tools to try my own hand at restoration.
The end result would be way worse, but I’d enjoy myself more.
I bet they’d do an amazing NA or NB MX-5.
My mom had a Singer in the 80s, she made us the coolest knockoff pairs of Jams shorts with it.
My dad also tried to buy a ’77 911 in the early 90s and got laid off the exact day he had the cashier’s check in hand to deliver to the seller. Still heartbreaking to this day (because it was $14k, IIRC)