Saturday 21 June 2008

Me too


As the old wisdom claims, people from the shoe-shaped coutry are good in making two kinds of cars: very small and very fast ones. Nothing between Lamborghini and Fiat 500! So, we have another little Italian to love.
Of course, it's fashionable; loaded with curves, chrome and energy, it'll be much appreciated by the glamour Mini-buyers. It's much more modern than BMW Mini, and even sportier; when 500 of Fiat may be not real Mini competitor – this Alfa will be a serious threat. Why not to buy her?
For example, you may not like the chrome light borders. Bling is probably OK nowadays, but it looks a bit like 60-year old woman massive gold-and-ruby necklace. Being a fresh and sporty one, you just may not need a 10 kg of jewellery.
The next thing? Looking at its profile it remains somewhat of previous Ibiza. A lot of metal, not much of glass – tank solid, bullet tight. Is it OK? The genotype interchange of modern Alfas and Seats is a really absorbing matter; Seats borrowed form Alfa a lot, mostly thank to Walter de'Silva, who designed both. Now, it's the Alfa to be inspired, not an inspiration. As Italian even while copying can impress anybody, the new Alfa is surely nicer than old, hyper-fat Ibiza. When a modern musician compiles, samples and mixes – and creates a wonderful music of all these artistic thefts, would you really protest? No – we just dance and enjoy ourselves.
One can enjoy a new Alfa Mito easily. It's pretty and not avant-garde – everyone will like it. It small, but visually solid and expensive enough not to be driven by Seicento youth. When it appears, it's clear that we needed a car like this. While it has its withdrawals, hey – it will not compete for literature Nobel. It's sexy, and sex is enough in most cases. the world is just so easy, and some cars follow it. Or try to.
In Alfa, they've been producing small cars a few times, and they were not really brilliant. It's not the case with the new Mito. It's nice to have small Alfa again.

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