The Reverend Bluejeans Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Two on AT for under a grand. Here's one. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201708308803126?postcode=s89qb&sort=price-asc&advertising-location=at_cars&make=ALFA%20ROMEO&radius=1500&model=159&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&page=1 Dick Longbridge, Cavcraft, Christine and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 All the warning lights seem to have failed on that £999 Alfa 159. SiC, privatewire and The Reverend Bluejeans 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Shit. I was at the launch party at my local AR dealer.I'm feeling very old. And tired. Aston Martin, Supernaut, dome and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Colleague has an in-a-state 159 derv. He's into cars, and the 159 is the first AR he's ever owned. He can't speak highly enough of it during his couple of months of ownership so far. Long* may the reliability last. Lovely looking cars and those interiors look a decent place to be. The Reverend Bluejeans 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 At every Alfa lauch party, there is this "oh, Alfa finally has a Golf/Audi/BMW/[enter your own miserable Eurotosh here] beater!" and you go yeah, right.I bet the BMW guys really looked up and were worried there for a nanosecond when the 159 was launched, uhuh, then reverted to counting their money. The 159 did to me what each and every new Alfa Rome hitherto did to me. It goes a bit like this: The Junkman sees the new Alfa in a magazine.The Junkman, full of enthusiasm, goes to the launch party.The Junkman test drives the new Alfa.The Junkman goes home, crestfallen.The Junkman buys some old non Alfa chod. This has now been slightly changed for the first time. I just bought a P6 without being arsed to go to the Giulia launch party first. So where were we? 999 you say?But it's a godforsaken 4 banger with a DIY box, so too marginal a step up from the Beelzebub not really powered one.Please wake me up when there is one in Junkman spec available. Magnificent Rustbucket, The Reverend Bluejeans, outlaw118 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I had one when new. They're not the most amazing thing to drive but the looks and interior more than make up for it. The 2.2 pez is probably most sensible at shite money. outlaw118 and The Reverend Bluejeans 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 At every Alfa lauch party, there is this "oh, Alfa finally has a Golf/Audi/BMW/[enter your own miserable Eurotosh here] beater!" and you go yeah, right.I bet the BMW guys really looked up and were worried there for a nanosecond when the 159 was launched, uhuh, then reverted to counting their money. The 159 did to me what each and every new Alfa Rome hitherto did to me. It goes a bit like this: The Junkman sees the new Alfa in a magazine.The Junkman, full of enthusiasm, goes to the launch party.The Junkman test drives the new Alfa.The Junkman goes home, crestfallen.The Junkman buys some old non Alfa chod. This has now been slightly changed for the first time. I just bought a P6 without being arsed to go to the Giulia launch party first. So where were we? 999 you say?But it's a godforsaken 4 banger with a DIY box, so too marginal a step up from the Beelzebub not really powered one.Please wake me up when there is one in Junkman spec available. You can get them with a v6, slushbox and 4x4 system knocked up out of old biscuit tins you know? The Reverend Bluejeans and Dave_Q 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 But it's a godforsaken 4 banger with a DIY box, so too marginal a step up from the Beelzebub not really powered one.Please wake me up when there is one in Junkman spec available.Even worse, they're GM/Opel 4 bangers too. The Reverend Bluejeans and Junkman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianbmw Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 My wife's Fiat Panda clutch has literally just died, I am showing her -159s! Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk privatewire, outlaw118, The Reverend Bluejeans and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 I saw the 159 at the OGP at the Nurburgring in 2006 and brought a few brochures back for Black and White Garage, for whom I worked as an Alfa person 33 years ago. They were launched in Englandshire a while later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 My wife's Fiat Panda clutch has literally just died, I am showing her -159s! Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk A V6 I trust! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianbmw Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I'm going to say the D word Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I saw the 159 at the OGP at the Nurburgring in 2006 and brought a few brochures back for Black and White Garage, for whom I worked as an Alfa person 33 years ago. They were launched in Englandshire a while later.Black and White near Newbury? They used to have a very nice SZ there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 I'm going to say the D word Sent from my F3311 using TapatalkNo, no, Alfa V6s are just great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 The opening scenes of Quantum of Solace was the best advert Alfa could have asked for , not only as fast as a DBS but better looking and the doors didn't fall off. Although from memory a 2.0 Mpi 90 keeps up with both of them. Dick Longbridge, dave21478, brownnova and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianbmw Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 The opening scenes of Quantum of Solace was the best advert Alfa could have asked for , not only as fast as a DBS but better looking and the doors didn't fall off. Although from memory a 2.0 Mpi 90 keeps up with both of them.image.jpegOne of the main reasons for the "want" Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk NorfolkNWeigh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 Wasn't this one of the Alfas where the welding seams on the subframe, due to some amazing piece of manufacturing*, rot from the inside out? tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 They do have rotten subframes. Apparently the factory stopped production of them in the first year to sort out quality as the first cars had some quality issues.Even though the diesel is a Vauxhall engine it has one important addition in the 159. BOOST GAUGE. Adds an extra 100bhp Broadsword, Dick Longbridge and Junkman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted August 30, 2017 Author Share Posted August 30, 2017 Black and White near Newbury? They used to have a very nice SZ there. The same. Long gone now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 £305 annual VED. Why do this government like to tax things that are fun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 I'd never seen an SZ before until I saw their one, and followed it all the way to the B&W garage for a closer look. The garage was selling Fiat 500s and other small stuff last time I went past it, though I'm sure they were still selling the Alfa's up until 3/4 years back. I think the guy who used to run it when it was the Alfa place is still about, as I occasionally see the SZ at local car shows. The Alfa franchise ran from 1979 till around 1993 when the shower of shit then running Alfa GB decided to have a purge, binning all the good small dealers and replacing them with bigger dealerships that never materialised. Smart move. Octav Botnar of AFG was involved and there were a few in the North East that went belly up in months.B&W became a non franchised Alfa dealer and ran until about 2010. I think Alan Lindsay who ran the place (sales manager) retired and Darren moved on - there were only two of them in the showroom and a couple of mechanics at the end. James Wheeler whose father (Duncan iirc) owned it all used the premises for selling classic Alfa stuff for a bit but it's now just a used car place. The time will come at some point when it'll be flattened and houses built - that's very valuable bit of land. It would be a pity - I started going there in summer 1983 as a youth, cleaning cars and learning all about Alfasuds and stuff. I did weekend car sales there in 1996/7 when the 155 and 164 were still current. pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Although from memory a 2.0 Mpi 90 keeps up with both of them. image.jpegTbf the 90 was falling vertically down a cliff at the time,in a non US lack of fireball stylee... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volksy Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Just had a chap bring a Diseasal one into us. It's got a scrape down one side, and is in a nasty grey colour with red leather. It's done 139k and doesn't wear it well at all. We paid £925 for it. Drove it for a test run and it has left me decidedly underwhelmed. Crap turning circle - which I assume it inherited from the 156, Grumbly diesel doesn't suit it, and it does feel quite cheap and nasty. Shame, as for the Bond connection, I've also fancied a Black 159 for a while. IIRC they did do a Bond special edition 159Ti but these seem to hold money quite well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Having a 156 V6 Sportwagon I would want the same in 159, but there not sub grand ye...t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston Martin Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 I occasionally look at Alfa seats on eBay... Not for some weird fetish. But they're cheap and look fantastic. Especially the GT seats. A few people put leather 147 seats in classic Pandi, however I bet they weigh more than the car. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Why do people like Alfas? They have weird, buck-toothed faces and break down all the time. [Checks what website he's on] Ah, OK... as you were. chaseracer, Sigmund Fraud and purplebargeken 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Why do people like Alfas? They have weird, buck-toothed faces and break down all the time. [Checks what website he's on] Ah, OK... as you were.Not been brave enough to try an Alfa yet I've run both Ivecos and P38s as dailys in the past...There does seem to loads around in BG though, same as LagunasMaybe they're so cheap here they can be thrown away once things get terminalOff to investigate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 Wasn't this one of the Alfas where the welding seams on the subframe, due to some amazing piece of manufacturing*, rot from the inside out?... calling Danny Boy... *coat in hand.... TS John F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston Martin Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 My first car was supposed to be a red Alfa 146TI, my plan was to borrow my sisters car the next day and drive the 100 miles to see it. The online car checks came back fine, but to humour myself I googled the company selling it. Boycie was HR Owen in comparison, I still have the pics of the red beauty on my PC somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleon-Fonte Posted August 31, 2017 Share Posted August 31, 2017 The 159 is the non-thinking man's 156. Sloth in a bowl, Lacquer Peel, outlaw118 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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