so maybe you've come to cars.com looking
for your third or fourth BMW 3-series
because you think that's what a sports
sedan is supposed to be like well if
that's what you're here to do imma let
you finish but first we need to talk
about this thing this is the 2017 alfa
romeo giulia it's brand-new for 2017 and
our marks alpha males return to the US
market in volume and if you're looking
for a sports sedan this year
this thing has to be on your list
because in a word it is magnificent go
let's start with the way it looks the
first up front you have the alpha male
three-sided tree logo grill it's got the
Alfa Romeo shield right in the middle
and a very traditional look on either
side of it you've got standard bi-xenon
headlamps on all models with LED running
lights and along the side you see
something interesting this is the
quadrifoglio model now quadrifoglio is
Italian for four-leaf clover and long
story short the reason alfa romeo use of
this is way back in nineteen
twenty-three one of their racing drivers
wasn't doing so hot so we painted a
four-leaf clover on the side of his car
and then he started winning races and
ever since then the portfolio model
signifies either a racing alpha male or
the top performance variant of that
model the partner folio model also
designates a special power train the
base powertrain in the new Julia is a
2-liter 280 horsepower turbocharged
four-cylinder but that's not the model
you want this is the model you want the
quadrifoglio has a 505 horsepower twin
turbocharged 2.9 liter v6 now that is
some serious power and it's a fantastic
engine straight off the showroom floor
the quadrifoglio model is a fantastic
reform around the track alpha male had a
model just like this quadrifoglio model
and set a lap record at the Nurburgring
it's basically the fastest production of
city and ever to go around the German
Nurburgring
that's faster than some dedicated to see
sports cars like the lamborghini
gallardo superleggera that's pretty
fantastic when I took mine out onto the
track i see really what the hoopla is
all about the operative word here is
balanced it has a perfect 5050 weight
distribution and that's thanks to a lot
of carbon fiber parts the hood the roof
all carbon fiber the drive shaft is
carbon fiber even on the lesser 2-liter
models the doors are aluminum so they're
trying to make it really lightweight in
order to preserve that balance and it
really does work
it feels like a lighter car than it
actually is and that balance translates
to both track performance and street
performance now most people aren't going
to take their alpha male out onto the
track which is why the street
performance is equally important and on
the Julia it's equally good
there's a little selector button inside
called the DNA button now that sounds
kind of gimmicky everybody else called a
mode selector of some kind but it
actually does stand for DNA dynamic
natural or advanced efficiency and the
quadrifoglio model there's actually a
fourth setting called race which shuts
off all the miners and can let you get
into plenty of trouble
don't use that one on the street but
selecting between natural and dynamic
actually has quite an effect natural is
totally das out you can drive the car
normally even though it's got 500
horsepower and it feels perfectly fine
but if you switch it into dynamic mode
and free weights things up the throttle
gets more responsive the steering gets
more responsive it's a fantastic driving
experience all around
this car really is best experienced from
the front seat but if you're going to be
one of those people forced to sit in the
backseat
well your luck has run out up front
there's actually plenty of room a little
on the narrow side but it's still very
comfortable as long as you don't get the
sunroof which eats out several inches
from your Headroom the biggest problem
is the backseat where I can't even sit
behind myself because my feet don't fit
into the footwell there's just not
enough room back there for most American
sighs people so if you're not dead set
on that new BMW 3-series check out the
new alfa romeo giulia the quadrifoglio
model is about seventy thousand dollars
or so and it's going to show up and show
report the end of 2016 the base model
julia and julia TI we're going to start
around forty thousand dollars and
they're going to be here early next year
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