welcome to sunny slough yes sort of and in particular the thames alfa romeo jeep dealership
where today i'll be picking up my new car kind of my new car because usually with parker's cars
reviews i'll have the car for a few days or for a weekend and i'll make one video at the end of that
where i give you my impressions from the previous few days the thing is though you don't get an
experience of what it's like to live with the car over a period of a few months so that's exactly
what i'm gonna do in this case with this new car i'm gonna pick it up and i'm gonna run it for six
months and give you all the everyday impressions over a series of video diary entries just like
this one now i'm not actually buying the car as is with every parker's review and there's no money
exchanging hands and alfa romeo aren't telling me what to say it's completely impartial so
just to get that out of the way straight away the reason as i said we're doing this
is to give you that more in-depth detailed review and also because if you're in the market for a car
like an alpha male you've probably thought about an alfa romeo but you're not sure how it compares
running it every day with a bmw or mercedes-benz or an audi and you want to get an idea of what
that's like before you make the purchase so that's exactly what i'm going to do now before
we go and see exactly which car i've got please don't forget to subscribe to the parker's channel
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okay here we are 10 south romeo handover bay i've got my new car underneath the covers can't wait
to see what it looks like um you can probably guess what it is or what model it is because
alpha major only sells two models in the uk at the moment but anyway we can see what spec it
is which is the exciting part if i take the cover off here we go big reveal look at this
okay so you've probably already guessed exactly what model it is it is of course a julia but more
importantly than that it's the julia veloce and if you're not familiar with the uk trim structure of
the alpha male julia it goes sprint which is the base car it goes velocity and then velocity ti
and the good bit about the velocity is that it is sportier basically than a regular julia so
it's got a two liter four-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine with 280 horsepower 400 newton
meters of torque rear-wheel drive automatic gearbox 5.7 seconds north of 62 miles an hour
and it is basically a baby julia quadrifoglio which is one of the best super saloons you can get
so i'm really looking forward to how this drives but i just want to talk you through the individual
spec that i've picked on this car so paint color mizano blue it's an optional extra i think it
looks fantastic on this car um also different from the julia sprint is we've got the sports
front and rear bumpers which is just a bit more angular a bit more aggressive looking
19 inch wide spoke alloy wheels got the upgraded brakes as well yellow brake calipers really
look nice against the blue i think the velocity badge on the side here and also
the julia badge at the back they're blacked out nice little detail there and at the rear
rear windows that's got tinted glass which i believe as well the sprint doesn't have so that's
a little aesthetic difference but saying that by and large it does kind of look you know
pretty much the same as a julia sprint which is no bad thing because this is probably the
best looking kind of medium sized saloon you can buy for this kind of money but it's the interior
i really want to have a look at because there are a couple of things with the pre-face lift
julia which i wasn't a fan of but i want to see if they've changed it on this post facelift car
so oh this is nice as you can see i've gone for the black sports leather seats could have had red
sports leather but i thought that probably a bit much especially with the blue exterior paint and
well it's just the same pretty much as sitting in the pre-phase lift with a couple of differences
which i can already see but i just love the details in here there's for a start the gear shift
paddles which probably doesn't sound much but on a car like this it's a major touch point and so many
manufacturers they don't get it right because they make them feel plastic and cheap and just nasty
really and you don't enjoy changing gear nothing like that on the julia big metal paddle separate
from the wheel really nice click to them massive fan of that um the monochrome alpha mayo badge
which is a really nice badge on the steering wheel start stop button on the steering wheel that feels
really sporty this italian flag down by the gear lever gives you a reminder of where this car was
developed and built and talking of the gear lever now anyone who's driven or owned a pre-facelift
stelvio or julia will know that there was a really nasty seam on the back where the plastic joined
and it was really sharp and just didn't feel very nice at all and it kind of let down the whole
quality of the interior this time yeah they've changed it on the post facelift model it's got
this leather back gear lever which feels really high quality nice bit of stitching that's going
to be a huge improvement also note that the infotainment system has also been upgraded it
was probably never the car's strongest point i'm not sure they would have overhauled it completely
but it just needed a few tweaks just to make it a little bit more up-to-date when it's compared
with for example it's german rivals so yeah looking forward to using that finally optional
extras on this car i've kept them to a minimum because the spec on the velocity is actually very
good i mean for example you get six-way adjustable electrically adjustable with three memory function
passenger and driver seat which for a standard feature on a car which costs around forty thousand
pounds is very impressive and it gives you an idea of the standard kit you get but i'm gonna
have to refer to my notes here the optional driver assistance plus pack that is fitted to this car
has automatic high beam assist lane keep assist highway assist system traffic sign recognition
traffic jam assist active blind spot assist driver attention assist electrochromic i think that's how
you say rear view mirror and intelligent speed control and all of that costs just a thousand
pounds which considering how much extra kit you're getting i think on paper sounds like a pretty good
deal but i will find out as i drive this car more whether it's worth it and whether you should spend
that extra money on getting it um together with the mizano blue paint which i think was a 700
pound optional extra this car comes in at 42 745 pounds and again in a later video i'll tell you
how much that is on pcp so if you're paying for it monthly and i'll also factor in the fuel costs
the insurance costs the tax if you're running this car through years two and three because
obviously the taxes included in the first year um servicing everything else basically so that you
can get a monthly price for how much you could put this car and run it on your driveway for
that'll be in a later update for now though that's about it i wanted to introduce the car to you i
wanted to explain what the spec is because that's always interesting and i wanted to go through
exactly what i'm going to do with this car over the next few videos and that's going to
be an awful lot because as i said i'm going to be running it as if it were my own car i'm going to
cover the technology well that's like with every day the practicality engine handling the rivals
to this car from other manufacturers also other julia's in the range gonna cover all of that and
hopefully there'll be a few surprises along the way as well now all of this is going to be on the
parker's cars youtube channel that you're watching now and it's also going to feature on the parker's
dot code uk website in written form on the alfre mayo julia review so keep an eye out for that
any questions you've got about this car or things you want to know or things you want to recommend
that i should talk about for future content ideas then please let me know in the comments
box below or get in touch on my social media channels which are in the description box
you know i always love talking about cars so any message is welcome as long as it's nice um
but yeah the next video will be out in around four weeks time and all that leaves me to do
now is actually say that i'm gonna take this for a drive i can't wait and i'll see you next time
you