this was only sold in the last month or so btw:

http://www.walkers-garage.co.uk/walkers/listings/l0016.html

are the actual structural parts of the SZ not taken from 75′s a lot though – I presume your talking about the beautiful body panels?

Waiting in great despair for the new real Alfa V6 engines….

And if anyone is able to buy the SZ, do it in an instant….its getting harder and harder to find parts each year!

I’m not into Wii Music either.Something wrong with that game.
I’m a big Mario and Zelda fan,but my favourites Nintendo games are Kirby and Mother (Earthbound in the US).

I saw the Saturn beta videos about Shenmue.Really,one of the most undersold masterpieces of all times.Sega at those day was really great,if you think about games such Space Channel Five,Rez,Jet Set Radio and many others.

I suggest you to buy Mad World if you like them.It’s really,really good one (and i’m not the type of person which usually loves violent games).

Well,about Mercedes and BMW i don’t understand either.
Italians are very conservative people usually and before to buy a foreign products (which can be cars,clothes or whatever else) they buy a local one.

I think Mercedes and BMW increased their number here during the ’90,because Fiat group at that time was really doing shitty cars and people was tired of them.
I think for the first time their market share indeed dropped under 30%

Since Sergio Marchionne is the new AD,things changed completely.
He called back people such Giugiaro or Pininfarina as designers and they start to do great cars again.
Indeed nowadays they reach again the market share they had in the ’80.
They have still to do some effort with Lancia,which need a complete relaunch (new Delta is selling quite well though) and that’s it.
I’m curious to see what’s gonna happen now with Crysler.

Oliver,really sorry for talking so much off the topic here and thank you very much for understanding! :)

yeh Shiggy is great too – although Im not that into Wii Music – Im a massive Zelda and Mario fan though – i was the second person in Ireland to get a Wii lol – queued up till 12:00 on that december 7th night :D – yeh Shenmue was incredible – did you ever see the videos of the Saturn beta that was made?

I quite like the new OutRun, but yeh nothing can match the feel of those ridiculously intense and fast sprite-scales on the System16 board :p

yeh the original 8C prototype was a lot nicer i think too. do you know what disappointed me when I was in Italy? – the amount of Mercedes and BMW’s – even in Turin and even Maranello FFS!!!- did you ever see the ‘Fulvietta’ concept? – that would have been lovely and affordable (based on the Barchetta platform) – but alas like so many of my Lancia dreams – it never came about :’( – its in the Lancia museum in Turin though which is cool – I got to see it. yeh SZ’s are cool – a 75 V6 in a fibre glass body = good fun :D

Hey G – if you want you can PM me on my myspace page and I’ll give you e-mail address and we can talk that way lol – this thread is probably bringin WordPress to its knees at this stage :p

my myspace is:

http://www.myspace.com/raytrace

I like Yu Suzuki too (althought my favourite is Shigeru Miyamoto from Nintendo).
I think Shenmue was one of the most beautiful experience i had in my life.It’s the perfect example of modern art in everything: design,music,gameplay etc etc.

I played some year ago the new Out Run,but it does not have the feeling of the old one…

I love black Alfa 159 either.My favourite i think is Alfa Brera (and 8cc).I love the design of the first one,something really cool.
Next year (i saw your wife own an Alfa 149) the new one should be out.
Yeah i like SZ/RZ’s too.

Hehe,yeah the blog has changed.:)
And after that,Fiat will release a new 500 Abarth Things to Come edition.:D

yeh in GT4 I loved the ‘Italian Street’ type level – that was great – I remeber driving the (original) cloverleaf Alfa GTA in that – amazing stuff – I took some nice pics of it and my black GTV in Venice in the game :D. Ive gone around a track here in both a 156GTA and 156GTA SW – beautiful sound – the limiter sound is incredible – there really is nothing like an Alfa V6 (even with an American bottom-end ;))

Yu Suzuki is indeed a legend :D

that Mito GTA is beautiful – although I wish the wheels were a little less sharp looking.
I have to say my fave modern alfa would probably be a black 159 Q4 SW (I love alfa estates for some reason :p)

do you like SZ/RZ’s? – there was one for sale from Walkers a while back – incredible – I love those pepperpot wheels too – as seen on many Alfa’s, Lancia 037′s and indeed the 8v/16v integrales :D

I love the new MiTo,althought many Alfisti are not so happy about that (italian alfa lovers are nuts about Brera,GT and 8cc)
The only thing is the price: in this article they says it may cost 26.000 Euro,which is a lot if compared to the normal one (which cost around 14.000 Euro).

I hope they will think carefully about that,above all since the new MiTo is selling very well here.