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Monday, October 13, 2008

Nice car, shame about the spelling

Why is it so hard to spell 'ALFA' correctly?

The Alpha 156 is as much a sports model as family car. The Italian maker seems incapable of designing one that's mere transport, injecting a special flavour into even machines that would be built as “ordinary” cars by others.
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