Featured Alfa Romeo Appreciation Thread

I usually give new/concept designs the benefit of the doubt purely because they are well, new to our eyes & therefore strange.

But I won't be doing that with this one... it reminds me of a woodlouse (or chucky pig as they say in these parts)

 

Sounds like the basis of a new thread on regional names for things. I recall them being called cheese logs in Bristol.

 

In '97 you would have given your right arm for one. It was a real race car on the road. It was also plush with gull wing doors and all the interior trimmings...

Twin turbo 3.0 V6, weighing 1400kg, with AWD
0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds and had a top speed of 186 mph

OK the wing mirrors were questionable...

 

called slaters up my way.

 

this is interesting, i never heard a nick-name for them but an ex used to call them cheesy-bobs which is close! Maybe i even misheard this, but this itself can be the reason why similar names get to "stick". I remember the term a "botch-up" which goes back a long way, but often people would later refer to a "bodge-up" instead, maybe because it rolls off the tongue easier - who knows..

 

I’ve always known them as pill bugs

 

Cheese Logs too where I grew up in South Bucks

 

'chucky pigs' all day long in Gloucestershire... at least in my family which were originally from Somerset...

 

I know this forum (like many) is susceptible to thread drift, but I'm struggling to recognise how it has diverged into colloquialism's for woodlouse.

 

That’s rather beautiful - what model etc please?

 

That looks nothing like a woodlouse

 

Alfa_Romeo_Canguro

 

This was mine many years ago, a 3litre GTV6, had a 2.5 litre 156 before it. Very underrated cars. Most people are too scared to own an Alfa because of the reliability issues, but they really are missing out. Really good fun to drive and the V6 engine sounds amazing. Having said that, there’s an old saying “things only break when you’re using them”. Well My Alfas were the exception to that rule!. They would be working perfectly when I parked them up, but seemed to develop, what only can be described as unforeseen niggles that only became apparent the next time the car was taken out! Never had any serious problems, but a slush fund is required to keep up with the on going maintenance. Definitely worth it though!.

 

That is the little known concept car named the Alfasid

 

It does look like a prehistoric ground sloth though (see previous post).

 

For which, I think I can categorically say, there will not be a variety of county specific colloquialisms.

 

Which is Italian for "Kangaroo" and they're not a million miles away from ground sloths.