anybody on here an alfa romeo fan? i was coming home yesterday had a 159 jts sportwagon come up behind me at around 120kph(~72mph). the speed limit opened up, and i floor it in sixth. this thing stayed with me all the way to 260 (~150mph), then i started to slowly open up a gap. i looked on the alfa site and this thing has a six cylinder w/260hp and weighs rougly the same as an s4. anybody know what kind of tunning can be done to one of these? i was quite impressed by its ability to stay right with me, especially if it was stock (no specific markings on the car, but no one puts crap on their cars over here anyway).

 

love them but only know stuff about the older ones like 33's, gtv's, 105's. At the local track down hereevery now and then u see the v6 gtv's beatnewish porsches. if the electrics hold up they usually go pretty good

 

I'm a BIG Alfa fanatic, but they haven't yet returned to the land of wide open spaces (between drivers' ears) yet. I can tell you that, aside from the pull Alfa engines seem to have molded into them, they tend to be geared perfectly for their torque curve. I had an Alfetta Quadrifoglio (maybe THAT'S what you were up against?) with a 2.0 4-banger that felt like a V6. Between teh mota and teh tranny it was one sweet sedan. Useta phugk wit 3-ers all the time. Even the 325's backl then cudn't out run me, and once we got to the top end I'd out-leg them, slowly but surely.

Check the specs for the Quadrifoglio models, that's Alfa's version of BMW's ":M" or Audi's "S" line.