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Old 02-05-2019, 12:28 AM   #11
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I was happy that the Alfa I rented in Germany was the 'regular' 6 speed.

I really liked the one I had. If they'd bring the diesel over here - that would be an interesting car. And one I'd consider. I think I got mid 30's in my time with it.
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Old 02-05-2019, 06:20 AM   #12
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Really great write up ... this car sounds like a really fun one, looking forward to your experiences with it !!
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Old 02-05-2019, 09:03 AM   #13
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I would buy the Spider before this car. But, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
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Old 02-05-2019, 09:08 AM   #14
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I would buy the Spider before this car. But, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
I love the look, but no way I would pass on a Cayman or Boxster for it.

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Old 02-05-2019, 10:55 AM   #15
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Glad you're loving the car!!! I hope they fix the brake issue though.

I'm reading up on it and found this article.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/car...brake-by-wire/
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A conventional braking system can go from zero braking force to full lock in 300 milliseconds, while Alfa’s IBS can accomplish the feat in 100 milliseconds thanks to the brake booster. This translates into shorter stopping distances in an emergency brake application.
200 milliseconds? At 60 mph that is admittedly 17.2 feet, so I guess that's significant. But compared to the the human's overall reaction time it's so tiny.

Oh, and in other news, every time I see the name of your car I think of this. Now you do too.

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Old 02-05-2019, 11:05 AM   #16
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Oh, and in other news, every time I see the name of your car I think of this. Now you do too.

Haha. I overheard my wife, admittedly maybe the most non-car person you will ever meet, tell someone on the phone that I bought an Alfred Romero Ghoul-ee-ya. True story.

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Old 02-05-2019, 11:51 AM   #17
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I would buy the Spider before this car. But, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
Does the Spider offer anything over the ND2

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200 milliseconds? At 60 mph that is admittedly 17.2 feet, so I guess that's significant. But compared to the the human's overall reaction time it's so tiny.
Is it really that tiny? I thought I remember seeing or hearing human normal reaction time was about half a second, but Googling says the average human reaction time to visual stimulus is 0.25 seconds.

It's not just 17.2feet at 60mph, but the potential reduction of speed before an impact. Someone with stronger math skills than me can figure out if the speeds in this example work out, but if you're traveling at 60mph and the booster gets you down to 20mph before you hit something, that impact is likely to be much more survivable with less chance of injury, and less damage than if you were only down to 25mph.



But it sounds like they need to fix the mapping. Maybe one in every 10,000 brake applications do we wish we we had/used significantly more brake on initial application? 30,000? And we rarely intend for more than slight application at onset anyway.

There were some pretty unpleasant DBW throttles early on when they didn't have linear mappings (set aside off throttle/rev hang characteristics). Some are pretty good now. Some still suck.
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Old 02-05-2019, 12:06 PM   #18
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Haha. I overheard my wife, admittedly maybe the most non-car person you will ever meet, tell someone on the phone that I bought an Alfred Romero Ghoul-ee-ya. True story.


I also love the fact that since I got to meet her I can actually picture her saying this
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Old 02-05-2019, 12:18 PM   #19
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I also love the fact that since I got to meet her I can actually picture her saying this
Then you can also imagine her, 1) referring to my previous car as a "circle car", and 2) at the 'mudgeons party at JVs, she asked me why everyone was just standing around the cars talking for so long. I explained to her that that's what we'd been doing for over 15 years. Her response was, "Aren't you done yet?"

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