Consumer Reports` two thousand seventeen Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti Basically Lives In The Dealer Service Bay
In the latest gig of Consumer Reports` Talking Cars YouTube demonstrate, hosts Jon Linkov, Gabe Shenhar, and Mike Monticello discussed the persistence with which their bought-and-paid for two thousand seventeen Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti has visited the dealer.
Only recently purchased by Consumer Reports` undercover team, the fresh Alfa Romeo Giulia has hardly been able to go through Consumer Reports` testing.
“It`s a sexy car,” Shenhar says in introducing the fresh Alfa. “It has a indeed storied brand name. As compelling as it might look,” Shenhar says, introducing the fresh Alfa,”I don`t know if I`m ready to send anyone to buy this car.”
“It`s been back to the dealer about three times since we bought it.”
“We have had a lot of problems,” Linkov explains. “I haven`t had the chance to get into it because it`s been at the dealer so often.”
For Consumer Reports to acquire a car that`s representative of a typical example without alerting manufacturers and dealers, CR essentially uses undercover operatives to purchase fresh vehicles. In the Alfa`s case, after lifting up the Giulia for inspection, CR discovered that a brake wear sensor was suspending liberate. The placement of the front license plate interferes with parking sensors. “The sunroof,” Shenhar says, “didn`t want to open at some point.”
Consumer Reports won`t report exclusively on the reliability of one car; the official findings are reported after survey results from as many owners as possible. “Nonetheless, this is unusual,” Shenhar says.
“I truly love driving it,” Monticello proceeds. “It is one of those uncommon cars these days that you indeed look forward to driving because it`s so sporty,” pointing to the Giulia`s treating, steering feedback, and it`s desire to tackle good roads.
“I sort of think they got the big picture right,” Monticello says, “But they got some of these minor things wrong.”
The sun visor, fiddly climate controls, poor seats, and poor seat heaters are “quirks” the CR editors could live with. But when Monticello ended his weekend with the Alfa by driving the Giulia to work on Monday morning, the Check Engine light came on.
We questioned the likelihood of Alfa Romeo Giulia ownership among TTAC`s B&B community last month when Car And Driver named the Giulia Quadrifoglio a comparison test winner. That Alfa topped the BMW M3, Cadillac ATS-V, and Mercedes-AMG C63 S, but on more than one occasion, Car And Driver`s tester died following a remote startup.
Car And Driver`s conclusion: “We are willing to overlook this hiccup.”
But if it was ever acceptable to supply an unreliable long-term tester, albeit unwittingly in this most latest case, to a major automotive publication, Consumer Reports is not the one to choose. Consumer Reports is largely unforgiving of the kind of failings that afflict actual consumers in the real world, rather than accepting the sort of faults an auto writer can tolerate during a press launch in Portugal. Expect CR to keep us apprised of faults of this specific two thousand seventeen Alfa Romeo Giulia Ti.
Alfa Romeo is the latest Fiat Chrysler Automobiles-owned brand to re-launch in North America. Four other FCA brands — Fiat, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram — packed four of the four lowest positions in J.D. Power`s latest Vehicle Dependability Probe of MY2014 vehicles.
Through the end of February, five hundred eighteen Alfa Romeo Giulias had found fresh owners in the United States, including four hundred twelve just last month.
The Giulia-related portion of the movie embarks at the 6:22 mark.