Chris Harris Drives... Best of Practical Performance: Tesla Model S, Nissan GT-R | Top Gear

The Nissan GTR r35 is now officially an old car, but tell me it still doesn't have a presence. Power is now up to 565 horsepower thanks to revised ignition timing and increased boost pressure. On the outside there are many small aerodynamic tweaks that would use lift and I think the attractive interior has many changes that help negate the aging process, but the GTR now feels old next to the latest German rivals, but never underestimate these things, They have the habit of always surprising you. This one is also very, very bronze and I. Pretty much like that, have you ever tried driving a Nissan GTR slowly on public roads?

It's really very difficult because I don't know many cars that incite you like Godzilla, he just wants to go fast all the time, this car is almost eight years old now, the increases for the 2017

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year are not that significant, there is a little more power and I think a foot more talks, it looks a little different than it is a little more effective and it looks better inside, but the great news is that they have softened the car a little bit, so now the standard suspension mode is really quite flexible and they have made the car much quieter inside a ski, call it NVH, that's noise, vibration and harshness and frankly, whereas the old gt-r for me was a pain in the ass. the neck that a car did not want to live with on long trips, this one is now really comfortable, that's right, it is a slightly soft GTR and I like that because I am also a little softer, it is very good to drive the GTR in these beautiful open Roman roads, but we really need to take it on a circuit, a skill that's all about for me, the GTR has always been a bit of an enigma because people talk about its straight line

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, that's what it's famous for, isn't it? do you need a chip? give it a thousand horsepower and look it does nothing 200 in about four and a half seconds and it's quite a party trick and it was the first of the modern generation of twin turbo sports cars with dual clutch transmission this thing was eating 911 turbos in 2007 2008, almost nine years old, I drove one of these incredible cars for the first time; this one now has 565 horsepower and a little more torque and it had some aerodynamic tweaks and I think they've done something really great with the ride comfort, like I said in the On Road it's now more usable and the MBH is better, so it doesn't hurt your ears, but on a track the enigmatic quality for me is that the chassis is so interesting, this is a four-wheel drive vehicle that is so clever that it tries to juggle torque. to make you go fast and therefore throws it back and forth and sometimes fights the driver and I've always found it a lot of fun going into battle with the fragile GTR and now today it's nice and slippery and I instinctively find myself being a Wally .

I don't care about lap times, what I care about is trying to put the thing at silly angles and see how he wants to respond when he wants to throw, talking about what I can do to work with it, sometimes it goes against him and everything. The philosophy. of the GTR is so completely crazy that I once attended a lecture given by Mizuno-san, the father of this big Lou, in person, ready to chatter as if someone had crazy ideas about the dynamic attributes of the vehicle and what mattered, for For example, I wanted mass, the fact that this thing weighs.

As for the moon, it is not an accident, he felt that the mass gave him traction because it helped carry the sleepers to the service of the road and the only thing that this car does not lack is its traction on the road, it is incredible and, of course the differentials and the way they configured the chassis, which means it hides its mass on the circuit very well. He shouldn't be able to do the things he does. Someone weighs as much as the BMW 5 Series. It's a huge vehicle, but it feels so agile. Isn't the steering that fast? but I love to drop, I really do, so let's go into a corner and see what happens, we give it a can of gas, it's almost just rear wheel drive and then I hit the gas, it

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it straight, here we go, it's an example of such a big accelerator. big steering, no gas, it straightens out the moment you step on the accelerator pedal, it just moves and then you have this incredible feeling of the bow rising and those sticky Dunlops taking the

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out of what is a wet surface of a way that I think no other car can match and then there's the sound, it has a really distinctive sound from the inside and outside, a kind of rush of air, like it's doing something, it's almost changing the molecular structure of the air coming in. , which makes it also incredibly, deeply, the transportation of a vehicle.

Sometimes people have accused us of being a little Japanese, a little bland, boring and lacking personality. I can't think of any car that has more personality when idling, it clicks and grinds and when you start from a standstill it makes all sorts of strange noises and purrs and hisses and hums and I love it. I can't believe he's so old. In reality, of course, you can also drive it in a straight line, at which point you'll be surprised by the level of grip it has. You can pull this new suspension a little softer. I think it helps because it gives you a little more error.

I'm willing to do it. Maya has a chance to work better on the bumps, but the braking progress is fantastic. The engine continues to pull a little angularly. top end now than it used to be and it's still generating fantastic awareness, it's a really very fast car. I mean, you can combine this with all of your last metal and if you're still there or there normally at this point, we take all of this. Gubbins brought out the onboard camera, we recorded it and then I get out and we try to slide around the corners to get the exterior shots, but it matches what I'm saying inside the car, but the GTR is a challenge I want.

I'm leaving this running today so you can see the process of trying to get it working, but to be honest with you, I don't know what's going to happen. I could roll over the corner the first time in third

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at 70 80. miles per hour and I could understeer in a straight line or I could do it right and I could oversteer. What we want is a plate of Lomas, so obviously we make a couple of straight passes, but trying to shake the car we don't know if it's going to try to straighten out too quickly, that's what I love.

Some people find it frustrating, but I don't really know what it's going to do and you have to respond quickly if you do this wrong when it happens. so you have to call this city and say sorry, okay, this is the first part of the laboratory, now we have two third, fourth year, stay to see the photo now, please understand and amen, it will be quite big there, like this than the next one. This time around, I'll probably take off a little bit of speed, add a little more steering angle on entry and be more brutal in that weight transfer, like in the background because the GTR's aluminum drive system, Stasi, will give you powerful oversteer and will allow you to take off. oversteer too to hit them both which is more common the novel was very strange in the dark a man let's back up a little there she straightened up and went back to work so I want that consistent slide I got it I said it's .

It became a little drier than the last few minutes. I know what I need to do is when we get a little bit more speed going and then we can get that nice, consistent slide that's going to give you that full shot that we're looking for, speed is your friend. When it comes to rolling, go, she goes, there, she goes. Bank power, look everywhere. I'm hitting about 75, leaving at 90 miles per hour and a dry track on the way out. I love my car, so alive, check it out. Look at it from the outside and see how it looks.

It's going to look fantastic because there are leaves and a slippery nursery and there's something dry on the way out. I didn't need him to sputter, I just need to look in slow motion at a car I've never seen. I previously shot a film in a Tesla Model S but today I have the fast one, the P 100 D and suddenly more analog to drag it. I'm sitting in a Tesla Model S for the first time in a long time, I've actually only ever done one of these before. I've slightly chosen to ignore the whole Tesla thing because it scares me and I don't like them very much, but today we have a P 100 D because everyone has been telling me I have to drive one.

Unbelievable, it's so fast, so we're here in Bruntingthorpe to go fast. I have no idea how it works, so off camera, it's my boss Charles Turner who's going to tell me how to turn it on. Charles, go and press the controls button. controls button here we go, well, the first thing we should do is wow, yes, the battery is in good condition, so if you press the maximum battery power button in ridiculous mode, Ludacris did Ludacris did is up there, below, press that, yes, I'm going to do my exposure to the maximum battery power, yes, that's it, get rid of that, yes, the next thing you need to do is activate Ludacris plus Easter Egg.

You need to press and hold the Ludacris icon in the unit settings for five seconds and select yes, bring it. press Ludacris or five seconds right now, what should I do, yeah, so I have a Lightspeed, it looks like the Millennium Falcon going into light speed, it says here, are you sure you want to push the limits? This will cause accelerated wear of the engine,

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box and battery. They offer me no, I want my mom to double me or yes, bring it, yes, bring it, it is heating up and it is estimated that it is ten minutes for it to warm up, very simple, so yeah, it's not the kind of thing that just turns that on in Battersea at the traffic lights.

No? No, we're going to do a drag race. What would you do a drag race against? I drag race against a modern performance icon who doesn't necessarily want to go that fast in a straight line. on its own other words require some input from the driver, they didn't gentlemen I give you the 911 oh my lord okay the zero to 100 miles per hour challenge is over and the 911 is absolutely roasted. Sorry, I couldn't talk without Really, first time doing that. Wow, it explodes offline. I mean, and I can see why people are so addicted. Oh, that's so funny.

Okay, I'm being a little quiet and contemplative because I haven't experienced that kind. of acceleration in the form of a saloon before, but my criticism of the Tesla Model S and the variation of its

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s is that I think they are one-trick ponies and I also think that acceleration in the modern era is more than just going from zero to 100 I want to know if this thing is fast from zero to 150, it's absurd, can it get the head up to the 150 mile per hour challenge? That's 110 and he's set me now, he's paying me a hundred and twenty and he's coming against me. 130 he's coming back at me 140 he's coming back at me at 150 miles an hour and he's outpacing the 911 our 450 I wasn't expecting that slight change of plan here that Neil won't like I want to drive the 911 because I have I have this whole feeling I can do it I can get it a little closer little else and I want to see what this thing looks like from the other car I want to see what you know, a two tongue 14 car that does zero to 60 in two points seven seconds looks wow, so Charles had to go cool the battery, seems to have a very narrow operator window, it's the two hearts that called.

I had an aunt like that one time I never got the temperature right, it's always too hot or too cold, give me a glass of water, dear, okay, there's some water to cool down, oh, I'll cover you, that's the Tesla Model S like my aunt, okay, so here we go from zero to 150 miles per hour, look at it, so nothing one hundred and one. One hundred and ten, I'll catch him one hundred and twenty, I got you, yeah, 117, he can't do that, so he's just a 0 ton machine at 20 miles an hour, that's what he is, he absolutely nails it at 120, but then , yes, The good old internal combustion engine is good, very impressive, every day, impressive, you know, passes by both cars, a little green, now keeps the gasoline power alive.

You have to say it though this is so impressive. I leave my case, people in the car and make noises when accelerating. because it's unusually fast we did drag racing and proved it's really fast 120 we already knew that because the internet is full of drag racing videos of these things eating hypercars and super cars from rest 120 what I want I know it's good On the road, the ride isn't bad, but I get a little bit of vertical movement that I wasn't expecting, so it gets quite airborne. This is a bumpy road, although there is some noise in the cabin. is the other thing is not having engine and transmission noise if you hear a little ripple or something like that you really notice it 130,000 pounds for this model this is the mack daddy this is it so this is all the performance and all the range no I don't feel like that in here at all.

The big screen is most impressive. You'll see her in a minute. I will put my hand on her. It's twice the size of anything I've seen on another car before. It's a lot. next generation, so I can see the autopilot detecting me exactly on the road. He has both cars in front of me. He knows perfectly well what is happening. I have the feeling that he knows things about me that I don't want to. I know he knows some of the bad things I did, maybe it's himregenerative braking the most obvious and it leaves you out of sync with the rest of the traffic because when you back up it regenerates and gives you a lot of automatic braking without touching the brake pedal so when you go to brake all the other cars go forward like a normal car , but this thing stops faster, so you have to cover the accelerator a little like you're driving an automatic in traffic.

I quite like the scarcity in this. speed, it is incredibly quiet. I mean, it's quieter than an S-Class around town. I can totally see that people love this stuff because for traffic like the Grand Prix it can't be beat and I guess the lack of noise is attractive in that sense and this is all so encrypted that I wonder why the outside looks so conventional, like in a hatchback with two or three boxes when they had the opportunity to redesign everything because they do not have the limitations of a transmission tunnel, or a normal 130 thousand pound engine, but it is not necessary to put fossil juice in it, but how much does it cost in fossil juice and how much of this depreciates? the numbers I really want to know let's get out of a T-junction, just kick off, dear Lord, that was fifty miles an hour at that time.

I can see people getting quite addicted to that kind of immediate acceleration because it's amazing how things are very heavy, very heavy and that, in combination with four-wheel drive and just being pushed into the ground. for that mass. I think what people like me want to know is if it really is good to drive well, the steering is not fast at all. It doesn't really have much life to it, but I can place it and that weight gives it a kind of secure feeling on the road, it just feels squished against the asphalt, it handles pretty well, it's a pretty bumpy road, okay, I'm impressed.

The foot controls are pretty good, it doesn't need to go much faster than I'm going now it brakes, it doesn't like stopping repeatedly from a very high speed, but at these types of speeds you can throw it just fine, yes I am. I'm pretty impressed by this, do I care that it doesn't have an internal combustion engine? It's not really about doing this, because the cars I enjoy the most are in this class, you know, they're five series seven sized cars, well, the engineers have passed the last one. 30 years of trying to couple the drivetrain as quiet as possible and this beats them all because it doesn't make any noise, but in that time my range has gone from 170 to 150 so I think we're going to have a little load and think a little more. about this very, very smart machine, this is the flagship model of Tesla Model S.

I mean all the power and all the range because 130,000 pounds in Tesla claims it goes from zero to 60 on hold two point four seconds yes two point four seconds weighs 2,000 240 kilograms has a claimed range of 381 miles, but is not useful for that performance top speed is 155 miles per hour power is rated at 603 horsepower equipment speaks 713 pound-feet technically it is so smart that really makes the brain hurt, but somehow it doesn't It doesn't feel like an expensive car, the cabin is completely boring, just an old Merc switch, a couple of screens and some cheap leather, so this is a way with many curves and I have no idea what we like, that this is also technical.

It's been the downfall of some pretty good cars, so I'm fascinated to find out what it's like. I mean, the speed is without a doubt, so we've gone all the way through the shock a couple of times, not too much. The bad thing is that it has the whole idea of ​​compression damping, you can feel it, so it goes up in the air and then it controls the movement very quickly, almost too quickly, and it feels like it has a second input at that point, it could just give up because the shocks are still dealing with the previous bump, but you can go really fast on this one and it doesn't, it doesn't fall apart, it's not a disaster.

I was afraid it might be, but it really isn't, but if you like to go very, very fast from zero to under 20 miles per hour, where it's allowed, there aren't many cars that can do what this can do, but what? Because I do not like it very much? It doesn't excite me. I admire what he can. I do it, but it kind of stays there. The surprise of the package is how good it is on the road. There's something unnatural about the way it takes these bumps, so it leaves you with quite a porpoise-like movement and there are two guys in the car with I'm now recording sound and Nilo in front and they're both feeling pretty bad about the movement and you know, I don't feel too bright or brutally effective, brutally quite brutal in the stomach also when we stop, these two go. be sick the Honda Civic type-r the Yabba SHhhh can you believe I just made a new one?

I didn't think the old one was very old, but now there's more power, more sophisticated suspension and even more offensive styling, but what I want to know is if this signals the return of the Honda you love and lose, so I thought in taking a trip to the past at 8,000 rpm. The 2001 Civic Type-r is the racing companion that mentions independence at both ends, a 1998 Twin Cam. Normally aspirated four-cylinder engine with trim power and a curb weight of 12 to 70 kilograms. It was designed to be defeated and, boy, were they defeated. The big change for the 2017 type. You can't even see it.

It is the great suspension. He is now completely independent. it should always have been in the previous model, now it has 320 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque, which is far inferior to an audi rs3, but in the Honda it weighs only one thousand three hundred and eighty kilograms because the interior is made of eggshells and only weighs two. All wheel drive first in an old car, so think back to 2001 secretly what was going on, Big Brother was rubbish and Honda just a weak Civic with a high powered version that frankly rewrote the book on the hot hatches.

Here it was a car with 200 horsepower for a The engine that revved to 8,000 RPM or something only had 200 horsepower but 142 pound-feet of torque and you had to squeeze it by the neck to make it work, but when it did it had one of the

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gearboxes of any production car and I'm in one now and I tell you what modern hot hatches can learn a lot from this for starters, it looks like a hatchback to me, it's a small baby, disposable, the plastics are hard, It feels cheap and it wasn't. The money was spent. As for the suspension, the engine and the gearbox, this thing is perky, it still feels very quick, it still feels very lively, small and compact and when you get above 6,000 rpm in the VTEC, wow, and It's so immediate that I'm sitting too high on the dashboard.

It's complete rubbish, I mean it's exactly what my generation thought cool hatchbacks should be, which is pretty important to me, plus this car was affordable, it was over the top, but if you were 23 24 and a graduate , you could afford to buy this. I'm not entirely sure you can buy the car new for 35 grand when SPECT, but this just reminds you of the company Honda used to be, on the one hand it's cool to remember the heyday of Honda engineering, I mean, this is a car, but it did indeed have a racing engine with a racing transmission, fully independent rear suspension and you could buy it instead of a golf GTI, but it was much more specialized and much better to drive, but then of course they took a different route. they removed the independent rear end and gave it a beam, took the Mickey as a replacement;

This car wasn't that good, this one is spectacularly good, if it could add 43,000 miles, this example feels fresh as you like the steering. It's good, the throttle response is exceptional, it's not too fast, it's very skittish, you have to say it and this is where I probably have to eat some humble pie. I'm not entirely sure. I realized it has a separate rear end because the rear end jumps around a lot. it's lively, it could also be a beam, maybe this one needs a little adjustment and some new bushings like new shocks, but I was surprised at how nice the rear feels, but it's all immediate looks and things like looking at the space between the gear lever and the steering with a small one, you always felt like you were ready to take another gear because in this you row like crazy and it doesn't really go that fast against contemporary hatchbacks, it's very fast in comparison For these modern turbo crazy people, it has 120 less horsepower, right?

But no matter as a driving experience, this thing is a super young shirt, very, very nice, which engine has almost 8000 rpm reliably, so of course you have to take it out. too late so that when you change gears you get back into the VTEC you don't get out of the VTEC it's too much driving a car which is driving a two stroke motorcycle so you have to stay in it to enjoy it when you're out of the VTEC, the change in personality of the car is noticeable, you just think of Lumina, a loud, rather slow, rather funky hot hatch, which doesn't seem to have any driving comfort, but the moment you get up it hits, what a driving position !

This too high steering cannot be adjusted to achieve only a sort of camber adjustment, which is quite useless. You feel like you're sitting in some kind of Renault Scénic, but otherwise, I don't know if this helps you remember. Either way, they tell us how cool Honda was or what a Robi it could have become. I'm reliably told that this new Civic Type-R is running very well, so let's get into that and see if we can find some common DNA and find out if Honda has, um, yeah. I rediscovered that these are better days, so the new Civic type-r has an independent grip in the rear right there and we're going to take naughty young Tim out of the world in a different way, applaud Rhonda because you're back to your

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in that sense this car feels very sophisticated but oh god this also seems complicated and conflicting to me because there are so many things right about this car but essentially it feels like they've made a couple of extra tweaks or some slightly different decisions which they would have absolutely taken.

I made it as is, I think it's probably filed in the flawed genius section. Let's start with the engine, which only has 10 more horsepower than the previous version, but it's a mega engine because it's supercharged but it also has variable valve timing, so you want to talk about revs. down low power up high it's fantastic it doesn't sound so good that it's with the third outlet on the exhaust I thought we were going to do more hiss and hiss and pops and pops there really isn't much good in the steering obviously there are three different settings here there is a normal setting called comfort that there is sport and there is running in comfort it is light it is electric obviously like everything else nowadays in sport it becomes heavy and the running becomes even heavier but off center in comfort mode it is quite confusing when front of where you actually are, so you want in sport mode to have an idea of ​​where you are on the road and it gets very complicated at this point because the DNA button for a phrase better than the switch here that gives you comfort The sport and race don't let you select which of the options you want per area, so you can't have light steering, heavy shocks or stiff shocks and then an aggressive drivetrain, you have to stay within the parameters they have set and I think which is a big mistake because for me I want my suspension to be comfortable, I want my steering to be sporty, I want my engine to be racing, but I can't do it, so I'm stuck on comfort, which is actually how I drive the car because I want a supple suspension, but then I have steering that is too light and indistinct and the engine feels a little flat.

I don't know why they don't have the ability to choose their own. Button as the Germans call it individual, right? You have your own options. It's a real shame. I think if you want to feel the DNA link between this car and the ep-3, the gear change in terms of shift quality is short. Precise just feels right and then the clutch engages too. The moment you get in the car, you shift, you feel like a good driver because it's so well combined, so you can't separate the choice of steering weight from suspension. throttle stiffness and aggressiveness, let's just say I think it's a big mistake because it means you're locked into a particular car personality, but having said that the suspension in comfort mode is fantastic for UK roads, it feels so plush that it doesn't I can believe it.

What I'm saying is this car doesn't need to have four wheel drive, it has so much traction, 245 Conte sections for everything, that you would never think about traction and the differential, which locks the differentials, is so clever that I have. There's no wheel fights and conversations, could you call it? It just stays in the middle of the road, even if I'm very interested in the crown. It does not detect thosecameras and throws you to the other side of the road. It's really impressive, but here's the thing. Well, those are two things really number one. I think this car looks absurd.

I know it's not my job to study how things look, but to me this seems slightly ridiculous. It seems to appeal to young people who lack taste, but it comes at a high price. well above £30,000 is clearly unattainable, so what are you doing? Who is it addressed to? Because the kind of person who can afford to spend 35 grand on a hot hatch, I don't think he would want to be seen in something as Larry as this. Another aspect is the dynamics. I think everything this car does it probably does a little bit better than a Golf R.

I think it's more sophisticated in terms of dispenser. I think the engines are better. The gearbox is better. This is a boost to the engine at 3000 rpm. Bristow's local shoots immediately. and then it goes all the way, so 7000 rpm. I think it's the best engine in an attractive hatchback. I also love the playfulness of the chassis. I know we are on public roads, but if you want this to move around you. I really can, but that engine is great, how does it get all the power to the road? Bumpy road, this fight without talking, yes, the art of front-wheel drive has really become very clever, hasn't it?

One wonders if the Focus RS really needs to be. four-wheel drive because I think this card is more fun and it's two-wheel drive, but its dynamic advantage over a target is far enough to beat this cabin which I'll get to in a second and those exterior appearances I don't think so . I think it's too much at a glance and the cabin, damn, first of all the seat is superb and set low, well done Honda, the rest of these things I have to say are quite baffling to begin with, it can be done very little on the fly, can't get hooked.

Your phone is on on the go, you can't turn the automatic signal on or off, which is very good for the manual gearbox. Everything else we've done when you stop puzzling this screen here. I have played for 5 to 10 minutes, no. I really know why I'm like this, it's illogical at best, but I'm sure if you live with it you'll get used to it. I have to give them that space. I also like the boost gauge in the big center readout, but Overall this is just a glance here and it's like the exterior of the car to me is aimed at someone 18-24 and I know the Instagram generation is wealthy these days, but I don't know how.

Many of them can afford to buy one of these things, but I have to applaud Honda for boldly getting back into the hot hatch game. This is a superior car and if you like your hot hatches to drive well, this has to be the best. It's on the list but I will say it's a big car, hot hatches have gotten very very big, this could easily be a deal, this is the Italian m3 alfa, the answer to AMG, and boy does it have to be good because the world needs great Italian cars. And this is undoubtedly Alfa's last real chance, so in its voluptuous four-door saloon body, Alfa has included a powerful 512 horsepower 2.9-liter twin-turbocharged V6.

Peak torque is 443 lb-ft and curb weight is 1,524 kilograms thanks to expensive parts like a pop axle and carbon bonnet, carrot rear-wheel drive and only the ZF 8-speed automatic is coming to the UK. The test car was a manual, don't ask, and was equipped with optional carbon ceramic brakes, please, not a complete other one. Alfa garbage storm and the news is very very good, in fact on the road this is a more comfortable car than the m3, it has some adaptive dampers here and you can put them in a soft mode that is independent of the DNA type of the drivetrain so you can They have a lot of loud exhaust and all that but you can still loosen the shocks and so this car has an advantage over the BMW and I'm really glad they did that, it also feels like it has more rubber in the suspension , so tire noises and suspension is quieter than the BMW 2, this is a pretty refined car for long miles, it will be nice to be inside this manual gearbox.

I'm not so sure the shifting university is a The clutch pedal is a little rubbery and the movements are not the best. I thought I would love the manual. The fact that we're not going to get it doesn't worry me at all in the UK and the cockpit, well it's a pretty good place to sit I actually feel comfortable the seat is good and under this is the optional carbon look at the position of Driving is excellent you can make up your mind but does it look good or not I think it looks great feels Italian good some of the materials are not They are as good as the m3 but do you know what happens if you buy a car based on that?

Anyway, you're crazy. As a road car, I think this is genuine and good for long trips, but it also has 500 horsepower. It's too much to explode on public roads, so I'll go somewhere and let it show what it can do. We're on a loop, which is both a good and bad thing because it's a beautiful facility to use. but it's also the home of Alfa Romeo, its Polacco test track, and you won't be surprised to learn that if the Giulia Quadrifoglio is going to work anywhere, it will work here because it was developed here. What do we think first?

From all this engine really excited, I think in terms of a turbocharged engine it really goes over the top and this might be the best one I've ever driven. This is a really fast car. I reckon it's about 10% faster than an m3 but what it doesn't do is start from the bottom in the same way as the m3, peak torque is higher but then it's more exciting at the top end so which actually is probably a more exciting engine, but it doesn't have that CrazyTalk bass. If you sometimes feel like, come on, keep going, also the calibration I talked about on the road is a little spongy, well it doesn't matter as much on the track because you're up and running, what's wrong with this chassis?

Can we stop and celebrate the fact that I'm driving a 500 horsepower, rear-wheel drive Alfa Romeo? I didn't think I'd ever played, so I'm really happy, but my mom let that cloud my objectivity. we get here okay its supposed to be lighter than an m3 but it feels bigger and bolder than an m3 so that's not necessarily a good thing its on a sticky corsa tire its got second gear yeah the front of the car is great, a little bit of understeer wash, but you can neutralize it with the throttle because it has a lot of torque, it's really a kind of sliding ball, well let's see, yes, it really is, it has a lot of chatter, it leaves a lot.

I don't feel a great sense of connection in the car. I was doing everything that gets in my way and I feel more connected in an m3, so where are we? I think we have a chance to play comfortable on the road and super fun on the track, which is just You want brakes, huge ceramic things, so yeah, they're very good. The brake pedal feels pretty good again. It's all a bit inert, but that's what we expect from a fairly large sedan. The engine revs beautifully. It really does. There are a couple of things. The variable differential is worth noting, the calibration on the way it works with the engines.

I don't think it's as slippery as the Mercedes c63 or the m3. I guess having Bunbury will lead for about 20 or 30 years, so I have to start somewhere, aren't they okay? Now I have the shocks and the stiffer setup and what's telling is that the rear axle location may not be up to par with the BMW either. Every once in a while, I just feel like it's got a little bit of rubber on a secondary mount or something that's not fully connected there, but I mean, come on, it's an Alfa, we can do it just with an Alfa by dropping the rear axle at one hundred and sixty, everything's fine.

With the world's criticism, well, the ESP system means you can turn it off when you go into full race mode, which gives you the loudest engine and the sharpest throttle response, but if you activate the ABS when you have it off, it brings some intervention back, meaning transitions are a problem. I know it will be a big concern for all the people who buy these cars when they drive them around Fulham, but it's also worth pointing out, for example, that that doesn't happen on some of the German brands. I think you know what I mean if you look every performance discipline, most of them, BMW and Mercedes, do a little better, you ask me, but they are small degrees where the alpha counters have this advantage.

The comfort of the BMW cannot be matched. I think that's a big thing on the road, if you add them all up it just gets annoying, happy inserts in small areas, yes the end is better, the top end, but I think the noise from this at low revs is a bit Disappointing, it's great when you pick it up, so is it as good as an m3 objectively? No, I don't think so, but it's not a million miles away and it looks fantastic. I know it is subjective and available to a mayor. a lovely combination and I think however many they bring to the UK I think they will all be a hit.

I just think it's the car that people want to drive, so it's a big effort, a really big effort, did we really do it? I hope they go out and surpass the best in the class directly. No, we did very well. I like this car. I like Bellanca. I'm going to have an espresso. I'll pretend I'm Italian.