Gallery: Review: Alfa Romeo 4C Spider
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The Alfa Romeo 4C is a true driver's car that connects you to the road in a way other 21st century cars don't.
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The Spider is the drop-top version of the 4C, the sports car that launched last year to mark Alfa Romeo’s return to the US.
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It starts at $63,900 and hits US dealer lots in August.
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The car does a wonderful job keeping you in aggressively low gears, where power and torque are available at the twitch of a toe.
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Stab the brakes, get a downshift. Stab them hard, and you can go from 60 mph to a dead stop in under 100 feet.
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This is the Immortan Joe regime equivalent of an automatic transmission, all about speed and fury.
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The engine vents make the rear of the car look like Pikachu or a robot panda, depending on the angle.
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nside, there are no creature comforts. No arm rests, though the passenger can hang onto a leather strap. The cup holders are just deep enough for espresso cups.
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The 4C has a radio. I don’t touch it. Partly because listening to the four cylinders and turbocharger do their thing behind my head is pleasure enough, but mostly because I don’t need, or want, the distraction.
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The 4C doesn’t make driving easy—my lap times are, how you say, not bellissimo—but it does something better. It connects me to the road.
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