Probably true? This is where I openly disclose that the only truly European thing I’ve driven was French, and sometimes French is brilliant, and sometimes French is lemon, they’re temperamental like that. Mine was unfortunately a lemon.
That said I do note that the other marques seem to have shaken their various “Italian” hoodoos (except subsidiaries of FIAT, not gonna go there). The main problem now is, as we can see, that first impressions last.
Won’t fault the interior quality of the Brera that I sat in once though…
As far as I know, post 2000 alfas are not that unreliable, actually. They are pretty much on par with BMW (They both are crap , but you can sorta put up with it). The problem with post 2000 alfas is if you order your cool tuner stickers on ebay, it will rust to bits before those arrive.
Still the most exciting thing about driving that would be watching all the seams between your interior plastic panels shift and morph when you turn the corner.
