Faults:

Eats batteries for a living when it sits for 3 or 4 days, leaks water through the tailgate, ad round antenna hole - drips on your lap when its been raining - fixed with a wee dab of silicone. Helluva noisy - suspect baffles in middle muffler. rear parcel shelf keeps collapsing under the weight of the 6x9s that I had installed.

General Comments:

I've always liked the look of the 33. Some nice styling queues. Found myself a fixer upper - tidy body. Not heard running. I've replaced engine and gearbox. Goes OK now but I suspect new engine is past its prime. Easy to start when the battery hasn't gone flat, and some novel features like the Christmas tree dash - with an array of warning lights which don't mean much to me, but maybe will impress the ladies. Handling is OK - quite chuckable and flat through the corners, but tending to understeer early. enough panache to scare passengers, but this may be more due to feeling that something is about to break. Certainly doesn't beg to be driven as my former Alfasud did. General feeling of flimsiness and tiredness in suspension. There you have it then - something a little bit different. Get one if you can live with the niggles that you invariably will get. Look out for rust in the ass end too BTW.

Faults:

I've only had it for a little over a month. No problems yet. Some quirks that came with the car include:

Broken odometer.

Rough/no idle when cold.

Right seat won't adjust into a fully upright position.

Trunk gas struts broken.

General Comments:

A dealer sold my previous car, an Alfa 164, on commission and the guy that bought it traded in this 33. The dealer let me borrow it until I'd found a new car, but I fell in love with this dark Italian beauty and would not return her...:)

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Awesome handling.

Good performance/price ratio.

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Uncomfortable driving position.

Not the fanciest looking Alfa around.

Faults:

Nothing has gone wrong with the car. Apart from its continuing rusting away to nothing. That's a given, they rust.

General Comments:

Funny, the example given on this site is: This car is seriously quick and handles like it's on rails.

I can honestly say, that is the exact words I was going to use.

All you need to do is cut the springs in the back with an angle grinder (take 2 inches out of it) and you have yourself a car which doesn't dip when braking. Which looks normal, not out of balance.

Then rip out the air filter and whack on a nice piece of foam. The type of foam meant for custom air filters. It should cost about $10. Put those on, and suddenly you have a wild machine that revs like a V8 with a 5" exhaust all the way through.

I also have an 1984 Alfa, it is crap. The Gold Leaf edition of the Alfa seems to be something with harder suspension, better performance and handling.

I think my motor (which has only 20,000ks on it) has had some head work done on it.

This little baby does 185KM/h.

Get one in RED, they look so sweet. Mine is silver and I want to paint it red.

The interior in these is crap. My old Honda Prelude was 10 times better.

My Alfa pulls up a 30 degree hill in 3rd doing 100Km/h around sharp bends. Like a ballerina prancing around.

I raced a new 318i BMW and won. What does that say?

All that is left to do: Paint it RED, put Recaro interior through it. Find a body kit for it. Get some nice phone dial mags for it. Custom made 5" exhaust straight through.

I seriously love this little 33, it looks so boring. Yet it sounds like a hotted up WRX. It handles as good as anything for its age.

With a little bit of modification from a Gold Leaf Edition, you can get a seriously performing car for cheap.

Faults:

First, second and third gear sinchrons damaged. I bought it with the second already broken and gradually the first and the third got worn prematurely.

Comfort is a little poor due to hard sporty suspension.

Steering not very easy when parking.

General Comments:

The car is very swift for it's cubic capacity.

Perfect cornering at high speeds.

Superb engine sound.

Faults:

Gas pump.

General Comments:

A real Alfa. Sporty, reliable, not very comfortable.