Thank you.

Hell no.  This is a completely different issue - brimming with its own
problems, certainly, but still entirely alien compared with the issue of
the NTR.  That, to me, is a performance issue; had I thought the NTR was
no different than a Fiero-arri I would have shown the same kind of ire I
reserve for things like that.  Can you believe it's the same brand of
ire I pour out freely for doofuses who think that 29 large speakers
producing bass so loud it can't actually even be heard inside their car
(though it makes all the metalwork on the vehicle flap, flex, and
rattle) is a cool thing and completely socially acceptable.

You can't know how many dickheads I have watched pull up to a stop
light, open any window that isnh't already opened, and then turn it up
super loud for the duration of the stop period?  As soon as they pull
away the windows go up and the sounds go down.  Now what was the purpose
of the little traffic-light display?  In my opinion, it was a plea for a
bullet to the back of the head.  But that's just my opinion.  Others
would probably answer differently.

BTW, enough with the "polemic", already.  There will be no profligate
ten-dollar-word tossing around here.

I agree ... and then they show up again, visually butchered, on the C6
Corvette, and I have to work to control the gag reflex.

I just can't get around the new V8 model, to me the entire 360 Modena
line and all its offshoots could be erased from the History of Ferrari
and it wouldn't be a big loss.

To me, I said.

Evidently that Alfa Romeo 8C was done in-house?  Centro Style?  That's a
fine filly.  Maybe Ferrari needs to bust out the cookie jar and head
over to Alfa for a little raid ...

(here's a link w/some nice hi-res photos)

http://www.italiaspeed.com/news_2003/frankfurt_report/alfa_romeo/8c_official_ind
ex.html

MC