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that is gna be shocking but its a great looking thing its gna be like the 147 gta the understerr is going to be terrible

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It looks like it was designed on Need For Speed Undercover by just AutoSculpting the grilles & intakes to make them bigger. Hopefully understeer will be defeated by suspension trickery and it'll have NFS handling too.

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THIS IS ONE GOOD LOOKING CAR . I WOULDNT BUY IT THOUGH. DUNNO WHY . ID RATHER A GOLF

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THIS IS ONE GOOD LOOKING CAR . I WOULDNT BUY IT THOUGH. DUNNO WHY . ID RATHER A GOLF

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i think the normal mito looks better

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With longer nose, 240bhp and electronic diff, this thing is going to be devastatingly fast.

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This LOOKS Mad, but i like the coupé because there is a slight understeer from the front tyres but you can catch it, and it is such a lively car, which is FUN. I think this MiTo is special but thets hope for Alfa Romeos sake it dosent understeer like the 147 GTA, i think if it dosent have catastrophic understeer like the 147 then Mini might just have a new rival.

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I was hoping Alfa had learnt something with the 147 GTA... This MiTo was supposed to be good... not with front-wheel drive though. Even with the electronic diff, the steering won't be any good.

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I personally have become a huge fan of the MiTo, and the GTA only seems to improves on what's great. More butch and less cute now, a bit comparing Duncan Bannantyme to Theo Paphitis. I just hope the (ideally non) Alfa bofs have managed to rid of that dreadful understeer on the 147 GTA, and that that little chassis can handle those horses! I have my doubts... Prove me wrong Alfa!

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these stupid remarks about powerfull FWD car understeer are, well stupid. i would call unability to properly drive such a car fast a clarkson foot syndrome. see this video of alfa wildly understeering all over the track, if you want to see something really interesting, watch untill the end of the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRqRYNsr67Q&feature=channel_page i drive a 1200kg 220bhp turbo FWD car with roughly the same measures as MiTo and i find myself mysteriously smiling whenever i see any BMW start dancing in front of my car all over the twisty road, and then smiling even more when it disapears from my rear view mirror sight. bottom line, i believe a well sorted FWD mad hatch can be quite a bit more surefooted in the twisty bits than similarly powerfull RWD hatch or limo... but wanna be fast drivers find oversteer fun, even when it's stupidly pronounced, and some even think it's fast or at least fast-er. well it's actually fasterish. Can't wait for little GTA.

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It looks like one of those 'boy-racer' cars even though it sounds pretty nippy! :-)

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It's an Alfa Romeo and I love Alfas you buy one because it's art so who cares if you are cleaning up hedges everytime you breathe on the throttle. I'll have one in black with the anthracite rims please :-) and I'd take a black one over the all-too-clinical and German Golf GTI, I'd even have one of these before having a Fiat 500 Abarth or Mini Cooper S but I'd take a black 8C Competizione any day!!! However this MiTo GTA is an Alfa I can afford. When are they bringing them to Oz?

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it would be fast but i dont like the stlyeing id prefer the147

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The design to me of the MiTo is abit of a love it or hate and abit of a grower like have to say it like the BMW X6 but the MiTo GTA looks alot better but what is with the badge on the top of the bonnet and the bulge at the top of the bonnet the point of an alfa romeo is to have clean lines on the car design not american muscle car lines. I like the MiTos but never get the GTAs because they simply have too much power hopefully they have sorted that we some clever way of getting the power down

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