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Unveiling the 2024 Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio: A Thrilling Italian Masterpiece · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: time now for this hour's car review.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: I got to drive the 2024 alfa romeo julia quadrifoglio rear wheel drive.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: You can also get it in all-wheel drive.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Available trim levels include Veloce, competizione, quadrifoglio, quadrifoglio with carbon and Quadrifoglio 100th anniversary.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: This is a midsize sedan.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: I had the Quadrifoglio rear-wheel drive Seats five people All new in 2017, with updates for 2024.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: People All new in 2017, with updates for 2024.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about the, the little emblem that's on the side of the car.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you said that it's a four-leaf clover and you're going to go what?
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: It's Italian?
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: What is a four-leaf clover doing on there?
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about that in a minute.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: New front and rear lighting on the 24 model.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: Fast looking shape with rounded, creased hood lines.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Triangle grill grows on you with a large lower vertical opening.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: Uh, unremarkable rear end styling, which was kind of disappointing because I was thinking well, this is going to be looking really good in the back end too.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: Not so much kind of blends in with every other SUV out there.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: Dual exhaust and lower black valance.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: Overall, exterior styling gets an A+.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: Paint is magnificent on this car.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: A more distinctive rear end.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: Interior highlights include new, larger infotainment screen Now 12.3 inches, pretty easy to use too.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: High bolstered manual front seats and these cost more.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: Wow, because they have a carbon fiber back on the things.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: But I was kind of surprised that they were manual seats.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: But what in the world?
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: No electric, nope.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: Straightforward AC controls and other controls as well.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: High quality Racy layout Not your mother-in-law's favorite Cargo trunk room, adequate what I like.
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: You know that you're in something special and different and it's good looking and I had lots of compliments on it and everybody liked the car, which kind of surprised me.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: To be honest with you, what could use improvement?
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: A little more rear seat leg room.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: Here's the good part Ready, yep.
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: 2.9 liter V6 twin turbo Whoa, 2.9.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: A 2.9 liter, teeny tiny 2.9 liter V6 with twin turbos 505 horsepower, 443 pound feet of torque, eight speed automatic transmission with big paddle shifters on it.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: This is a race car.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: Miles per gallon rated at 17, city, 25, highway, for a combined of 20.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: Believe it or not, yours truly got 23.3 over 367.8 miles.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: This car does 0 to 60 in 5.4 seconds.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: It's pretty badass, I don't know what else to say about it.
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: Ride and handling.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: If you know, you know it's a hot rod, it will remind you of pulling out on the driveway and just letting it rip, signing the drive.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: Yep, we could use improvement.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: Nothing Give me more Price.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: Wow, pricing on this is well.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: Dancing with the devil is the note that I made to myself here to tell you about.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: It Reminds me of the very last Holden-built GTO with the Corvette motor.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: Does that make sense to you?
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the last GTO Outrageous, uh-huh, it was bad to the bone.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: Base trim price $81,370.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Prices tested $91,415.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: Like I said, dancing with the devil.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: Base model price $41,690.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: Let's put it up against the Audi A4, $419,000.
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: The BMW 3 Series $445,000.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: The Mercedes-Benz C-Class $46,950,000.
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: Those are the starting prices.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: Now, all of those cars have a hopped-up bed-to-the-bone street-rod level to them.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: I hear you, but they're not Italian.
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: They're not Italian.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: I can't do the Italian Italian from Niterville, it's from Italian Old chicken parmesan.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: This is one bad to the bone car.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: I hope that you get a chance to get it.
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: You'll probably have a wreck in it with your on-ramp acceleration test.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: That car is just, I feel, empty.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: You didn't tell us about the four-leaf clover.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: Here's the four-leaf clover story.
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: Alfa Romeo's four-leaf clover, or quadrifoglio in Italian, is a symbol of luck and performance that originated in 1993.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: This is from Google.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Story goes that Alfa Romeo driver Ugo Savoci was superstitious and often finished in second place, earning him the nickname Leterno Secondo or the Eternal Second.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: Before the 1923 Targa Florio race, savoci painted a green four-leaf clover on a white diamond on the side of his Alfa Romeo RL in hopes of bringing himself good luck.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: So Savoci won the race and the clover became a tradition that continues today.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: The clover has helped spectators identify Savoci's car on the dusty roads of the early 1900s.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: Wow, he died in a car accident a few months later while test driving a vehicle without the clover.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: After his death, the team became superstitious and began requiring all of their racing vehicles to have the clover badge before taking to the track.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Today, the clover is still a symbol of Alfa Romeo's racing history and high performance and is featured on the Quadrifoglio models.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: Is that where we get leprechauns from?
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: That's exactly where it is.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: You push it and you get a leprechaun Arr Meat.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: It's that leprechaun.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I thought that was an interesting story.
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: It was, yeah, all right, hey, if you'd like to get in touch with us, shoot us an email.
• 6:11
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• 6:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you.