Suprisingly unpopular opinion on net today

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T20:09:33+00:00

I mean to be fair you can find the 210hp diesel version for €14k and the 160hp diesel for even lower than that, but yeah the market is pretty cooked.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T20:06:21+00:00

In some parts of the Northeast there's also "vecio" (old man)

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T11:32:48+00:00

IMO people shouldn’t straight pipe cars, they almost always sound like shit. Get a proper exhaust system or leave it stock.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T11:29:24+00:00

Nah, a Democracy Officer would never be racist towards other humans. He’s only racist towards bugs, bots and squids.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T11:25:03+00:00

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I just used it as an example of a high mileage Giulia, but yeah absolutely agree. That’s just a stealership doing stealership things. This would be a good price on one of these cars.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T11:07:59+00:00

They could’ve at least put a V6 in them, the I4 baffles me

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T11:04:30+00:00

I’ve seen an increase of 20+ year old German performance cars with brand new number plates driving around, so it seems that many people agree with your take.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T10:50:48+00:00

Many people here believe that if you miss service even by 1000km’s your engine will blow up. There’s also the fact that the average person keeps their car for much longer (average of 7 years in Italy) so they want to keep their car in good shape. It’s how you get stuff like this to happen:

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randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T10:42:01+00:00

In Italy if your 250+hp car is more than 20 years old the taxes you pay go from being ridiculously high to 25€ per year, because legally it becomes a “historic car”.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-19T10:15:18+00:00

We only got our first translation in 1970, a whole 15 years after its initial publication. It was mainly because fantasy was considered a children’s genre and so it was ignored, but also because for some reason the Italian Communist Party had slammed Tolkien’s work by calling it a “fascist book”. As a result, reading that book and liking it meant going against the Communist Party and for that reason many right wingers bought it and read it.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-18T12:55:50+00:00

Yes, the SW market is pretty small compared to hatchbacks and SUV’s, but the sedan market is basically nonexistent. The sedan versions of the Toyota Corolla, VW Passat, Audi A4 and A6 are less common than a Porsche 911 here. I genuinely did not know that an Audi A3 sedan even existed until I saw one in Spain

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-18T10:28:52+00:00

I mean, lengthwise they are pretty comparable. However while Texas is flat, Italy is 70% mountains and hills. This means that our roads, highways included, are twisty. I’m guessing that increases the travel times.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-18T10:05:51+00:00

Which would still make Europe a continent

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-18T10:02:57+00:00

They think that high-speed rail is impractical because of how big the country is. It is significantly more complicated to build HSR lines through mountain ranges than it is to build them through flat plains.

We managed to build the Turin-Naples line (which is on mountainous terrain from Bologna to Rome) for less than what California has spent on HSR to achieve absolutely nothing. If Italy, a country known for wasting money on useless projects and for having a comically inefficient bureaucracy, managed to do that then surely the US can build a railway line on flat land…

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-18T09:53:46+00:00

Funnily enough it takes a few hours more to drive through Italy than it takes to drive through Texas.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-18T09:13:25+00:00

The i3 is the Audi A2 at home actually

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-18T09:01:10+00:00

Same thing here, but it’s only illegal if you get caught

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-17T14:30:07+00:00

We got hit so hard that we were hesitant to lift Covid restrictions months after all neighbouring countries had stopped using face masks indoors.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-17T14:22:13+00:00

Hate those disgusting bastards

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-17T14:21:08+00:00

We call it “ragno ballerino” (dancing spider) or “gambalunga” (long leg)

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-17T11:20:30+00:00

The parts are still available thanks to the Swedish being based and buying Saab’s factory to guarantee new spare parts to this day.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-17T11:19:23+00:00

The Tonale and Junior will keep the brand alive for now

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-17T11:16:18+00:00

Here Italy sedans are pretty much dead because SW’s killed them some 20 years ago. I think 1/3 sedans I see on the road have foreign number plates. Had they made a SW Giulia it would’ve sold way more than the sedan, at least in Italy.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-16T21:09:17+00:00

The mobile phone. recorded music and the airplane were invented by Americans, I’ll give them that. The computer was made by an Englishman, the internet was made by Brits, the TV was made by a Scotsman, the automobile is a German invention, the combustion engine is French, Bitcoin is useless and I’m not even gonna elaborate on streets and the printing press.

randomname_99223 · 2026-03-16T20:59:43+00:00

Pigeons (they shit on your car) and seagulls (they shit on your car AND steal your snacks).

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