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Alfa Romeo GTV6 2.5 review. The eighties Alfa icon with the best sounding V6 ever?
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Alfa Romeo GTV6 2.5 review. The eighties Alfa icon with the best sounding V6 ever?

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The Alfa Romeo GTV6 2.5 from the eighties was powered by the fabulous Busso V6 engine, which loved to sing its way to the redline and the car soon became renown for its wonderfully balanced handling. Here’s my full on-road review of this Alfa icon from the eighties.
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  4. Around 10.30 in…gear change…what's wrong with that??…nothing…just drive the car as it is, not what you might want it to be…or as if it where a different car.

  5. I have always liked this car. The James Bond chase scene in movie Octopussy. It seems Alfa Romeo made a respectable, able, engaging car to drive. It may not have been the fastest or best handling, but a fun drive and that V6 engine sounds absolutely glorious. I am over 50, so this car was out when I was younger and now, feeling of missing driving some of the decent cars of the 80s.

  6. I've always thought of this model as the best Alfa available at the time. Great chassis and great engine. But I had a Fiat Dino 2.4 coupe for twenty years, and I'd say the Dino V6 just edges the Busso engine for sound … thanks to the higher revs and, somehow I think that 65 degree V-angle of the Dino engine gives it something extra once you're hitting 7000 rpm or so. Both terrific Italian engineering masterpieces. It seems only Italy can produce engines that sound this good.

  10. Bought one New.. Was Alfa besotted as My excuse… as I owned a GT Veloce previously

    Mine proven a trully Shitty car to own… a BAD buy truth be told.
    Yess ..the engine was entertaining but the gearbox with its' unbeliveably Vague shifter Really Did make driving it a chore.
    Gear lever felt like it was stirring soup.
    Only real way of knowing What gear you rowed it into.. was to let out the clutch.
    Adding a whole new dimension to gear changes..
    Plus the Trans Synchros (albeit typical of ALL alfas) barely worked.. from Brand New.
    Gear clunks and grinds… right off the showroom floor… in retrospect i should have left it at the dealers

    Seeing all the pathetic quality, falling off parts in this example was all too remiscent.
    Noting that even this one… with Stupid amounts of Brit DIY? anti rust Goops… IS.. rusting visibly.
    If one can see even slight rust on an Alfa.. it's well on it's way to being a total rust out.

    Again: these cars are at their very best when owned by 'someone else' Far More Myth than substance .

  11. I still have my '84 GTV6, purchased around 1987 from a doctor here in Phoenix, AZ. The car went out of service around 1995 when I purchased a used 164S. So many great memories were had in my GTV6 (two tone: metallic "root beer" brown and grey, with tan Recaro-style seats. I was lucky to have an excellent mechanic (Bruce from AZ Twin Cam) who kept me on the road – no small feat for a college kid at the time. I remember at least a couple of timing belt replacements, multiple driveshaft donuts and eventually a clutch (switched to the Milano style), among other things. Rather than falling victim to rust like so many, my GTV6 is solid, but sunbaked from the desert heat. I'm dreaming about restoring it someday (but not sure if and when that will be possible), as I currently have three other Alfas in my stable: '65 Spider, '84 Spider Veloce, and '17 Giulia Sport daily driver.

  14. Nice to hear some actual engine and mechanical noise rather than just an after market pipe overwhelming the car. The owner gets it!

  17. They didn't come with a standard DIN size stereo because (From memory!) I seem to recall that they used a removable pull-out Voxson head unit. This was the days when stereo theft was a big thing. Those and FIATs were a pain to retrofit something DIN unless you were lucky enough to be able to get your hands on a fascia conversion panel.

  18. The purist, and best Gtv 6 , was South Africa only 3.0 Auto delta block car with its own piston size, not a 75 3.0 block as the 3.0 had not been produced by then, and 3 twin chock dellortos. Easy to import up to 7 years ago but they are very valuable now, and South Africa's cherish them now.
    Now the gear box, if any one complains about the Alfa trans axle gearbox, they are not a natural driver, Anybody that drove lorries in the 70s and 80s would feel right at home with the Alfa trans axle box, like the trucks you go up and down the box half a dozen times and if your still struggling finding gears with it after that, you are better suited to another job and not a natural driver. The gears are in the same place every time you change, they don't move around. Looking back at Road test from the 80s they never held much credibility, as did the journalists that wrote reviews, because it was there opinion, and did not reflect what different people wanted, we all dont like carrots ,its what they thought people should buy. It's was a poor man's 308 gtb, and probably a better car having owned both, the Alfa engine sounded better and not a hell of a lot slower.

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