2000 Alfa Romeo Spider Lusso from UK and Ireland - Comments

Roof, roof and then another roof.

I've had two new Spiders this year.

They are lovely cars but frankly under powered.

Alfa Romeo dealer network is questionable, especially when it comes to roofs. I had three of them on this car and AR couldn't fix them.

Also, on both of my two Spiders, the paintwork was absolute crap.

Second car was sold after 7 weeks. 5 of them in the garage. Not surprisingly, nothing else went wrong with the car, but should it have after such a short time.

Fancied a change, so I bought a Lotus instead.

Agreed, the 2.0 TS is indeed underpowered, however, the new 3.0 V6 unit cannot be called that!

True! And very true! The 3.0 V6 is the nuts! I'm still in ownership of the 2.0 16V... Bloody nice car, can't say I've got any complaints. I'll have to wait until I can afford the insurance for the bigger brother.. But I can't wait.

I have a love-hate relationship with my 2.0 Spider Lusso.

The dealers were very slow - I almost began to feel that they didn't want to sell me the car.

The electric roof has broken on three occasions, door seals are bad, instrument panel is broken, something's just gone in the engine, and parts are unavailable for months on end.

But then, when it works, it's wonderful.

Also have love hate relationship with 2.0 spider. Had noise from in front of bulkhead after 2000 miles.Turned out to be problem with some welding points!Interior had to be removed, central console damaged. Alfa dealer has still not successfully matched and replaced this. Developing rattles from interior. Owned BMW and Volkswagen before, Alfa build quality is a joke, so is dealer after sales service. But car is much more fun to drive than any of the German cars of similar performance, will wait to see next spider in 2004 it may take general motors takeover to resolve build quality.

With relief I sold my Spider after 10 months of continuing frustration with roof (repeated failures), flooding foot well, switches disappearing into fascia and flat battery. The excellent engine, gearbox, steering, suspension and road holding did not make up for unreliability. The sheer quality of my Nissan, now 5 years old, was too much of a contrast and I would never buy another Alpha.

I have only two words for alfa, (total rubbish)

I also bought a wonderfull nissan sports, and what a difference.

So good to drive a car, with great build quality, that feels like it will never breakdown.

Good riddance to unrealiable alfas.

Are you serious?

What do you mean total rubbish?

I have owned alfa's all my life and have never had major issues.

You really are a poor soul.

You drive a nissan ha ha ha.

People with mundane lives drive nissans mate.