Italian cars work great in the warm and dry Italian climate, but have historically had trouble with corrosion in colder climates that they were not built for. My dad loved Alfa Romeo’s, but none of them lasted very long in Denmark. In other words YMMV.

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Hamuko 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

We had an Alfa Romeo and it did not enjoy -20°C. That model has almost completely disappeared from the market after 20 years, with the remaining ones usually being sold as projects or for parts.

I think they also had problems with timing belts? Google results are suggesting me that they had to halve the change interval, possibly because of our shitty roads. Volvo belts also last for 10 years in their native Sweden but only 5 years here.

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tonyedgecombe 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Italian cars from the sixties through to the eighties were notorious for corrosion. It did mean you could buy something interesting for not very much money though. After the nineties they got a lot better.

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skylurk 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

https://xkcd.com/3123/

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retox a day ago | parent | next [-]

Please don't do this, you aren't adding anything to the conversation

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tshaddox 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I believe the phrase was originally about "mileage" as in fuel economy (i.e. miles per gallon), but "total mileage" (i.e. odometer reading) is pretty close!

	▲	skylurk 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		True! Nice pun, jacobgorm :)