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The Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio GTA M
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Awkwardly long name, yes, but also a very cool car. The GTAM might cost an eye-watering €180,000, yes
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but it does weigh 40 kilograms less, and it generates two times as much downforce as the regular Quadrifoglio
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thanks to its numerous new skirts and wings. its ferrari developed twin turbo v6 engine produces a touch more power thanks to new mapping
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but its eight-speed zf gearbox is fundamentally unchanged from the regular quadrifolios
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but nestling behind its new 20-inch wheels the gtam does boast a carbon ceramic brake disc at
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each corner and it comes on cup two tires and on a track says alpha these elements combine to make
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it much quicker against the stopwatch Stopwatch You don't really need to do an awful lot more than look at the Alfa GT AM to get really rather excited about it
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I mean, in the flesh, in this video I'm sure it looks great, but in the flesh, it looks sensational, this car
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It looks like a proper sort of DTM car for the road
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It just looks so serious. There's not that much more power than the regular Quadrifoglio
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It really doesn't feel like a completely different animal. It feels like the same car, but taken to seriously another level
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And it's delightful. It's not that potent in a straight line
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I'm sitting here thinking I could do with a bit more poke, actually
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and I suspect the lap time might reflect that. But in the corners and under brakes, it's pretty special, this thing
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But how fast is it, though? As ever, I'm about to find out. There are a couple of things that will prevent it from absolutely shattering any lap records One is the slight lack of straight line performance relative to the really big hitting horsepower stuff the German stuff
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Second is the gearbox, which is good, but not awesome. Third is the diff
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The diff in this car is clever, but it's not that clever. But anyway, look, let's put the helmet on
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and find out just how quick the GTAM is. so with the dna system set to race which means full beans for everything and zero traction control
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like it or not here's the lap note the fastest saloon we've timed so far at anglesey is the 600
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horsepower four-wheel drive jaguar project 8 which did a one minute 15.2 on the same cup two tires
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but carrying at least another 200 kilos In the end, the GT-AM wasn't actually that rapid against the stopwatch
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and mostly that was down to traction, which it struggled with in three key areas beyond the lap
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this despite it otherwise being a very lovely thing to drive with better traction it would
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have gone a fair bit quicker especially on a faster more open circuit where its new aero bits
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would be more effective but look even as it is we just love the gtam in most respects it's as
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beautiful to drive as it is to look at and if nothing else it's the most desirable production
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saloon we've driven by some margin, even if it isn't quite the fastest, against the stopwatch
