ALFA ROMEO SPIDER 2.0 JTS Lusso 2dr (2003)

The Alfa Spider - Good fun, dead fast, can be a bit noisy and shaky.

Blast from the past! I had one of these for a few years in the late 90s, and had a fantastic time with it. At the time I was commuting about 80 miles a day total, and it just zipped along in wonderful style. The only annoying thing about the Alfa Spider was the noise on the major roads (probably inevitable with a soft top).

Thinking back it's probably not the most comfortable or reassuringly stable car all in all, but to me it just seemed wonderfully sporty (I suppose I was, ahem, a bit younger then). Obviously as it's a convertible you're a lot more exposed in a crash - I always kind of had a bit of a twitch about something in a crash sailing through the fabric roof and onto my head!!

Like all nice powerful cars it does tend to drink fuel quite heavily, but it gets you from A to B so quickly and exhilaratingly it more than compensates.

It goes without saying there isn't much space in the Alfa Spider for very much at all apart from driver and passenger, and even then you won't be giving lifts to any particularly tall people.

All in all a good fun car, if a bit shaky and noisy at times.