Ok, since we talking Alfa performance now (you started it) I honestly think the LAST respectably fast Alfa was the 145 Quadrofoglio Verde wiff 114kw in a light body. It outran/run G4 GTI's and stayed at the boot of Superbosses in the Cape...The 147's and 156 TS's were just window dressers...boasting 110kw. Thus in my post a couple of months ago that was so revolutionary and cuased sleepless nights for some members on here about me bashing a Polow GTi..if you go back to that spacific thread I could not believe it myself, I even mention that maybe the GTi racer was not racing, but he assured me he did...this I could not believe. The 147 is a SLOW poke, sure I bully VW gholphs that rev next to me all day long but when you take the power the car puts out its nothing worth sharing anyway.
The V6 engines are what you can call performance engines, G5GTI's can't run from a standard 156 V6 ja they push the same power output but that's a feat. Tuned GTV 3.0 run with Scooby's at high speed...but to look back at the heydays of the 80's and 90's where 1.8 and 2.0 Nord engines made 100kw was amazing, plus it was all transfered to the rear wheels!
but ja, that's my Alfa dissapointment story for you...it can no longer be associated with being fast...but I'm also becoming sick of the association with looks, that's all, it looks good...is it fast, no...why not??