Used Car of the Day: 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV

by Tim Healey

Published: January 19th, 2024

We're back after a couple days out of office on TTAC bidness. Today we bring you a 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV.

It was fully rebuilt in 2004 and has 30,000 miles on the rebuilt 2.0-liter engine.

Not only has the engine been rebuilt, but it and the transmission and suspension have all gotten performance upgrades.

There are more details here.

The seller wants $75K firm and the car is based in Ojai, California.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Tronan on Jan 19, 2024

The two-tone paint scheme mimics the treatment many GTAs (the racing version of the GTV) received. It looks better in person than in these apparently old photos.

I love GTVs but they're maintenance intensive. $75K is about what newly restored GTVs have been going for over the last three to four years. That's a steep price for one that was restored 20 years ago. The lack of any new photos (and the dearth of older ones) and very cursory information about the car don't inspire confidence.

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MaintenanceCosts on Jan 22, 2024

Fantastic car for someone else to own and me to ooh and ahh over at the Sunday morning car show.

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FreedMike Ah yes, my old car.(Sigh.)Not much I could add that Tim hasn't already, but I can wholeheartedly recommend it - it's a hoot to drive, and very easy to live with. I'll also be a contrarian and rep for the DSG. It's quicker than the manual, and far easier to work with in traffic. Tim doesn't mention this in the writeup, but DSG works better when you're shifting it manually, using the shifter paddles - you'll get probably 80-90% of the driver involvement you'd expect with a manual; in fact, I rarely let my old car shift for itself. I never regretted passing on a manual with this model. The only real sour notes I can mention here are a) you're restricted to the more expensive Autobahn package, which has a bunch of nice-to-have stuff, but hardly necessary (my car was the base S model, and it was comprehensively equipped), and b) it looks like VW is still fitting this car with the POS Hankooks my old car came with. The Hankooks were a model of consistency: consistently bad in the dry, bad in the rain, bad in the snow, and wore like crap (mine were done for at maybe 20,000 miles). If you want this car, spend the extra dough and get a set of Goodyear Eagle Sports (standard equipment on the GTI, by the way) - they are a major upgrade, and not unreasonably priced. Who knows? If VW is still making this when my lease is up in 2027, I wouldn't be opposed to taking another one of these home.
ToolGuy™ New, no. Used, maybe? (Target $24K for a 2024MY)
Zerofoo Less software, simpler designs, more robust materials = longer service life.The car with the smallest environmental footprint is the one that is never built.
Zerofoo So long as automakers design in planned obsolescence, the answer is a resounding NO.Disposable garbage is always worse for the environment than quality products with a long service life.
ToolGuy™ Nice, Mercedes.