Nah, course it does
156GTA and 3.2 GT were great on this engine. 147GTA was a bit of a handful I must admit
I went on the alfa dealer/customer invite day a few years back when the 147GTA came out and alfa did a day on the back roads of durham. It was just after the autocar review that said the sump kept bottoming out(b0llicks). Sadly for alfa the day was on roads i grew up on (know like the back of my hand) and i scared the living daylights out of the marshals by the amount of air and speed i was doing

I found little wrong with the 147GTA it could tug but these roads were ruff, narrow and bumpy. These Roads i recently drove a new Golf R on (standard suspension + 19s) and found it too hard it kept trying to bounce/skip itself off the road

I tried a 147 With a Q2 diff (use to be ~£300) fitted and i simply could not unstick it. So i don't understand when people say they are unusable as it confuses me.

Unless there based on autocar and Mr. clarksons views. But i agree to disagree.

I still want a 5 cylinder VW/Audi again at some point the worble i just simply love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQECT3-M3tE