The Alfadana disease spreads!
Oh my, it seems that Proton has infected it’s old partner Mitsubishi with the Alfadana disease. Mitsubishi’s latest Lancer bears quite a significant similarity to the sexy Alfa Romeo 159 doesn’t it? What do you think? 
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April 23, 2007 @ 7:19 am
Agree.. especially the the rear lamp design..
April 23, 2007 @ 7:34 am
The front of this Lancer actually drive from the shark look of Mitsubishi Galant VR4. Yes, it look quite same with the Alfa. Maybe the designers in Proton have influenced the Mitsubishi when they were working together not so long ago.
April 23, 2007 @ 8:06 am
Hey Paul, Whose copied WHose is not important, the most important is the Total look. Mitsu had they own style compare to Alfa. I would say Sporty style vehicle are almost looks the same, with Spoiler, Big Wheel arc,…..etc.
Not a bad moved by the way.
April 23, 2007 @ 8:11 am
This is just a joke lah, for those who have Monday blues
April 23, 2007 @ 8:23 am
Alfadana.. LOL! Especially the frontal shark inspired design and the rear slim rear lamps and the side profile line.
April 23, 2007 @ 8:32 am
I can’t wait for the new Evo X…
April 23, 2007 @ 8:46 am
LOL!
But between those two, I’d definitely go for the Alfa. Doesn’t matter if it will break down, but, hell…it’s an Alfa!
Btw, Paul, when will they bring the 159 to our road? Any news on that? I really can’t wait.
April 23, 2007 @ 8:49 am
lol..there is no way one can compare an Alfa to a Mitsu…haha
Alfas have always been great looking cars (well, perhaps short of the odd looking 145, 146, 155….). That tail light design has always been an Alfa design cue.
April 23, 2007 @ 8:53 am
mitsu ran out of ideas…haha…but better than subaru…159 looks more muscular in the big….hmm…delicious
April 23, 2007 @ 8:57 am
twins dat r separated at birth
one taken by european, one japanese
hehehehe
April 23, 2007 @ 9:02 am
anyone notice the design of the door handle is like myvi’s?
haha..jokes aside..anyway i think this new lancer truly has its own identity to portray
April 23, 2007 @ 10:30 am
Yes, it does look very alike. I’ll go for the Alfa, unless the Lancer is an Evo, of course :p
April 23, 2007 @ 10:40 am
I think this is the best lancer (don’t count evo) ever, 2.0 Dohc MIVEC 152hp with CVT transmission. They need some improvement for changing mitsubishi bad name, btw, the new outlander is not bad too.
http://www.mitsucars.com/MMNA/jsp/lancer/08/index.do?loc=en-us
April 23, 2007 @ 11:00 am
drooling wish can buy car like tht
April 23, 2007 @ 11:29 am
yeah it does but nowadays almost every other car looks like another car
April 23, 2007 @ 11:39 am
looks like everyone is running out of designing concepts and ideas!!!
April 23, 2007 @ 11:43 am
whenever japanese car ( fine car) side to side with european car (fine car)
the japs look shabby,
why?
April 23, 2007 @ 2:53 pm
i truly agree! still i like the previous design better.sucks right? this lancer shares the same platform with the dodge …ummm forgot already the name……
April 23, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
Agreed, the cues are evident but I’m sure, with the inscreen 3rd brakelight, Alfa did not commission its rear spoiler but Mitsubishi did. With the exception of Subaru, the japanese have always cued the Europeans.
April 23, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
buy original.
April 23, 2007 @ 8:27 pm
Well just shows that people have run out of ideas on designing cars
April 23, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
i’ll take the LANCER !
April 24, 2007 @ 2:31 am
I personally think that the rear lamp is actually more Lexus IS than Alfa, especailly how the lamp housing was protruding out. Take a look at the IS and you will know why…
Lancer has started to roll out on the road here in US since early this month…
April 24, 2007 @ 9:09 am
That MyVi-handle-look-alike has been around for more than 20 years… first on a Galant VR4.
April 24, 2007 @ 1:56 pm
Didn’t I see that Pininfarina door handle on a Sutera?
April 24, 2007 @ 3:42 pm
maibatu_thunder
pininfarina do have cilent like korean or cihinese, the thing is that they have the design, but do not execute it in a manner of the it has a soul of pinifarina, in other word its crafted by chinese or korean in tune with their taste, and material,
example, matrix by pininfarina- body line and grille 100 percent korean taste,
April 24, 2007 @ 4:03 pm
159 is by gugiaro
April 24, 2007 @ 10:30 pm
When you looks at the pic, it looks nice; actaully the rear lamp is placed too high for what i see.