People like retro. How much more retro can you get than building poor reliability into Italian cars. Man, JUST like the good old days. Now, you too can have the full experience of owning a beautiful genuine Italian. Warts and all.
FIAT..... Fix It Again, Tony!
TL;DR: It’s an Alfa. It is so enjoyable when it does run properly that you just learn to deal with it when it doesn’t.
It’s the psycho girlfriend of the automotive world.