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While that's true, in my (limited) experience, any car older than 10 years will start to see some issues in places you'd both expect and not expect it.
I think with the 147 there's some issues with chassis legs, but then you need to look at subframes, suspension, and steering. When I say rust I don't just mean body rust which is an MOT fail, but when stuff is gunked up, corroded, and seized, it makes it hard to service and maintain, and causes premature failure.
Not specifically on Alfas, but generally, the difference between the bottom of UK cars and cars in Japan (for example) is night and day. The Japanese cars look like they did when they rolled out of the factory, just a bit tired. UK cars you can barely tell how wide a tie rod was originally, you have no idea where the bolts are supposed to be without a Haynes manual, and woe betide you if you want to adjust something.
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@NurseHolliday I thought I remembered reading somewhere that rust is not really an issue because they have a galvanised body? As for sillyspeed I don't think I'd even consider buying a car (especially an Italian one) without a proper manual. Thanks for the tip on the 1.6 had been looking at a few but have since read plenty of other reports of them being a bit wet.