Alfa Romeo Giulietta car review – ‘It talks a good game’

The truth is, it's only fun when you're driving like a bit of a git

I have a generalised prejudice against the family sport car. It sounds ingenious, but the reality is usually a load of squashed people unable to see properly out of tinted windows in the back, with a jerk in the front to whom the cachet bestowed by his engine noise is more important than the deep-vein thrombosis brewing behind him.

This isn't necessarily untrue of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta - only this time, I was the jerk in the front, which made those dynamics look rather different.