I never drove an Alfa, and that includes the Milano, the GTV and the Spider that did not have a seating position where I had to hold my arms out like I was holding on to an explosive device. This might have had to do with being very tall and needing to pull the seat back far enough that my knee did not hit the bottom of the dash.

I ran into the same thing on the Jensen-Healy except there I also had to cram my size 14's into a space on the right side of the steering shaft in order to work the clutch.