There’s a cause that the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio’s inside foibles appear as petty as they’re, and it’s to do with the way in which the automobile drives. The V6 fires to a purposeful, if not spiteful, idle, with the impression that air is being moved round in gruff quantities.
It’s no AMG V8, however neither is AMG’s newest providing. So notch up one other win for this outdated stager.
If you twist the DNA drive mode selector to D (for dynamic), it will increase the exhaust woofle, sharpens the throttle response and impacts which gear the transmission opts to place itself in.
On half throttle, thoughts, there’s an occasional hesitancy: generally it offers you greater than you ask, generally much less, nevertheless it’s very slight and solely simply sufficient to prick your consciousness.
The eight-speed auto’s actions are properly matched, though at something greater than a mild cruise we discovered we needed to take cost ourselves through the column-mounted shift paddles.
Do so and the Alfa pretty flies. In our 2017 highway check, in good excellent circumstances and on new tyres it hit 60mph from relaxation in underneath 4 seconds. As a two-way common, with two folks aboard and totally fuelled, there’s nonetheless nothing flawed with the 4.5sec the automobile returned in our fingers. It’s unlikely the additional 10bhp added at first of 2024 will make a lot distinction.
Turbo lag turns into negligible after you have 3000rpm or so wound on, and the V6 runs to a soulful 7300rpm, with a noise that’s smoother than V8s and extra partaking than BMW’s straight-six.Its gearbox operates with larger smoothness than that in most options, too. The Giulia mooches by way of gears with the benefit of a good torque converter auto, and is arguably higher for it.
It additionally stops properly, even on worn P Zero Corsas and within the moist, though brake pedal really feel as you come to a halt might be improved. Initial really feel is sweet, as is retardation, on carbon ceramics or in any other case, however typically after you cease you must regulate pedal stress to forestall the Giulia creeping forwards.