If you desire a new Dodge Charger with Italian aptitude, you will have to attend till 2026 when the brand new Alfa Romeo Giulia debuts. In an interview with our colleagues at Motor1 Italy, Alfa Romeo CEO Jean Philippe Imparato shared preliminary particulars in regards to the future sports activities sedan. It’ll journey on the identical STLA Large platform because the 2024 Charger however with a radically totally different design.
Speaking with the Italian press at an occasion held in Arese on the Alfa Romeo Museum, the corporate’s head honcho says the design is locked in. They’ve been engaged on the automotive’s styling for the final two years and we’re being promised the result’s nothing in need of distinctive: “What we designed is a bomb, we couldn’t finalize the style of this car without being absolutely in love with it. And now we are!”
2026 Alfa Romeo Giulia rendering by Motor1
2026 Alfa Romeo Giulia rendering by Motor1
The new Giulia will likely be constructed alongside the Stelvio SUV, with each automobiles to be manufactured on the manufacturing facility in Cassino. Alfa Romeo informed us the Stelvio would be the first to go on sale in some unspecified time in the future in 2025, adopted a few 12 months later by its sedan counterpart. We requested Imparato how Stellantis goes to separate the brand new Giulia from the Charger. Alfa Romeo’s head honcho informed us the STLA Large platform affords nice flexibility by way of total size, wheelbase, width, peak, and many others.
It stays to be seen whether or not the subsequent Giulia will keep on with the normal three-box sedan components or will undertake a swoopy fastback silhouette as beforehand hinted at by firm officers. If the latter is what Alfa Romeo has in thoughts, the form might echo different Stellantis merchandise just like the Peugeot 4008 and Citroën C5 X.
Although there have been experiences about Giulia and Stelvio going electric-only, that is not true. The STLA Large platform has been conceived to accommodate each combustion engines and electrical drivetrains—as demonstrated on the brand new Dodge Charger. Consequently, the 2 Alfa Romeo fashions will include ICE and EV energy, plus a mixture of each with a hybrid setup.
2025 Alfa Romeo Stelvio rendering by Motor1
2025 Alfa Romeo Stelvio rendering by Motor1
By 2027, Alfa Romeo could have electrical variations of all fashions. The Milano small crossover will get the ball rolling on April 10, the Giulia and Stelvio will get zero-emission setups within the subsequent couple of years, and an even bigger SUV might observe within the latter half of the last decade. Alternatively, Imparato urged it could be a big aero-optimized sedan, however a last resolution will not be taken till the top of this 12 months. Whichever mannequin will get the inexperienced mild, it will not go on sale earlier than 2028.
Alfa’s high brass additionally touched on reviving the Duetto moniker for a compact electrical automotive, probably a coupe and/or a convertible: “Alfa Romeo is the only brand that is capable of making a car costing €30,000 up to €2 million. You can’t just make up a Duetto. But if you make a C-segment [car] you can make a Coupe or Spyder version that would be a great thing to do. The sound of silence.”
If we have a look at the gross sales numbers, Alfa Romeo is heading in the right direction as shipments grew by 30 % in 2023. Since the entry-level Milano is hitting sellers later this 12 months, 2024 is shaping as much as be a superb 12 months as nicely. With the brand new Stelvio (2025) and Giulia (2026) coming alongside, the second a part of the last decade might see Alfa blossom into a real rival for the German trifecta.
When FCA and PSA merged, Stellantis promised to maintain all 14 manufacturers beneath its company umbrella by investing for 10 years. Alfa Romeo acquired a serious money inflow to revamp its lineup, and the identical is occurring to different troubled Italian manufacturers reminiscent of Maserati, Fiat, Lancia, and Abarth. Even the French luxurious marque DS Automobiles is sticking round in the interim.