Hello there, car shopper. Perhaps you are in the market for a sporty sedan. You could buy yourself any number of nice, reliable and sort-of-fun sedans, or you can live on the edge and get something with an Italian flair. That’s because the Alfa Romeo Giulia is already depreciating into tempting price ranges.
Watching crash tests of newer cars can be a great way to learn about which car would be the safest for you or your family. It’s also an excuse to watch YouTube videos of expensive cars plowing into barriers at 40 mph without worrying about the occupants.
It has been brought to our attention at Jalopnik that we have been very wrong about the car brand “Alfa Romeo.” We have called it unreliable, when it is in fact not. It is very reliable. Luckily, the Real Car Men have explained it to us. Please forgive us for this transgression.
Last year, Automotive News Europe’s sources claimed that the Alfa Romeo Giulia was delayed for “extensive reengineering” after the car “failed to pass internal front, side and rear crash tests.” Fiat Chrysler then outright denied this to Road & Track, and while we may never know the truth, we do know this: the…
If you shop smart and qualify for the right rebates you can lease the regular Alfa Romeo Giulia for around $299 a month. But if you are in the market for the Quadrifoglio you could be looking at payments upwards of $1,700 a month, making it one of the worst lease values on the market.
Recently, some fast and debatably desirable cars drove around the famed streets of Monaco. Multiple Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglios joined the fun. None of them appear to break down over the course of this lengthy and challenging city drive, but the video footage is edited and we cannot be sure.
BONG BONG BONG. The dashboard had lit up like a Christmas tree. Power was gone. The whole car started shuddering. We were in a 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia with just barely 1,709 miles on the odometer, and it was already breaking down.
Oh, Alfa. You’re like some beautiful and brilliant but wildly self-destructive friend who can’t seem to ever let themselves succeed. They ace a job interview, and then show up for the first day of work drunk and with taquito vomit down their shirt. That’s sort of how I feel about the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio…
This isn’t the Alfa Romeo that your dad had in college, the Spider that was great on sunny days but wrecked his bank account over and over again with its repair bills. This isn’t the Alfa Romeo of the 1990s, after it left America and turned out one dismal Fiat-sourced front-wheel drive hatchback after another.
Back in October we caught wind that Alfa Romeo was going to sculpt the new Giulia into some sort of mystical Italian wagon. It was probably only destined for Europe, and now it apparently isn’t happening at all.
This year saw the introduction of many new cars, good and bad. Some of them also seemed to fall somewhere between good and bad in one way or another, and it’s those controversial, conversation-starting cars we’re going to highlight.
The all new Alfa Romeo Giulia will face serious competition from other European sports sedans. Alfa hopes that by bringing more style, more power at a lower price point, it will steal buyers away.
Apparently, you can get an Alfa Romeo Giulia stuck by just trying to drive up a normal driveway, Motor Trend’s Jason Cammisa proved on his Instagram. That is not encouraging.
Are you so excited for the Alfa Romeo Giulia? Do you dream of hearing its 503 horsepower twin-turbo V6 put spicy Italian noises in your ear-holes as you row through the gears of its six-speed manual transmission? Scratch the last thing off your list if you’re an American, because it ain’t happening here.
If there is anything that could make the face of the Alfa Romeo Giulia even more appealing it would be sticking it on the front of a wagon. But before you get too excited, I’m going to shut down those hopes and dreams real quick: this is for EUROPE only.
The Alfa Romeo Giulia sport sedan is one of the most important cars to come out in 2016, both for enthusiasts clamoring for a real Alfa Romeo comeback and for the struggling Fiat Chrysler brand. But some first-drive reviews in Europe reveal stereotypically Alfa-esque problems that don’t exactly inspire confidence.
Here’s nine blood-pressure raising minutes of the new Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio with its active aero and its Italian body and its twin-turbo V6. What more could you want?
This video/.gif thing from the Alfa Romeo Facebook page of the new Giulia Quadrifoglio is pretty neat. I tried to .gif it myself, but it didn’t work and I’m lazy.
MAJESTY. ALFA ROMEO.
