So the latest Giulia is the greatest - what of the Stelvio?
was always a very easy car to like. Where some super SUVs aimed to replicate the super-saloon experience from a higher vantage point , Alfa took the opportunity with its first entrant to make a twin-turbo, V6 hot hatch. It accelerated, stopped and steered like nothing else in the segment, in the best way possible.
for a fairly small-selling, petrol-powered flagship, there wasn’t going to be a raft of tweaks even if the car needed them. There’s some truth in that, though Alfa will also know that there’s little need to fix what isn’t broken. Having a USP in 2024, when so much feels so samey, is to be celebrated. So it’s a similar, with a new front end, revised dash display, a rework of the dampers and a mechanical limited-slip diff at the back axle.
A brief go on a small circuit is enlightening to say the least, the Stelvio determined in Race to send as much torque rearwards as possible. All part of the madcap character of course, the fronts receiving just enough to mean that any oversteer doesn’t need very much correction. It’s fast, furious and undoubtedly fun - it promises to be a hoot in the rain - though does expose some limitations.
As the even more expensive prospect , and with family use surely in mind, a few of the grievances of this platform are harder to overlook than in the Giulia. It’s just not very nice inside for £90,000, and the refinement issues highlighted in the saloon are exacerbated by the bluffer shape. People probably aren’t choosing between the Quadrifoglios, though driving them back to back does highlight some stark differences.
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