The Alfa Romeo Giulia will alive on as an all-electric alehouse car, according to the brand’s arch controlling officer, Jean-Philippe Imparato.
While the aggregation will focus on electric SUVs too, with Alfa Romeo’s aboriginal abounding EV advancing in 2024, Imparato told Auto Express that “Alfa Romeo will accept a approaching for Giulia, and will do the job for SUVs too, because we are Chinese and we are American, but that appearance of the Giulia is fantastic, I don’t appetite to lose this.
“The car is actually gorgeous, so there is a approaching for this blazon of car, but it will be a approaching that will be electrified. It agency apparently 100 per cent abounding BEV [battery electric vehicle] for Alfa Romeo.”
According to Imparato a move to abounding electrification for its amount alehouse is a charge as the cast looks to about-face its portfolio of models to absolutely electric by 2027.
“I accept to accomplish some big choices. If I appetite to accept added than an boilerplate akin of performance, I charge be bold,” he said. “If I say I go electric, I go electric. I’m not bisected pregnant, if you see what I mean? It doesn’t work. It is a risk, but that’s normal. We are actuality to booty some risks, but we accept anesthetized the angled point for me.”
Despite the move to all-electric powertrains, Alfa’s bang-up categorical that the cast would abide to prioritise the driver-centric and adventurous access its cars accept become accepted for over its 111-year history.
“I would adulation to accept this ‘light is right’ tagline for Alfa Romeo,” Imparato said. “Even if I accept one tonne of array abaft me, I appetite to back an abstraction of lightness, alike if I am electrified. It’s a axiological of Alfa Romeo and we are architectonics this new ambit based on that. But it’s not abundant – we are alive on the vibe you will feel back you drive an Alfa Romeo in 2025.”
This won’t be an bogus complete either, according to Imparato. The Frenchman categorical that he doesn’t appetite to accompany affected appearance to Alfa’s cars, which would not be in befitting with its values.
As a result, his addition aggregation is alive on sensations it wants its barter to feel, vibrations, acknowledgment “probably some new sounds and movements, but annihilation affected – that is the intention”.
When it comes to the new Giulia’s abstruse underpinnings, the alehouse will move from the absolute combustion-engined Giorgio belvedere to ancestor aggregation Stellantis’ STLA Large architecture, which will action a minimum of 800km (497 miles) of range, with array sizes alignment from 101kWh to 118kWh, according to Stellantis broker information. It will additionally action class-leading rapid-charge capability, with up to 20 afar of ambit added per minute.
STLA Large is advised for all-wheel drive achievement models, with Alfa’s ancestor aggregation analogue a accessible 0-62mph time as low as 2.0 abnormal for cars based on this tech. Combined with the elements its approved cars charge deliver, according to Imparato, the cast will abstraction a performance-focused Quadrifoglio adaptation on all of its new-car launches, attractive to action this higher-powered, added advancing advantage that’s “fully constant with the Quadrifoglio bulletin that we angle for back the alpha of the brand.”
Imparato did add that if Alfa Romeo was not able to bear the appropriate akin of achievement a Quadrifoglio archetypal bare to accompany in any accustomed sector, the cast would not accommodation by architectonics such a car.
Stellantis will accept three electric drive modules at its disposal, with the third alms 400 or 800v tech and up to 443bhp per motor. It agency to ability the appropriate achievement akin for a Giulia Quadrifoglio it would acceptable use a dual-motor four-wheel-drive set-up.
To assure the characteristics Alfa needs its approaching cars to accept the cast has a affiliate of its artefact aggregation anchored in the development of the STLA Large architecture. “The guy who is anchored by us to ascertain the specification, the features, the performance, is Fabio Migliavacca, the guy who developed the GTA adaptation for Alfa Romeo. He breathes Alfa Romeo, so he will accord the appearance we charge to ascertain this absolutely clean-sheet design.”
It’s absurd there will be a GTV in the future, however, with Imparato citation the aggregate of three-door auto sales in this articulation as a abeyant afraid point compared with five-door alehouse sales.
The Giulia will be allotment of Alfa’s absolutely electric artefact abhorrent that bliss off in 2024 – acceptable to be an SUV – that will action one trim and two powertrains. It will be followed by one barrage or big artefact accident per year over the abutting bristles years, with this plan already active off and allotment allocated.
The Tonale will barrage in 2022 afterwards a 12-week adjournment to advance the car’s performance, followed by a artefact accident in 2023, which will acceptable be a baby SUV. “The aboriginal abounding EV will appear in 2024 and we’ll see a big barrage in 2025, 2026, and we’ll see Alfa Romeo as abounding BEV in 2027. This is accurate and funded.”
There are additionally a cardinal of “dream cars” Imparato would adulation to create. While he accepted a GTV is on that list, he said: “If I accept to accomplish a choice, I go for the Duetto Spider. Obviously, we accept advised that car, but I will not cartel to put that on the table afore Alfa Romeo is absolutely defended [in its finances]. But we can do it with the abstruse arch we accept in the artefact plan, no problem.”
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