Alexandre
In an interview given to the newspaper La Tribune, Jean-Philippe Imparato, the new boss ofAlfa Romeogave some interesting information, including the number of Alfa Romeo models by 2025, which will be 5.
"We are starting with one launch per year, which should lead us to a range of five models by 2025. [...] Every year, I will publicly announce our product agenda for the following year, and we will stick to it."
The future models of Alfa Romeo, it's a subject that we have often talked about, especially in our article on the Alfa Romeo's future 100 % electric range.
So, if we follow Mr. Imparato's rational logic, with one new model per year starting in 2022, the Alfa Romeo range by 2025 should be :
- Alfa Romeo Giulia - sedan - restyling 2022
- Alfa Romeo Stelvio D-SUV - restyling 2022
- Alfa Romeo Tonale C-SUV - 2022
- Alfa Romeo Brennero B-SUV - 2023
- Alfa Romeo Giulietta - compact - 2024 (based on DS4 / 308 / Astra)
Then, a large sedan, sister of the DS9 or an E-SUV sister of the DS7 crossback could be in the program for after 2025.
"Initially, Alfa Romeo's priority will not be to launch small series. "
When it was mentioned the launch of coupes, spiders, etc.. Jean-Philippe Imparato was clear that this could be on the agenda but that it is not the priority.
So we'll have to wait until after 2025 to see such models announced... if the brand reaches its goals by then!
To read the full article, please visit The Tribune.
The future of the brand seems to be getting brighter!
However, you make a small mistake in the article. The Giulietta is a compact car, like the DS4 and 308. The Corsa, on the other hand, is a city car.
I wanted to say Opel astra and not corsa, I correct
However, Alfa coupes, spiders and cabriolets would be welcome.
Fed up with SUVs!
Coupé, station wagon, an Alfa must look elegant, but not like a van made up like a transvestite!
Totally agree with you, but the priority is to fill the coffers, even at the expense of its soul, but if it works, then why not! Just like the SUVs saved the Porsche 911 and Boxter, but they existed before, while at Alfa, it is dull, since the Brera and Spyder!
"We are starting with one launch per year, which should lead us to a range of five models by 2025. [...] Every year, I will publicly announce our product agenda for the following year, and we will stick to it."
The late Sergio Marchionne, get out of that body!
Marchionne was 10 models every 2 years. RIP
What a disappointment with the promising and already aborted arrival of Mr. Imparato at the head of Alfa Romeo.
Decided to order an Alfa Giulia Sprint in stromboli grey and tobacco interior (this combination is splendid), the dealership informs me that ALFA ROMEO only offers four basic body colors. Stromboli grey is definitely excluded, and tobacco leather is no longer offered.
How can a premium vehicle costing more than 50,000 euros offer fewer color palettes than a Dacia?
The dismay of the sales people is as great as the alfist.
What a disappointment with the promising and already aborted arrival of Mr. Imparato at the head of Alfa Romeo.
Decided to order an Alfa Giulia Sprint in stromboli grey and tobacco interior (this combination is splendid), the dealership informs me that ALFA ROMEO only offers four basic body colors. Stromboli grey is definitely excluded, and tobacco leather is no longer offered.
How can a premium vehicle costing more than 50,000 euros offer fewer color palettes than a Dacia?
The dismay of the sales people is as great as the alfist.
Moreover, the online configurator always proposes these models, options. What a waste of time, moreover the concession discovers with fright these decisions, incomprehensible at this level. I will definitely switch to the BMW range, the break is announced after 20 years and 6 new Alfa ...
They'd better move to Alfa to get back all the customers who have left for the competition, including me, who left for Mazda after 40 years due to the lack of succession to the Giulietta ...... Moreover, I don't think that Alfa enthusiasts will be satisfied with a simple replastering of the 308 or DS4 with, in addition, 3-cylinder PSA engines of questionable reliability.
It is true that the press, in general, does not report too much on the problems encountered on this famous 3 cylinders!
The future Alfa will be, depending on the segment, on the ex-PSA Stellantis platforms, or on Giorgio.
No other alternative. And of course 100% electrical as already announced.
Well, I think it's an extraordinary opportunity to get Alfa back into the race: its reputation as an engine manufacturer is a memory in the minds of aficionados, and trying to return to the glory days would have been time-consuming and very expensive.
In this new situation, where the engine is no longer a differentiating factor, Alfa can capitalize on its fabulous heritage and bring out super sexy cars that will stand out from other premium cars.
This will offend the "historic channel" Alfists, but since they are not the ones who buy new, it doesn't matter.
And potential buyers in the next decade won't care that 60 years ago Alfa sedans were powered by a bialbero. They will buy an Alfa because they want to, that's all.
On the other hand, time is short but I think we can trust the Stellantis team to develop quickly and correctly
It would be better if the brand constantly reminded them of this through design and derivative products, because without exclusive technical solutions (which would have to be developed, even for electric cars) I don't see what will differentiate it from the Chinese brands. The fact of having won the first F1 grand prix in history or of having produced iconic models is the kind of detail that makes the difference.
Hello,
Not necessarily agree with you.
Alfist (I'm lucky enough to have been able to buy new: 147, Mito, 159, Giulia and Stelvio) even if I agree that Alfists can't live only with the past, the STELLANTIS project scares me.
The Giorgio platform, which was supposedly one of the best in the world, will not be renewed at the expense of a PSA platform. The future Giulietta will be a base of future 308, etc. ...
In the end, they want to remake Alfa with Peugeot, so no more souls.
I disagree. As a "historic" Alfist, I don't see the point of a Giulietta clone of the Peugeot 308 or the Opel Astra (which are certainly good machines for the new times where automotive pleasure rhymes with hybridization, electrification and Star Wars dashboards). As for me, I am in the process of buying a Giulia Veloce... It will be my 15th Alfa since the 1979 Alfasud TI (!) and the last Alfa of a disappearing era.
That being said, I hope without much faith that the electric Alfa will have a real personality in terms of style and performance, and that they will not be Italianized copies of the other brands of the Stellantis Group.
No station wagon based on the sedan. No coupe, and no roadster.
I understand that SUV's are very popular (even if I hate this fake 4×4, unable to cross anything but a sidewalk), but all the same, it's forgotten a bit quickly the history of the brand. Fortunately, there's the sedan and the compact, otherwise there wouldn't be much soul in it.
A bit of a disappointment for me.
We have differences of opinion but a common passion and that's the most important thing to me.
On the other hand, I would like to correct one point: Giorgio will not be abandoned at all, on the contrary, and will be used in particular for future large Alfa cars, as confirmed by Jean-Philippe Imparato.
The medium and small models will be on platforms common to all Stellantis, as is the norm in all automotive groups, so I'm not shocked.
By the way, the Alfa's you rightly loved were derived from Fiat platforms 😉
Italian press article,
Alfa Romeo sales down sharply in 2021.
We hope that 2021 will remain the last year of a long crisis for Alfa Romeo. The confirmation comes from the production data from the recent Fim Cisl survey that certifies the difficulties of the Italian plants of the Stellantis group that have to face models characterized by a decline in sales and an increasingly complicated crisis of chips that causes a shortage of semiconductors in recent months.
I wanted to answer Dan and not Jujujo, but I skipped a line, sorry!
Alfa need a nice full sized hatchback replacement, for the brera what they unceremoniously ditched back im 08' for starters. They have no droptop models whatsoever which in my opinion is crazy for an alfa-romeo! Lastly a full sized coupe is also desperately needed, not yet another SUV!!🥱