{"id":31755,"date":"2023-08-16T22:43:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.italpassion.fr\/?p=31755"},"modified":"2023-08-16T22:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:50:46","slug":"alfa-romeo-tonale-vs-dodge-hornet-who-will-win-the-cousin-duel-on-the-us-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.italpassion.fr\/en\/alfa-romeo\/alfa-romeo-tonale-vs-dodge-hornet-qui-gagnera-le-duel-des-cousins-sur-le-marche-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa Romeo Tonale VS Dodge Hornet: who will win the duel of the cousins on the US market?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tonale arrives in the USA! <\/strong>And that's no mean feat! The Italian brand Alfa Romeo<\/a> is counting on this market to boost its sales. mixed sales for the first half of 2023<\/a>. But will he win the hearts of Americans?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a reminder, the United States is Alfa Romeo's second-largest market<\/a>. The Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio sell well there, because they are sporty models and there are many Italian car enthusiasts. And let's not forget that in the USA, models are not taxed as much as in Europe because of CO2... that helps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selling Tonale in North America may therefore seem like a good idea.<\/strong>to take sales of the model up another notch. But there are two small details that could derail the story...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is that the Tonale is a small SUV. One might think that this is a segment that is not really buoyant in the USA.<\/strong>. However, on a national scale, this represents 3 million units sold in 2022, with the Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V and Chevrolet Equinox in the top 3. The Jeep Compass, the Tonale's technical cousin, sold around 80,000 units in 2022. Alfa Romeo might be delighted to sell so many Tonales in the USA... but Jeep is far more popular there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other detail is its very close cousin, the Dodge Hornet. <\/strong>A copy-paste of the Tonale. Except that the first with a 268 hp engine starts at 30,735 $ while the second with a 250 hp PHEV engine starts at 42,995 $... they're both assembled in Italy in the same factory... no comment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Available to order from March 2023, the first Tonales arrived on the North American continent in May 2023<\/strong>. This leaves the whole of the second half of 2023 to see which of the two will gain the upper hand over the other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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