Earnings Report Shows Fiat Chrysler Giving Alfa Romeo All the Attention It Deserves - Which Apparently Isn't Much

Sports car fans had best brace themselves for a big letdown. Fiat Chrysler, currently pursuing a merger with France’s Groupe PSA, has given investors a peak at future high-end product, and two anticipated models seem to have fallen off the drawing board.

Those products would be the reborn Alfa Romeo GTV and 8C, which are nowhere to be seen in the brand’s near-future product timeline. However, if crossovers are your thing, you’re in luck.

In classic FCA tradition, the five-year product plan released in mid-2018 has apparently undergone a revision. Under a banner reading “Refocus brand on its strengths while efficiently deploying capital,” the plan now shows a refreshed Giulia sedan and Stelvio crossover appearing for 2021, joined at the same time by a C-segment CUV with an available plug-in hybrid powertrain. The latter model, riding atop the same platform used by the Jeep Renegade and Fiat 500X, is believed to borrow the Tonale name used by a recent concept vehicle.

Following the Tonale, Alfa plans to launch a B-segment CUV for 2022. This model will spawn a fully-electric variant.

All that said, there’s no sign of the GTV, a sporty 2+2 coupe that first appeared in Alfa’s lineup in the 1970s as an Alfetta trim. The model, which quickly dropped the Alfetta name and ended production in 1987, was resurrected in the mid-1990s as a slinky tourer, wrapping up production in 2004. FCA has planned to return the GTV name, with an appearance expected in 2021.

The 8C nameplate goes back much further, all the way to Alfa’s road and race cars of the early 1930s. A reborn two-seater bearing the 8C Competizione name appeared in 2007 in coupe and convertible guise, disappearing after 2010.

Whether FCA has postponed the introductions or scrapped the plan altogether isn’t certain, but the updated timeline and associated wording pretty much screams that the latter scenario is true. The company’s merger plans may have played a role in Alfa’s future product.

As reported by Autocar, FCA CEO Mike Manley said during an earnings call this week that Alfa’s future product lineup has been “significantly scaled back, with a corresponding reduction in capital spending.” Bummer for those not in the mood for a sometimes-temperamental sedan or a crossover.

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