Alfa Romeo

Today we have an 1987 Alfa Romeo Milano Platinum for you.

With Michigan frozen over, we escaped to Nashville to visit our friend Matt Kwiek—Mercedes restomod expert, shop owner, and the man behind the MARS name. At Kwiek Classics, Matt has made a name for himself by seamlessly blending modern Mercedes drivetrains with vintage chassis, creating some of the cleanest and most capable restomods out there.

Today we've got something that intrigues me -- a 1995 Alfa Romeo 164 QV.

Today we're going back to the '60s for an example of Italian sports-car beauty with this 1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Veloce.

We have one more sales report to bring you before going on break for the holiday. That would be Stellantis/FCA US.

In this week's podcast, I laid out my plan for how to fix Stellantis.

Today we bring you a 1988 Alfa Romeo Spider Graduate that's been restored from a non-running condition.

Sometimes, an otherwise fun-to-drive vehicle can be spoiled by its packaging. So it goes with the 2025 Alfa Romeo Tonale.

Buying an Italian car isn’t always the most logical of decisions, not when more rational options exist just a pencil's width away. The old Top Gear crowd always used to say that every gearhead needs to own at least one Alfa in their lifetime and, after a week with the Stelvio, I started to get what they were on about - even if this model has one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel.

See? Not exactly rational.

Stellantis has, like many automakers, been signaling that planned pivot toward all-electric vehicles hasn’t gone as intended. We recently covered rumors that HEMI V8s would be reentering production inside the United States and there is now evidence that Alfa Romeo doesn’t think its customers will go for performance EVs either.

Alfa Romeo stopped offering the Stelvio Quadrifoglio for the 2025 model year, cutting the SUV’s trim choices to two much milder variants. That will likely change with the introduction of the next-generation Stelvio, the debut of which Alfa’s CEO recently confirmed on social media.

Today we go back to the '70s with this 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV.

Today we've got a 1990 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce for your perusal.

Stellantis is allegedly shifting gears to better cater to the needs of the American market following the departure of Carlos Tavares as its executive officer. The company is signaling it might pull back on all-electric vehicles and may even begin to offer V8 engines again. But there is some conflicting information being presented as the company does what it can to improve public relations.

Today we're going way back in time for this right-hand drive 1964 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT.

Yet another automaker has announced plans to back off full electrification goals in favor of a mixed approach. Alfa Romeo said it would not continue with its goal to become fully electric by 2027, saying it will now pursue a “multi-energy” roadmap.

The Italian tripartite of Tonale, Stelvio, and Giulia will get a flamboyantly named special edition package for the 2025 model year.

Today we bring you a 1991 Alfa Romeo Spider that appears to have been recently restored.

Today we're going old school with this 1978 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce.

New product may be on the way to Alfa Romeo showrooms in this country, at least if plans advance as desired. Speaking earlier this month, the brand’s head of product said Alfa wants to trot the new all-electric Junior on a roadshow to American dealers this year.

Crossovers are boring, the thought goes. They just aren’t sporty.

That is often the case, too often really. But we all know that some are massaged and built for sporty driving. And while some OEM claims that a crossover is sporty are simply false, that’s not necessarily the case with the 2024 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Competizione.

Welcome back to drive notes, which is a Cliff Note's review of vehicles that are currently in, or recently were in, my possession for a test.

Today we have the 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale eAWD.

Following criticisms and potential legal actions stemming from the Italian Minister for Business, Alfa Romeo has opted to rename the recently revealed Milano crossover. The subcompact model will now be called the “Junior,” which sounds like the kind of name someone comes up with for a small car out of sheer desperation.

The Italian Minister for Business has criticized Stellantis for manufacturing the Alfa Romeo Milano outside of the country, suggesting that the automaker had likely violated the law.

Alfa Romeo has revealed its very first all-electric model, the subcompact Milano crossover. However, the automaker likewise plans on offering a hybrid version that mates a 1.2-liter three-cylinder turbo to a 28-horsepower electric motor attached to the six-speed dual-clutch gearbox. While a that makes the model a 48-volt mild-hybrid, it should help Alfa cope with stringent emissions regulations and also serve as the volume model for numerous markets.

Today we go back to Italy for this 1995 Alfa Romeo 164 Quadrifoglio.

Today we bring you a show car -- this 1969 Alfa Romeo 1750 GTV.

I took a four-day trip to Northern England a couple of weeks ago, primarily to visit one of the only American-style self-service junkyards in the UK. While there, I also dropped by quite a few traditional dismantlers (known as "breaker's yards" over there), and one of them was Sherburn Motor Spares in Leeds, a business specializing in Italian and French vehicles. While there, I found a special-edition Alfa Romeo that never made it to our side of the Atlantic: a UK-only Brera S, hot-rodded by Prodrive.

We're back after a couple days out of office on TTAC bidness. Today we bring you a 1974 Alfa Romeo GTV.

News broke earlier this week that Stellantis would pull out of auto shows, including the upcoming Chicago Auto Show, for the foreseeable future.

Today we have another Alfa. This 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider Graduate has about 50,000 miles on the odometer and a clean title.

With the exception of the mirrors and perhaps the Blaupunkt audio, it appears to be all original.

Shopping for a car is hard, even for those who live and breathe automobiles. Those of you reading these pages on the day of publication are the ones I’m talking about - you have a compulsion to consume media about your favorite four-wheel contraptions and discuss said contraptions down in the comments. Most of you have opinions on brands and models and often have experience with them to back up those opinions. 

Imagine, however, being someone who simply needs a car, but doesn’t really give a damn about cars. How do those people figure out what to buy? Those folks, if they’re reading these pages, have stumbled here via a search engine months down the line. These buyers have a monstrous task ahead of them, winnowing and sorting all sorts of data and opinions into a buying decision. 

How does a brand like Alfa Romeo target either of these buyers? Most of the enthusiasts in my first paragraph have opinions on a sports sedan like the 2024 Alfa Romeo Giulia you see before you based either upon a historical impression of an automaker that left these shores before the O.J. Simpson trial was decided, or perhaps a few of you have sampled the current incarnation. The other buyer, without automotive enthusiasm whatsoever, likely knows little to nothing of the marque or model at all. How is a car like this going to manifest its way into either of these buyer’s garages, especially in an era where we can actually foresee the end of gasoline-powered vehicles?

Though electric vehicles can be brutally quick and offer staggering performance, there’s nothing like the sound of a howling exhaust and a rowdy gas engine. The Alfa Romeo Stelvio and Giulia Quadrifoglio have one of the best-sounding V6 engines around, and the automaker recently announced a new appearance package for the pair that brings sinister styling to the supremely powerful Italians.

Today's UCOTD is a rally-ready 1974 Alfa Romeo Berlina 2000.

We're going back to the older Italian car well for today's UCOTD, so brace your wallet. We're featuring a 1989 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a stop-drive notice for plug-in versions of the Dodge Hornet and Alfa Romeo Tonale. Vehicles are alleged to pose a fire risk due to improperly installed battery connections. Stellantis and the NHTSA have warned that this could result in a fire hazard even when the vehicle is parked. 

Today's UCOTD is older than your humble author -- just barely -- and it shows us some Italian goodness. It's a 1979 Alfa Romeo Spider.

If you’ve been in a recent model-year vehicle, the number of screens and digital displays can be overwhelming. While they’re becoming prevalent, big screens aren’t for everyone, nor are they for every automaker. Alfa Romeo boss Jean-Philippe Imparato recently told Autocar that his brand’s customers don’t want giant displays and don’t care about all the digital assistance features many new cars come with.

Alfa Romeo confirmed that its next halo model will debut at the end of August. CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato confirmed the debut during a Chinese event for the updated Giulia and Stelvio. 

"This project is a dream come true, inspired by a daring team that wanted to achieve something unique,” said the executive. 

It might be easy to poke a bit of fun at cars that use a pot of paint and trim variations to mark a company anniversary but there’s no arguing that, when done right, people tend to line up for the chance to buy one.

Case in point – all 100 units of the limited-edition Giulia and Stelvio Quadrifoglio 100th Anniversary models sold out in every region the models were offered.

Two Alfas in a row! That might not happen again for a long, long time. This Connecticut-based 1979 Alfetta sedan is for sale for $9,999.

Today's UCOTD is an Alfa Romeo GTV6 with just under 80,000 miles on the clock, coming to us by way of Rochester, New York.

Say what you will – and many have – about the name Alfa Romeo selected for its new compact crossover, there’s no denying the thing fits well into the brand’s current design language. Alfa intends for it to fit well into a customer’s monthly balance sheet as well, announcing today it expects the Tonale to run 33 miles solely on electricity and return a rating of 77 MPGe.

The Alfa Romeo Tonale is one of those vehicles that I expected to dislike and was quickly won over by. Despite being a rolling conflict of powertrains, purpose, and badge engineering, it’s about as enjoyable as a small crossover gets.

Alfa Romeo is not known for its vehicles’ efficiency or environmental consciousness, but the company is heading toward an all-electric future like many others. The automaker’s North American CEO, Larry Dominique, told The Drive that Alfa’s working on an electric SUV for the American market and promised that it would be different from the sea of increasingly homogenous vehicles hitting the market.

The brand from Italy rolls into the next model year with a trio of models under its finely crafted leather belt, starting with the new Tonale and followed by the Giulia sedan plus Stelvio crossover. Fresh off the line are Competizione variants of the latter two, in addition to trims marking a centenary date.

While Milan Design Week is primarily focused on showcasing the latest representations of furniture you couldn’t possibly afford, sometimes a car or two gets thrown into the mix and Alfa Romeo had one hell of an entrant prepared this year. But it wasn’t a new design.

Instead, the Italian automaker rolled out the Carabo concept from the 1968 Paris Motor Show. As one of the first vehicles to pioneer the wedge shape that became synonymous with supercars in later decades, the Alfa holds a massive amount of historical significance. However, there may be more going on than the automaker simply wanting to take a trip down memory lane.

Despite rumors of internal friction between its brands, Stellantis is sharing electrification technology among the companies it owns. The Dodge Hornet borrows heavily from the Alfa Romeo Tonale, and a new report from Autocar suggested that we’ll see ideas flowing the other way with a new electric Alfa crossover.

Alfa Romeo will reportedly be electrifying with Giulia sport sedan with the top-trim Quadrifoglio boasting 1,000 horsepower according to CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato.

Today's QOTD is pretty self-explanatory. What vehicle that debuted here in Chicago caused you to sit up and take notice?

Alfa Romeo’s Quadrifoglio models offer the brand’s best performance, and the storied nameplate celebrates 100 years in 2023. To celebrate, Alfa redesigned the iconic Quadrifoglio badge with commemorative dates and updated colors. The automaker is also planning a party on June 25 to celebrate Quadrifoglio day, with a parade and flash mob open to Alfa Romeo clubs.

Alfa Romeo doesn’t sell anywhere near the number of vehicles that other brands under the Stellantis umbrella do, but the storied Italian automaker appears to have a hit with its new Tonale SUV. The company said it would increase production capacity to meet the demand for the upcoming vehicle, which is due here later this year.

Here's your chance to own a car that has a small part in car-show history. This 1991 Alfa Romeo 164S was once stolen from a Concurs.

If you’ve been looking for an all-wheel drive electrified compact crossover with Italian flavor, well, your choices have been rather limited. That changes with the 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale, a plug-in hybrid with a starting price of $42,995.

Dodge just pulled back the curtain on its newest vehicle, the Hornet crossover, but there are already rumblings of discontent from other brands within the Stellantis family. Dodge based much of the Hornet’s underpinnings on the Alfa Romeo Tonale, a move many within the Italian brand are unhappy with.

Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series.

Enzo Ferrari. You probably know who he is, thanks to the eponymous car brand he started in 1947 — but what you probably don’t know is that il Commendatore was already a legend, years before he hung out his own shingle … and the twin-engine, Alfa Romeo Bimotore racer from 1935 is a big part of the reason why.

This wasn’t some crazy, “let’s see if we can” sort of project, either. This twin-engine terror was born out of necessity — the necessity to beat the German Auto Union and Mercedes-Benz “Silver Arrows”, anyway.