Larry Dominique, Alfa Romeo senior vice chairman and head of North America, used a LinkedIn put up to set the countdown clock on the model’s Quadrifolgio fashions right here. He wrote, “The chance to order a 2024 Giulia Quadrifoglio or Stelvio Quadrifoglio will near North America on the finish of April 2024. The final inner solely combustion powered Quadrifoglio fashions for U.S. and Canada will exit the Cassino plant in June 2024.” That offers customers about 10 weeks to position an order for the most popular variations of Alfa Romeo’s sedan and midsize SUV, and till late summer time to discover a recent instance on a vendor lot.
It is doable the internal-combustion-only Quadrifoglio is dying within the U.S. on its a hundred and first birthday, Italian racing driver Ugo Sivocci having had the four-leaf clover painted on his automobile for the 1923 Targa Florio. As we speak, the clover represents fashions powered by Alfa’s twin-turbocharged 2.9-liter V6, an engine mentioned to be impressed by Ferrari’s twin-turbo 3.9-liter V6. The six-cylinder makes 505 horsepower and 443 pound-feet of torque in typical type, the limited-edition Quadrifoglio Anniversario fashions produced final 12 months making 520 horsepower and selecting up the mechanical limited-slip differential derived from the sold-out, 540-horsepower Giulia GTA.
That is simply one other step within the automaker’s switch to an all-electric lineup, all the model’s launches from 2027 and thereafter meant to be electrical. This is not the tip of the Quadrifoglio, Dominique himself writing in that put up, “I look ahead to presenting the subsequent chapter within the four-leaf clover’s journey.” Successive iterations will get some type of electrical help at least, and maybe flip into the 1,000-hp battery-electric 2026 Giulia Quadrifoglio that CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato hinted ultimately 12 months, with an 800-horsepower Veloce trim under and a 350-hp base trim.
Or, with PHEVs coming into vogue as a extra inexpensive center floor to the absolutely electrical promised land, it could be time to take somewhat extra inspiration from Ferrari — now a separate firm — and poke across the underside of the SF90 Stradale. Alfa noises and pure electrical driving on demand? Si, certamento.
