The Italian car manufacturer may have to keep the engine because customers do not want to let it go
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- The head of the Alfa Romeo Public Relations Department let slip that the brand could retain its internal combustion V6.
- Customer demand could be at the heart of the decision to continue using this engine.
- This could end up being exclusive to Quadrifoglio models, but this is normal for the course.
Car manufacturers are known to minimize the influence they really have on the market. They like to speak of “following consumer demand”, but in reality, their team -oriented teams spend a lot of time and efforts to convince the public to buy what they want to buy.
However, from time to time, customers make enough noise so that even companies most obsessed with profit must listen. It is the type of power that could force Alfa Romeo to keep its V6 with double turbocharger of 2.9 liters, which produces 505 hp (377 kW / 512 PS) and 443 LB-PI (600 nm) of torque in its current form.
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Alfa is already going in a direction on which customers are not exactly delighted. We already know that the Giulia is likely to come back not like a sedan but as a kind of hybrid between a crossing and a sedan. In addition to that, we are sure that hybrids and motorcycle groups EV are also on their way, as the company itself has recently confirmed. Which raises the question: what form will the quadrifoglio take at the top of the beach?
The hesitation of the Alfa to obtain electricity
Speak with CarCristiano Fiorio, head of marketing and communication at Alfa Romeo, suggested that despite certain reports suggesting the opposite, quadrifoglio will not fill up as an electric.
“Personally, I don’t see quadrifoglio EV. I see a quadrifoglio which has the sound of a real engine. In my opinion.
Why not go in this direction when the brand Brand Bubling Dodge so easily dropped its sacred V8 into the new charger and replaced it with electric motors? The answer lies in Alfa’s customers. “This is something that is expressed by fans – by customers – because the penetration of Quadrifoglio on many markets is very interesting. So we will have to continue to give customers what they want,” he said.
We spied on the new Alfa Romeo Giulia 2026 during the test. (Sh proshots)
Alfa’s V6 always has a future
In particular, Fiorio did not specifically say that the 2.9 -liter V6 would continue in its current form, but it approached as close as possible. When asked which engine a quadrifoglio should have, here is what he answered.
“If I tell you yes or no, I tell you exactly what engine we will have in Giulia and Stelvio-but I tell you that you have said something that is not far from our thought,” he told the magazine. .
He continued: “In the end, if you express a high version of the Motopropulser group for the Giulia and Stelvio who – passing – are large cars, I would not see two, three, four -cylinders … I don’t know. Maybe it’s easier with six cylinders.”
Fiorio even went so far as to specify that the V6 could be integrated into the large STLA platform on which the new Stelvio and Giulia are based – which is definitely excellent news for alfa fans, as well as for oil tankers who would not be died in an EV, no matter how much it could be or how good it takes care.
