Genuine Alfa Romeo performance is fitted like a tailor-made garment with a distinctive design that expresses three particular features of Italian style: a sense of proportion, simplicity and surface quality finish. The entire creation pivots around the driver and the promise of an exhilarating driving experience with sensitive steering, responsive acceleration and prompt shifting and braking. Additionally, choosing rear or four-wheel drive is more than just a tribute to the most authentic roots of the Alfa Romeo legend: it is also a technical solution which offers high performance and astounding fun.
A further particularity of the model is the perfect 50/50 weight distribution across the two axles, the sophisticated suspension system (another Alfa Romeo exclusive) and the most direct steering available in the market. The unique, exclusive technical solutions include Torque Vectoring for outstanding stability control, Integrated Brake System to considerably reduce braking distance and Active Aero Splitter for active high-speed downforce management.
Finally, the Alfa Romeo Giulia combines extraordinary engine performance and ample use of ultralight materials, like carbon fibre, aluminium, aluminium composite and plastic, to obtain the best weight-to-power ratio (lower than 3), enabling it to achieve a dry weight of just 1,524 kg.
There are five elements that made Alfa Romeo one of the world’s most desirable automotive brands: distinctive Italian design, state-of-the-art, innovative engines, perfect 50/50 weight distribution, unique technical solutions and the best weight-to-power ratio. These are the essential ingredients to create an Alfa Romeo and which deliver the ‘meccanica delle emozioni’ (or ‘the mechanics of emotions’ in English). This distinctive line, used worldwide in Italian only, pays homage to the homeland where the legend was born over a century ago. And today still, the brand carries Italian-made pride on everyday roads, on the most famous race tracks and in the hearts of millions of enthusiasts.
Distinctive Italian design
An Alfa Romeo springs from the perfect balance of heritage, speed and beauty, making it the ultimate expression of Italian style in the automotive world. The new Giulia is no exception, combining legendary the Italian sense of proportions with simplicity and care for surface quality – this is the ‘skin’ that Alfa Romeo stylists have modelled with painstaking care on the mechanical parts.
In particular, the proportions are based on the technical architecture of the entire car: for Alfa Romeo the key elements were the 50/50 weight balance and rear wheel drive. In order to balance the weights perfectly, the engine and the mechanical parts are arranged between the two axles. This is why the Giulia has very short overhangs, a long bonnet and front wings, a retracted passenger compartment ‘settled’ on the drive wheels and muscular rear wings which visually mark the point where power is unleashed onto the road.
All this translates into a very generous wheelbase – the longest in its category – contained in one of the most compact bodies. These proportions draw the dynamic shape of an ellipsis in plan view. Furthermore, the rounded angles and the enveloping pillars convey momentum to the car, creating a ‘drop-shaped’ profile that is reminiscent of the Giulietta Sprint, one of the most beautiful cars ever made.
A second aspect of Italian style is simplicity, which shrouds what is in fact one of the most complex creative processes in industry: designing a car. It is up to style to conceal the long, complex work behind a simple, natural line that enhances elegant shapes and sophisticated Italian taste. This approach permeates the entire history of Alfa Romeo, and is expressed via clean, streaming streaks as always. For this reason, the new Alfa Romeo Giulia boasts a strong identity drawn in a few simple strokes – a line gouged along the sides which marks the doors and envelops the handles and, naturally, the legendary trefoil nose, possibly the most famous, recognisable style element in automotive history.
