Alfa Romeo Giulietta – new pics

Extra footage of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta were launched.

The images display extra angles of the Alfa Romeo 147 substitute, plus shut up main points together with the entrance finish and lamp clusters.

The Giulietta replaces the 147 and has been thru 3 title adjustments already. At first known as 148, it was once then renamed Milano. That title has now been modified because of force from Alfa Romeo employees within the company’s house town of Milan, who’re unsatisfied with using the title following Alfa’s choice to relocate to Turin. The company has now settled on calling it Giulietta.

Alfa plans to release the Giulietta in Italy in past due March. The United Kingdom release will coincide with the Goodwood Competition of Pace in June, the place Alfa Romeo would be the featured marque.

The automobile might be made as a five-door best. It includes a Volkswagen Golfing-sized rear compartment however a coupe-like roofline and disguised rear door handles (as used at the 147) to fortify its carrying credentials. The form attracts evident affect from each the outgoing 147 and the brand new Alfa Romeo Mito supermini, nevertheless it seems extra fashionable than both.

It has essentially the most putting 3-dimensional model of Alfa’s protect grille but, supported by way of two distinguished decrease lateral air intakes. The muscular sculpting of the physique facets ends up in distinguished rear haunches, with dual exhausts and a diffuser underneath a rear panel whose LED tail-lights echo shapes pioneered within the Alfa Romeo 156.

Suspension is MacPherson struts on the entrance and a brand new multi-link design on the rear.

Inside of, the Giulietta echoes the twin-binnacle, driver-oriented fascia design that Alfas have historically used, however with the acquainted centre stack changed with a simplified, lateral panel. The inner makes use of novel trim textures and body-coloured steel to indicate a transformation from Alfa traditions.

At 4.35m in period, the automobile is 130mm longer than the Golfing or the 147. The two.63m wheelbase is set 50mm longer than the Golfing’s or 147’s, and despite the fact that its further period makes it glance low, it’s 50mm upper than the automobile it replaces.

Alfa engineers say rear seat area and boot capability are “the similar or larger” than a Golfing’s and that the total weight is “just a little bit heavier” than a similar 147’s, although the body-in-white is lighter.

Patrons might be presented 3 other designs of 16in, 17in and 18in wheel – a thick-spoke design, a multi-spoke and Alfa’s acquainted ‘phone dial’ design.

A variety of the Fiat Crew’s transversely fastened four-cylinder diesel and petrol engines, all turbocharged, will force the entrance wheels, starting from a 120bhp 1.4-litre petrol to a 170bhp 2.0-litre diesel. Later subsequent 12 months there might be a 230bhp Cloverleaf type.