The Alfa Romeo Giulietta would stop production this year
After the appearance of the new Giulia and Stelvio three years ago, it seemed that the Giulietta had its days numbered within the Alfa Romeo range, but its constant sales and the absence of a formal replacement kept it in production.
However, Alfa Romeo had decided to remove it from the market to accommodate the brand's new SUV, the Tonale, presented as a concept at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show and already filtered as a production model at the end of that same year, and which before of the Coronavirus was scheduled to appear ending this 2020.
Although there is no official confirmation from Alfa Romeo, several European media have already put the Giulietta's immediate headstone, considering that the Cassino plant (Italy) has been stopped for a long time by the mandatory quarantine and that the null sales registered by all the brands ensure an available stock for the next months.
In addition, it must be considered that since its launch in 2010, the Giulietta never received a deep update, but only some minor restyling (the last one in 2019), which made it lose strength in the European markets. In fact, in 2019 only 15 thousand units were sold, so the brand had already lowered production from 70 to 40 units per day.
And now, when industrial activities in Italy return in May, the beautiful compact will probably not be produced again and the transition from the assembly line to the new platform that will give life to the Tonale will begin. F CA has invested more than 800 million euros to reconvert this plant to manufacture not only the new Biscione model but also an SUV for Maserati and a third one that will appear in 2022, a compact SUV in the B segment, also from Alfa Romeo.
That, without taking into account the industrial decisions that can be made once the merger with PSA is approved.
What is known about the Alfa Romeo Tonale is that just like the Stelvio, its name derives from a mountain route in the Alps. It will use the same platform as the Jeep Renegade and Compass, and by size, it will position itself below the Stelvio, in competition with models such as the BMW X1 / X2 and the Audi Q3, among others.
It will be offered with turbocharged engines, 1.4-liter gasoline with 170 Hp and a 2.0 diesel with the same level of power, and which will dazzle with a plug-in hybrid variant similar to the one used by both Jeeps in Europe.
