{"id":13646,"date":"2021-08-30T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T02:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/?p=13646"},"modified":"2021-08-30T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T02:06:14","slug":"alfa-romeo-and-stellantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/buy-new-car\/alfa-romeo-and-stellantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa Romeo and Stellantis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is change in the air for Alfa Romeo.\u00a0 At the beginning of 2021, a multinational automotive manufacturing corporation called Stellantis was formed on the basis of a 50-50 cross-border merger between the Italian\/American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the French PSA Group.\u00a0 The headquarters of Stellantis is in Amsterdam, Netherlands.\u00a0 Alfa Romeo will be among the first of the 14 brands of Stellantis vehicles that will take a full-electric approach to its new cars.\u00a0 Mentioned at a meeting recently, the new Stellantis group will see Alfa Romeo become a fully electric brand that will compete globally as early as 2027 – its key markets being that of China, Europe and the US.<\/p>\n

It is possible that the first all-electric Alfa Romeo could be an electric subcompact crossover that will arrive 2023\/24 and combine with similar models from Fiat and Jeep.\u00a0 Stellantis has announced plans to introduce four electric platforms that will eventually cover most vehicles across the company’s 14 brands, and the models should have a power range of 300 \u2013 500 miles (480 \u2013 800 km).\u00a0 Alfa Romeo will use a platform known as the STLA Large, which will also be used by Maserati. \u00a0There will also be platforms known as STLA Small and STLA Medium.\u00a0 Stellantis says that Alfa Romeo will pursue two battery chemistries for its vehicles.\u00a0 Right-hand drive development was also to be assured, so all future EV Alfa Romeo models could easily be driven in Australia.<\/p>\n

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Alfa Romeo Tonale<\/p><\/div>\n

Next year we should see Alfa Romeo offering its first plug-in hybrid, which will be exciting. \u00a0I\u2019m a big fan of hybrid technology.\u00a0 The model will most likely be a compact crossover based on the recent Tonale concept.<\/p>\n

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Alfa Romeo Tonale<\/p><\/div>\n

Until the arrival of the Alfa Romeo Tonale, Alfa Romeo Australia will still enjoy the fantastic-to-drive Alfa Romeo Giulia sedan and Alfa Romeo Stelvio mid-size SUV. \u00a0For 2021, the Stelvio SUV and Giulia sedan boast some more new technology inside the cars, which includes Level Two advanced driver assistance systems such as traffic sign recognition, intelligent speed control, active blind-spot assist and driver attention assist.<\/p>\n

Currently, the entry level Stelvio puts out 148 kW of power and 330 Nm of torque from the 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine.\u00a0 You should be able to buy a new one of these for around the $65k mark.<\/p>\n

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Alfa Romeo Giulia<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is change in the air for Alfa Romeo.\u00a0 At the beginning of 2021, a multinational automotive manufacturing corporation called Stellantis was formed on the basis of a 50-50 cross-border merger between the Italian\/American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the French PSA Group.\u00a0 The headquarters of Stellantis is in Amsterdam, Netherlands.\u00a0 Alfa Romeo will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120,86,52,55,4923,4048,54,57,4049],"tags":[772,7045,7050,7052,7048,7051,7044,6405,7040,7016,7047,7046,6808,7049],"class_list":["post-13646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive-design","category-blog","category-buy-new-car","category-car-sales","category-electric-vehicles-evs","category-european-cars","category-makes-models","category-manufacturer-news","category-new-cars","tag-alfa-romeo","tag-alfa-romeo-and-stellantis","tag-alfa-romeo-ev-cars","tag-alfa-romeo-tonale","tag-automotive-groups","tag-italian-brands","tag-new-alfa-romeo-cars","tag-new-ev-cars","tag-new-ev-suv","tag-new-evs","tag-new-stellantis-merger","tag-stallantis-group","tag-stellantis","tag-stellantis-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13651,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646\/revisions\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}