Alfa Romeo To Reveal Next-Generation Stelvio SUV Later This Year
Alfa Romeo stopped offering the Stelvio Quadrifoglio for the 2025 model year, cutting the SUV’s trim choices to two much milder variants. That will likely change with the introduction of the next-generation Stelvio, the debut of which Alfa’s CEO recently confirmed on social media.
The new Stelvio is expected to debut later this year, with a market launch in 2026. It will ride on Stellantis’ STLA Large platform and should arrive with electrified options, including hybrids and a potential battery-electric variant. The Giulia sedan is also scheduled for an overhaul in 2026 and should utilize the same architecture.
Alfa has already teased electric Stelvio models, but it has since backed off its aggressive electrification plans, indicating that we’ll likely see some internal combustion in the SUV lineup. That said, the top Quadrifoglio performance will probably only arrive as an EV, though it could have upwards of 1,000 horsepower. Alfa’s expected to release the hotter variants much later, sometime in 2027.
The Alfa Romeo Tonale offers electrified power, so it’s not a foreign concept for the automaker. That said, a big part of the Quadrifoglio brand’s draw is the sound its Ferrari-derived gas engines deliver at every turn, so it will be interesting to see how Alfa addresses that with the transition to electric power. Let’s just hope it’s different than the wild “exhaust” system Alfa’s corporate cousin Dodge employed in the new Challenger Daytona.
[Images: Alfa Romeo]
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If it is an SUV or a crossover, I´m not interested.
Alfa's customer will be thrilled!