Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio – design
The Giulia is handsome and oozes aggression
The most visible part of the 2024 updates are the new ‘3+3’ headlights with adaptive full LED matrix headlights. They adjust their beams constantly. Alfa Romeo UK’s product manager suggests that drivers can select main beam as soon as they set off for a journey at night.
A feature of the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrofoglio from launch is the carbonfibre Active Aero Splitter at the front, which is claimed to provide downforce at high speeds, and is able to actively vary the air flowing underneath the car to enhance stability. From the rear the quad exhausts, pronounced diffuser and carbon spoiler give the Giulia some real aggression.
A set of 19-inch wheels are standard, with a choice of new, different designs for 2024. Red brake calipers are an option. There are now six exterior colours: standard is the non-metallic Alfa Red, and optional are metallic Etna Red, Misano Blue, Vesuvio Grey, Vulcano Black and Montreal Green (based on the shade applied to the Alfa Romeo Montreal in the ’70s).
The Giulia was designed with a long wheelbase – longer than that of other cars in the class at the time – and Alfa claims a 50:50 weight distribution.
The original design for the Alfa Romeo Giulia – and the Quadrifoglio version – was led by ex-Pininfarina chief Lorenzo Ramaciotti. The Quadrifoglio was the first Giulia variant to be unveiled, and Alfa Romeo says that its design, and engineering, was signed off first, before the regular, more humdrum Giulia models; a ‘top-down’ approach that is unusual in the saloon car world.
Which rather sums up this unusual, charismatic car that is like little else in the current market.
