Alfa Romeo sets crucial introductions from’

Posted on 04-11-2015 12:46 by sir_smokalot – 38 Comments”

Italians and deadlines….

Alfa Romeo has, according to Italian sources, forced the launch of his upcoming production models have to postpone. Depending on your perception of the environment will this news as a giant – or a total of not shocking happened.

According to Automotive News, that in the autogame more connected than a hip autoconcept, suppliers let them know that the Giulia with a half a year, is postponed to a market launch in mid-2016. The SUV that the model is based would be 9 months thrown back to the beginning of 2017. For the development of 8 new Alfa’s is 5 billion, some of that is coming from the f*ck you Ferrari money on Wall Street when raked together.

Giulia QV

The Giulia QV was in all ways a rush job: he had to and would be with Alfa’s 105-year anniversary to be presented, and the plan was the car at the end of this year at the dealer. Everything in the introduction, you could notice that the car just not finished yet was, and the long silence that followed spoke volumes. In that respect I envy the development team: they had to be in a superkrap time frame with limited resources as an M4 killer from the stomping ground. Admittedly: the hyped public opinion, she helped enormously, but the public opinion will not for that there are faster cars of the tape reels.

There would be after the QV more common models will be revealed. First there was still talk of the IAA in Frankfurt (september 2015), but all this was quickly Geneva (march 2016), a half a year later. Please note, this is all wandelgangpraat, Alfa holds itself to the jaws. We know not whether there are actually non-QV-Giulia’s on the Swiss stock exchange, but expect it.

Of delay…more delay

FCA boss Marchionne was already the king of the eternally deferred models (Alfa Romeo 4C: check, Maserati Levante: check), and outgoing models, without successor, and this is not improving. I still have nothing but love for that man (#nohomo), but the only constant in his conduct, it seems on the test of the patience of the consumer and autojournalist.

The 400,000 alfas in 2018

We’ll say it yet again: in 2018 is going to Alpha, according to Fiat boss Marchionne to 400,000 cars to sell in 2014, there were 68.000 put aside. Marchionne is still firmly convinced that this will succeed, what is here in the newsroom, the presumption is raised that Marchionne actually Victor Muller is with a difficult Mission:Impossible-mask on. You both men sometimes at the same time in the same place? I rest my case..

If Alpha is this number, however, gets I promise hereby solemnly a delicious cake for Marchionne to bake or are lieveligskostje to cook, but as the flag now bijhangt the chef’s hat in the closet.