Facelift for Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio

Highlights

• New headlights
• Revised grilles, bumpers and taillights
• Digital Instrumentation
• Successors go electric

While Stellantis presents one new model after another with plug-in hybrid or even all-electric powertrains, the FCA-ready Giulia and Stelvio can still go for it. A facelift should keep the Alfa Romeo Giulia presented in 2015 and the Stelvio published a year later up to date, but the two Italians are not renewed violently.

Alfa Romeo Stelvio

The question is whether it was also necessary to take a heavy-handed approach to the Giulia and Stelvio in terms of design. In any case, Alfa Romeo believes that a series of subtle changes were enough to keep the two models current. Both the Giulia and Stelvio get revised headlights. Although the basic shape of the light units has remained unchanged, their interpretation is new. The two Alfas get new adaptive LED matrix units with what Alfa Romeo calls the ‘3+3 design’. In the headlights we see three more or less separate modules. This doesn’t come completely out of the blue. The Alfa Romeo Tonale and earlier models such as the 159 and Brera also have headlights that consist of three elements. Dynamic turn signals are also new.

Alfa Romeo is making further changes to the ‘Tribolo’, Alfa’s designation for the combination of the distinctive and scudetto called shield-shaped central grille and the two horizontal grilles on either side of it in the bumper. They get fresh mesh work and the bumper work that houses the air intakes in the bumper is subtly redesigned. We find more small news on the back of the two. Alfa Romeo adapts the bumpers and gives the rear lights of the Stelvio completely colorless glazing. The rear lights of the Giulia are darker than before.

Alfa Romeo Giulia

Interior and engines

There are also subtle adjustments in the interior. For example, Alfa Romeo gives the Giulia and Stelvio for the first time a fully digital instrumentarium that measures 12.3 inches and can be set in three themes. Alfa Romeo also adapts the variants in which the pair is available. Like the Tonale, the Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio will soon be available as Super and Ti. The Super versions can be equipped with the Sprint package at an additional cost. The Ti flavors can also be upgraded with the Veloce package full of sporty delicacies. Alfa Romeo also talks about the arrival of a rear-wheel drive version with a 160-hp diesel engine, although the question is whether it will come to the Netherlands. Alfa Romeo also mentions the existence of the well-known 280 hp 2.0 petrol engine and mentions a diesel with 210 hp. The 200 hp petrol engine, like the mighty Quadrifoglio, will not return. A limited engine range.

Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio in the Netherlands

The updated Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio will be available from February 2023. Dutch prices will follow in the run-up to the market introduction. Alfa Romeo has sold a total of 796 units of the Stelvio in the Netherlands. The car experienced its peak year in 2018, when 247 units left the Dutch showrooms. The Italians do better business with the Giulia, of which 2,176 copies have been sold in the Netherlands. From 2025, Alfa Romeo will only sell electric cars, so it is obvious that the successors of the current Giulia and Stelvio will become EVs.