When you heard Alfa Romeo was building an SUV, you expected it to be a one-trick cavallino, but when you saw it, you were convinced it would be just a jacked-up Giulia, not a Jeep.
Alfa Romeo makes sports cars. Always has. It wasn't unreasonable, then, to assume such a company hopping on the SUV bandwagon would build the sports car of SUVs, the Alfa Romeo of SUVs. You're right. They did. But they also built something much more.
For a four-cylinder premium SUV, it's pretty potent. The Stelvio is quicker than every other four-cylinder SUV in its class, even the twin-charged XC60 T6 (and tied with the twin-charged and electrified T8). The GLC300, the X3 xDrive 28i, the Q5—they're all slower. In fact, the Stelvio is even quicker than some of the V-6 competition such as the XT5, the RDX, and the RX 350 F-Sport. Turbocharging your six won't save you, either, unless you're serious about it. The Stelvio is quicker than the Levante Q4 and the MKX EcoBoost.
The Stelvio is everything we've come to expect from an Italian car. It's shamelessly good-looking and drives with a passion normally reserved for expensive sports cars, but it's got quirks you're going to have to be willing to put up with. As always, they seem to be the price of the passion, even in 2017 when we probably should've moved past such things.
Below is the specification of 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Q4 (Ti Sport AWD):
And here below the pictures of 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Q4 (Ti Sport AWD):
source: www.motortrend.com
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