The time has come for a restyling for the Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio. The first encounter with the cars is in a legendary place for the brand: the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese. The front end features a new treatment of the front grilles, where the logo is positioned, and the lower ones destined for the two main air intakes, creating a contemporary reinterpretation of the famous and distinctive ‘Trilobo’.
“We had made some hypotheses to modify the bumper as well, but Giulia and Stelvio have such a balanced design that the objective was to take just a few aspects to a higher level, such as the new headlights and the quality of the secondary plastics such as the grilles,” says Alessandro Maccolini, who has been with Alfa Romeo for 25 years and now holds the role of Design Project Responsible to deal with the entire design part of both the exterior and the interior.
“The effort has been made to maximise the perceived quality of the model and to fill gaps. For the interior, the key word is quality. There is a new matt blue colour that, like all matt finishes, enhances the car’s volume. The glossy colour is very lively, it is affected by reflections, while the matt highlights all the light passages,” continues Maccolini. A major innovation in the interior is the digital cluster for the instrumentation, which echoes what we saw on the Tonale.
“The digital display takes the next step in the sense of greater breadth of information that is shown to the driver. There are three modes, but we always leave room for the heritage we introduced with the Tonale,” explains Maccolini. Characterised by the historic telescope design, the new screen is 12.3 inches and from here you can access information about the car and parameters related to the assisted driving technologies.
