Alfa Romeo is celebrating its Quadrifoglio emblem’s a hundredth birthday by rolling out limited-edition variants of the Giulia and the Stelvio. The commemorative vehicles obtain a extra highly effective twin-turbocharged V6, edition-specific visible accents, and carbon fiber inside trim.
The inexperienced Quadrifoglio (which suggests “four-leaf clover” in Italian) first appeared on a straight-six-powered RL race automobile on the 1923 version of the Targa Florio, a grueling highway race that was held in Sicily. Legend has it that pilot Ugo Sivocci had the symbol painted on his automobile for good luck. He gained, and the Quadrifoglio rapidly started showing on Alfa Romeo’s race vehicles earlier than displaying up on street-legal manufacturing fashions.
Quick-forward to 2023, and the four-leaf clover denotes Alfa Romeo’s strongest fashions: the Giulia Quadrifoglio is the Italian firm’s reply to the BMW M3, and the Stelvio Quadrifoglio competes in the identical phase because the X3 M. The limited-edition a hundredth Anniversario fashions construct on these foundations with a 520-horsepower evolution of the twin-turbocharged, 2.9-liter V6 (that is 15 greater than within the regular-production variants). Alfa Romeo additionally added a mechanical limited-slip differential derived from the sold-out, 540-horsepower Giulia GTA.
Primarily based on the recently-updated Giulia and Stelvio, the a hundredth Anniversario fashions include LED headlights,19-inch wheels for the Giulia (the Stelvio rides on 21-inch alloys), and edition-specific gold-colored brake calipers. Quadrifoglio emblems with gold-colored accents and “1923-2023” lettering are fitted to the fenders, and the record of kit additionally features a carbon fiber grille and carbon fiber door mirror caps.
The inside will get an identical remedy: There’s carbon fiber trim, gold-colored stitching, and a “100” emblem on the dashboard. Like their regular-production counterparts, each vehicles get a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster whose format modifications relying on the driving mode chosen.
Alfa Romeo will construct 100 models of the Giulia Quadrifoglio a hundredth Anniversario and 100 further examples of the Stelvio Quadrifoglio a hundredth Anniversario. Pricing and availability have not been introduced but, and deliveries are scheduled to begin within the coming weeks for patrons in European markets. Alfa Romeo confirmed to Autoblog that each fashions can be offered in the USA. Patrons can have three colours referred to as Rosso Etna, Montreal Inexperienced, and Vulcano Black to select from. Extra particulars can be introduced within the not-too-distant future.