Alfa Romeo has made it clear it will absolutely electrical fashions over the following few years, and that appears to be beginning with the newly revealed Milano. It is a subcompact SUV, and whereas evidently will probably be provided with an inner combustion engine (much like its platform-mate, the Jeep Avenger), Alfa has solely talked concerning the EV powertrains to start out with. And not less than considered one of them sounds fairly entertaining.
Styling-wise, there isn’t any mistaking the Milano for something however an Alfa. It’s totally curvy, and has the distinguished inverted triangle grille that is the model’s signature. It adopts some boomerang-shaped headlights that mix into further air inlets on both facet of the grille. That inverted triangle grille can characteristic totally different patterns, such because the mesh with traditional “Alfa Romeo” script proven on the blue instance, or the zoomed-in Alfa defend sample proven on the crimson one. The tail encompasses a large rear that makes an attempt to ape the “kamm tail” of the Alfa Romeo TZ sports activities automotive. We’re undecided how profitable it’s at that, but it surely nonetheless appears to be like stable.
The Milano is pretty small. It is available in at simply over 164 inches lengthy and 70 inches large, or across the measurement of a Kia Soul. It is also about 2 inches shorter in size than a Jeep Renegade, however that additionally makes it about 4 inches longer than the diminutive Jeep Avenger.
The inside is fairly typical Alfa, too. The ten.25-inch instrument display is housed in a double-barrel shroud, and the ten.25-inch infotainment display is mounted a little bit decrease and canted towards the motive force within the heart stack. Spherical air vents bookend the dashboard.
Powertrain particulars aren’t full, however the fundamentals are there. The usual variations will get a 156-horsepower single motor on the entrance, whereas the Veloce will get a 240-horsepower single entrance motor. Each get a 54-kWh battery pack. On the WLTP cycle, the 156-horsepower model will get 250 miles of vary. That will undoubtedly be decrease on the EPA cycle if the automotive had been to be provided right here. And whereas there isn’t any quantity for the Veloce, you too can depend on that being decrease than the usual mannequin.
The Veloce would not simply get extra energy, although. It sits an inch decrease on 20-inch wheels, and it will get stiffer entrance and rear anti-roll bars. The entrance brakes are upgraded to four-piston calipers with bigger 15-inch rotors. Capping every thing off is a Torsen limited-slip differential. It appears like an terrible lot of enjoyable (and in addition sounds a bit just like the setup for the Fiat 600e Abarth).
The Milano shall be out there to order in Europe this summer season. However sadly, we cannot get it in America. We reached out to Alfa’s U.S. arm and so they mentioned that there are not any plans for it to come back right here.
