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[Icy Gull]

The release of the Alfa Romeo Tonale hybrid

08 Feb at 0900



This is a genuinely big deal…to me anyway, it’s only been three years in the making

https://youtu.be/tJq6aqJFSZQ

 

[Bry Nylon]

3 years in making yet the best name they could think of is the Alfa Romeo Toenail ?!

FFS

 

[Icy Gull]

3 years in making yet the best name they could think of is the Alfa Romeo Toenail ?!

FFS

Tonale Pass is in a mountain range, like the Stelvio

I could go all Crodo on this

 

[Bry Nylon]

Tonale Pass is in a mountain range

They should have called it the Finganale and said it’s the tip of the Andes.

 

[Icy Gull]

They should have called it the Finganale and said it’s the tip of the Andes.

Chapeau

 

[wellquickwoody]

It’s an Alfa, it will be gorgeous.

It is also utterly irrelevant as it is reliant on Italian electrics.

It will also breakdown as it is an Alfa.

 

[Icy Gull]

It’s an Alfa, it will be gorgeous.

It is also utterly irrelevant as it is reliant on Italian electrics.

It will also breakdown as it is an Alfa.

The seventies would like you back. German electrics these days


https://www.carwow.co.uk/blog/most-and-least-reliable-car-brands-revealed#gref

 

[wellquickwoody]

The seventies would like you back


https://www.carwow.co.uk/blog/most-and-least-reliable-car-brands-revealed#gref

If you had said 80’s I would have said yes please.

I had a 156 in the 90’s, brave discs being replaced at 30k miles, repeatedly.

Have owned 3 Italian motorcycles. One of the Ducati’s was known for blowing its reg/recs far too early. The original was Italian, the replacement Japanese. The alarm system/immobiliser on one of the others cut in whilst the vehicle was in use on more than one occasion. Apparently this could not happen

Audi may have made a difference, but an Italian electric car? I would not be an early adopter.

 

[Icy Gull]

If you had said 80’s I would have said yes please.

I had a 156 in the 90’s, brave discs being replaced at 30k miles, repeatedly.

Have owned 3 Italian motorcycles. One of the Ducati’s was known for blowing its reg/recs far too early. The original was Italian, the replacement Japanese. The alarm system/immobiliser on one of the others cut in whilst the vehicle was in use on more than one occasion. Apparently this could not happen

Audi may have made a difference, but an Italian electric car? I would not be an early adopter.

Maybe a Tesla is for you?

https://www.businessinsider.com/tes...nsumer-reports-satisfaction-2021-11?r=US&IR=T

 

[Icy Gull]

Looking good if not that different looking to a number of small SUVs


Beautiful from the front and the interior looks like a nice place to be

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...-romeo-tonale-kick-starts-brands-bold-new-era

 

[WATFORD zero]

Looking good if not that different looking to a number of small SUVs


Beautiful from the front and the interior looks like a nice place to be

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...-romeo-tonale-kick-starts-brands-bold-new-era

Oxymoron

 

[Icy Gull]

Oxymoron

Booooo

 

[LamieRobertson]

How many lawn mowers can you get in it?

 

[Icy Gull]

How many lawn mowers can you get in it?

You need educating on Alfas obviously!

Style over function …ALWAYS

So none

 

[zefarelly]

As a 2 Alfa household we have been massively disappointed by this development.

A proper hybrid estate car would mean the perfect all rounder and we'd only need 1 car, this monstrosity just devalues the brand. It looks like all the other crap out there.

as it is the Giulia is soon to be moving on, I have found another Subaru wagon for a race tender, now cycling to work . . . and Mrs Zef Alfa may/may-not get replaced as it's done 90k miles now.

all new cars are just generic shiny plastic turds now.

 

[zefarelly]

You need educating on Alfas obviously!

Style over function …ALWAYS

So none

hmm . . .Style and function

just don't mention practicality!

 

[LamieRobertson]

You need educating on Alfas obviously!

Style over function …ALWAYS

So none

Hmm..could stick a trailer on the back I guess

 

[Icy Gull]

Hmm..could stick a trailer on the back I guess

and be the coolest gardener in Sussex

 

[Icy Gull]

As a 2 Alfa household we have been massively disappointed by this development.

A proper hybrid estate car would mean the perfect all rounder and we'd only need 1 car, this monstrosity just devalues the brand. It looks like all the other crap out there.

as it is the Giulia is soon to be moving on, I have found another Subaru wagon for a race tender, now cycling to work . . . and Mrs Zef Alfa may/may-not get replaced as it's done 90k miles now.

all new cars are just generic shiny plastic turds now.

Sadly car makers have moved away from estates and into SUVs, it’s not just Alfa. They must know something we don’t, as I would always go for an estate over an SUV

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Have they finally got round to putting the front number plate in the proper place (like the front)?