About Stelvio
The Stelvio takes its name from the Stelvio Pass, the Alpine road with dozens of hairpins that every driving enthusiast wants to try once. It was a bold name for an SUV, and Alfa Romeo mostly earned it. Launched in 2017 on the same Giorgio platform as the Giulia sedan, the Stelvio was built to prove that a family crossover could steer like a sports car, and it became the brand's best-selling model in many markets.
The recipe mirrors the Giulia: a turbocharged four-cylinder with all-wheel drive for most buyers, and the Quadrifoglio with its twin-turbo 2.9-liter V6, which set a Nurburgring lap record for production SUVs at launch. The steering is quick, the chassis playful, and road testers routinely called it the driver's choice in its class. The complaints were familiar Alfa ones: a cabin a step behind the Germans in polish, early reliability questions and resale values that worried lessors.
The Stelvio has competed against the BMW X3 and X3 M, Porsche Macan, Mercedes GLC, Audi Q5 and SQ5, Jaguar F-Pace and Genesis GV70. A next-generation model was planned as electric-only, then rethought to add hybrid power, and its launch has slipped; Alfa has kept the current Stelvio on sale with updated technology, styling tweaks and special editions such as the Veloce. Watch this space for the successor's reveal, pricing and powertrain lineup, which will tell a lot about Stellantis' commitment to Alfa Romeo. In the meantime the news covers model-year updates, recalls, comparison tests, and the long goodbye of a crossover that critics liked more than buyers did.