Alfa Romeo will reopen UK order books for the Giulia Quadrifoglio and Stelvio Quadrifoglio in March, after the company extended the V6 duo's lifecycle through to 2027.
The saloon and SUV were due to bow out last year to make way for all-new replacement models with electric power but have been given a stay of execution in light of weaker-than-expected EV demand.
The next-generation Giulia and Stelvio (the latter of which was due to launch in mid-2025 and had been seen in near-production-ready form) have been pulled back into development so that hybrid powertrains can be integrated.
To fill the gap, the current-generation cars have been made compliant with all current emissions and safety regulations and will remain on sale with a 278bhp four-cylinder petrol engine and a 2.9-litre V6. Neither is available with diesel power any more.
The V6 Quadrifoglio performance versions were taken out of production in September 2025 but will start running down the line again in Cassino, Italy, from April 2026.
Alfa Romeo CEO Santo Ficili said: "We're reopening orders for the Giulia and Stelvio Quadrifoglio to keep to a promise made to customers of ours who pay the most attention to the extreme performance and pure emotions inherent in Alfa Romeo's DNA.
"This is the best way to celebrate one of the most famous symbols in the automotive world, which brings with it a century-old quest for technical excellence applied to competitions and production cars.
"The Quadrifoglio is the most authentic expression of Alfa Romeo sportiness and of our cars, designed for real fans of driving, with the focus always on the driver."
Prices for the 2026 Giulia and Stelvio line-up have yet to be detailed, but they currently start at £43,750 and £52,000 respectively, with the Quadrifolio variants costing around twice as much.
Based on the then-new Giorgio platform, the saloon and SUV siblings were introduced in 2015 and have been only lightly updated since then. This makes them among the market’s oldest cars, raising questions about their ongoing viability.
Alfa Romeo has also shifted focus to the more volume-friendly Tonale and Junior crossovers in the last three years, with the need for an increasingly electrified offering dictating its product strategy – but UK boss Jules Tilstone told Autocar recently that the pure-petrol Giulia and Stelvio can continue because there is still sufficient demand and legislative flexibility.
“Eighty per cent of the [UK] market is still ICE,” he said. “People are looking for fun-to-drive performance ICE cars, and the Giulia and Stelvio offer that in spades.
“Look at the Giulia: you can't get away from the fact that it's a timeless D-segment saloon - and it is still stunning.”
It's unconfirmed whether either engine needed extensive modifications to comply with incoming Euro 7 emissions rules, but Tilstone said “the powertrains will be effectively the same”.
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Finally some good news.
The irony is that the Giulia and the platform it sits on was engineered for PHEV and mHEV powertrains but Alfa/Stellantis never did this. As a result on BIK and emissions it lagged behind competitors for the company car sector. One of the best engineered cars ever, let down by poor product management (or lack of funding).
A 1000 hp, bit like taking a Cricket bat to a pilllow fight, I always liked Alfas admired the curvy lines the sporty exhaust sounds the Italian driving position (suited me by the way) but nowadays the top sports cars have silly huge amounts of power and torque which most of the time isn't particularly needed, the 270hp 4 cyclinder is enough I think.