Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio interior

It’s as good as neither, it should be noted, but in giving it a twisting, moving and pressure-sensitive knob between two supplemental buttons, it’s controlled in similar fashion. And, you could argue, most of the functionality is there: it has sat-nav, it has a stereo and it links to your phone.

But the truth of it is that the Alfa system is an infotainment-lite set-up compared to the likes of those in an Audi, Mercedes or BMW. There are fewer features and lower-quality graphics. Somehow, though, not too much of this matters.

Materials are mostly fine. There’s carbonfibre in here that looks and feels like the real deal, with quality leather and stitching, but there are some retrograde plastics masquerading as metals, too, which gives the air of an interior from half a decade ago if you’re comparing it to the latest German solidity.

A clichéd finding, perhaps, but still true.

Rear accommodation is fine. Those Sparcos take up a little leg room and present a hard surface for your kids to bang their knees against, but let’s face it, this is a Giulia Quadrifoglio, so you can live with that.

Likewise, although we’d rather not have to, the fact that the rear seats can’t be folded on this version and that the boot’s opening is small and its cavity constricted.

On the Quadrifoglio, all these things are forgiveable; on lesser Giulias they wouldn’t be.