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Pros: performance, handling, noise, ride, refinement, looks, interior quality
Cons: expensive, sub-par infotainment, thirsty
Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Design
For this round of updates to the Giulia Quadrifoglio, it has been fitted with what are called ‘3+3’ Matrix LED headlights, with their distinctive triple signature. This ties the car into not only the rest of the Giulia range, which has already received these headlamps, but also Alfa Romeo’s other current products, the Tonale and Stelvio SUVs. Other than that, the car is unchanged, but the Quadrifoglio – the sportiest model in the line-up – has always looked superb, with its balanced shape, 19-inch ‘Teledial’ alloy wheels, quad exhausts and enhanced body kit including front splitter and a lip spoiler on the boot.
Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Interior
Alfa previously made some much-needed remedial changes to the Giulia’s cabin in 2020, improving the interior quality markedly. To that end, it hasn’t needed such drastic alterations this time around, so for the flagship Quadrifoglio the main talking points are the addition of real, exposed carbon-fibre interior trim and a new 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster with smarter graphics. The old 8.8-inch infotainment touchscreen continues and is possibly now the only real weak point in the cabin, even if it’s acceptable to look at and use in isolation, but with good enough space for four tall passengers and a decent-sized 480-litre boot out back, the Giulia Quadrifoglio is a practical performance car with a largely top-quality cabin ambience.
Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Performance & Drive
The latest Giulia Quadrifoglio gains an additional ten horsepower to take its overall peak up to 520hp, although torque from its 2.9-litre twin-turbo V6 petrol engine remains the same at 600Nm. Driving the rear wheels only through an eight-speed automatic gearbox controlled by some of the most fantastic paddle shifts you could ever wish to use, the performance is ferocious: 0-100km/h takes just 3.9 seconds and, while top speeds are irrelevant, the Alfa’s number is beyond 300km/h – this, from a four-door ‘family saloon’, remember.
Better than the pure speed of the Giulia Quadrifoglio, though, is the way it handles. Alfa Romeo has fitted a mechanical limited-slip differential on the rear axle of the 2024 car, which improves the way it takes corners, while the two-stage adjustable suspension has been tuned to cope with this upgrade. With fluid, rewarding steering, epic body control, an innate sense of 50:50 balance brought about by its perfect weight distribution, and strong brakes, the Giulia Quadrifoglio is one of the most enjoyable, the most thrilling new cars you can drive.
Thankfully, all this driver interactivity doesn’t come at the expense of day-to-day comfort. The ride quality is remarkably accommodating with the dampers in their softer setting, so much so that using the Giulia Quadrifoglio as a daily commuter would not be totally out of the question – save for its official fuel consumption figure of 10.1 litres/100km, which you’ll struggle to attain if you decide to exploit its power, even on only a semi-regular basis. Nevertheless, with impressive suppression of road roar and wind noise, the Giulia Quadrifoglio feels like a high-class and refined machine to travel in at more usual everyday road speeds.
Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Pricing
The price for the Giulia Quadrifoglio 2024 model year hasn’t been communicated yet, but it will likely be well beyond €100,000, due to the car’s CO2 output of 229g/km meaning it will be clobbered for VRT. The regular Giulia range starts at €62,495, for models with about half the power and performance of the Quadrifoglio, which should give you a steer on the 520hp model – which’ll also cost the maximum €2,400 every year in motor tax.
As mitigation for this, the standard equipment list of the Giulia Quadrifoglio is fulsome to the nth degree, with very few cost options likely to be offered that would push its price up further. Highlights include leather upholstery, heating elements for the electrically operated front seats and the steering wheel also, an uprated Harman/Kardon sound system, radar cruise control and a generous array of advanced driver safety assist systems, among more.
Carzone Verdict
The Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio arrived in 2017 and wowed the world with its chassis ability, but it didn’t have the best interior. A series of upgrades in 2020 dealt with the issues in the cabin, yet they didn’t really change the way the car drove. But this new 2024 model year version has done the impossible: it has made what was already the best four-door supersaloon in the world even better and even more thoroughly rewarding to drive. It’s not cheap and it won’t be around forever, but the Giulia Quadrifoglio can now assuredly go down as an all-time great in the entire history of the automotive industry. It really is that good.