ALFA ROMEO GIULIA QF

We look back on our time with hot Alfa, another fabulous but flawed car from the brand

- Steve Sutcliffe

IN total, I did 5,285 miles and spent 192 days with the Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio, during which time I realised many new things about it. But my main thought now it’s gone is that it was a great car, yes, but one that could, and should, be better still considering how much money it costs.

Where it’s good, it’s great. But where it’s not so good, it’s unusually poor - and sometimes peculiarly irritating. Some will say it was ever thus with Alfa Romeos, but in 2025 there’s a lot less room for mistakes, and at nigh-on 80 grand, Alfa’s BMW M3 rival needs to be nothing less than brilliant to justify its price.

Either way, in order to truly get along with the Quadrifoglio— and despite Alfa having improved it in all sorts of welcome ways for this final version — you still need to see this car through rose-tinted spectacles if you're not going to be driven mad by it. Otherwise its faults will dominate and the good stuff will fade into the background, which would be very wrong indeed.