#NYIAS: All-New Italian Stallions — Do The Standard Alfa Romeo Stelvios IMPRESS or DEPRESS You?

As much as I want to love the Guilia, sitting inside and seeing how cheap the interior is was enough to keep me away. Same goes for this.

I have to agree completely. The interior fit and finish might be excusable on a $25K Dodge, but not something in the range of double the cost.

The Giulias are having a lot of teething problems.

Well of course with Alfa the jury is still out and is going to be out for a year or too. Alfa has to be able to prove it is reliable. I certainly want them to succeed. They are a welcome change to the German monotony over the near luxury and luxury car market. Their engines sound and perform well. The ride and handling are very well judged. As Consumer Reports say it is a leap of faith. However it is a leap I might want to take to drive something a bit different and a bit special.

No, the verdict is in. Alfas continue to not be reliable. Just ask the editors of Motor Trend whose TWO Giulia (non-Quadrifoglio) testers both broke down and ceased to operate.

Well of course with Alfa the jury is still out and is going to be out for a year or too. Alfa has to be able to prove it is reliable. I certainly want them to succeed. They are a welcome change to the German monotony over the near luxury and luxury car market. Their engines sound and perform well. The ride and handling are very well judged. As Consumer Reports say it is a leap of faith. However it is a leap I might want to take to drive something a bit different and a bit special.

I'm not an Alfa fan. Styling, is a big "no" from me, from every angle except the profile. Quality issue are also a reason to stay away, as are a virtually non-existent North American support network.

Yikes. New models from a brand that has a long-time reputation for serous quality issues.

And the parent company (Fiat Chrysler) isn't exactly winning awards for product quality.

Sounds like the recipe for disaster.

Well, the Maserati Levante seems to be selling well. I've seen almost 10 of them just in the past few weeks (not sure if any were repeat sightings of the same car). I like the styling of this Stelvio, but the seating position looks pretty low for an SUV. And the reliability is way too unreliable.

The Levante is NOT selling well. It's on track to sell about 6500 units for a 12-month period, double that would have made it similar in volume to the Cayenne and the Cayenne isn't a particularly big seller to begin with.

FCA has basically $h!t on the Chrysler brand lineup for this?! C'mon now...!

Very disappointing. Ok - both Giulia & Stelvio are cool & powerful & capable...in Quadrifoglio trim but I'm not impressed otherwise. The interior is flashy but the base trim should be outstanding as well. And I've seen the Levante - not all that impressive either. Maybe its the overall exterior form or proportions that just don't seem to work for the US.

Time & funding could have been better spent developing small-med-large SUV/CUVs for Chrysler. And putting more effort into a large Jeep SUV & a good midsize SUV for Dodge. Just plain BS - Fiat arrogance. I'm a bit angry - such mismanagement.

The Alfa lineup (lots of unlocked vehicles at NYIAS) has the interior simplicity and quality of a 5 year old Hyundai or Mazda. FCA just has problems across the board.

Everyone on here seems to have a crystal ball and it all figured out. They are re-entering the market. Give it time. They offer a choice. Not more of the same. I am seeing more of their vehicles in my travels. Rome was not built in a day. Nor can you establish a brand or a model in a single year.
Target Jaguar volumes first before you try to equal Porsche.

You do realize that Jaguar is under 35K units per year, right? You do realize that Jaguar is not viable at that level (were it not for Land Rover paying the bills), right? So you're saying that Alfa Romeo which is a lower-level brand by far than Jaguar should go for the same level of market failure?

You have to start somewhere. Nobody said they have to stay there forever. Inch by inch, year by year. Build up the model line, bring more attention to the brand and the more foot traffic to the dealers... Slowly but surely they will grow. Play the Long Game...

And let's review that start.

The Giulia has officially been on sale 4.5 months. Nationwide sales for March were 484 units and this was a "good" month for it. The dead-in-the-water Jaguar XE sold 3X that amount. Has there been any effort on Alfa's part to prime the pump and get people into the Giulia? Nope!

Consumer Reports and Motor Trend are having a trough time keeping their test cars running long enough to do a long-term test. Dealers are dealing with fixing problems caused by assembly shoddiness and angry customers who are having reliability problems.

The Giulia is beginning to look like what it probably is. When it was introduced, we had seen the first mule pictures of the supposedly new Giorgio platform a week or two before the final car was shown to the public. Then the mules disappeared.

It's beginning to look like Sergio foisted the car onto the public before the engineering had been completed. Remember the crash safety failure incident? The 18 month lag from introduction to being on sale in the USA was caused by one setback after another, but likely indicative of an "oh shit" level of a series of problems being rectified.

My bottom line is that I don't want a prototype at Mercedes prices with a Dart interior.