Alfa-Romeo will launch a second SUV in 2018 and a third in 2019
- The Alfa-Romeo brand (a subsidiary of the Fiat-Chrysler Group), which now has only one SUV in its range (the D-segment Stelvio), has announced that it will launch two new SUVs, one C segment (based on the Jeep Compass platform) in 2018 and the other E-segment (based on the Maserati Ghibli platform) in 2019. The Alfa-Romeo C-segment SUV will therefore be a variant of the Jeep Compass, while that in E segment will be a variant of the Maserati Levante.
- All manufacturers are aggressively developing SUVs in several segments, with this type of vehicle accounting for almost one in three European sales. Jaguar, Maserati, Bentley, and Alfa-Romeo were the last to enter this market.
- Alfa-Roméo started very late in this market, since the Stelvio began its career less than a year ago. 11,582 units were sold in the first nine months of 2017 (of which 10,501 in Europe, 633 in the United States and 285 in China). The Alfa-Romeo Stelvio is 4.68m long, 1.86m wide and 1.65m high. It is therefore likely that the future segment C SUV will measure about 4.50m and the segment E about 4.90m.
- These two new models will probably be produced on Italian soil, which should allow local production to increase volume significantly. Indeed, according to Inovev, the three SUVs of Alfa-Romeo should sell a total of 100,000 annual units, out of a total of one million vehicles made in Italy.
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