I don't want to jinx it but I genuinely feel that this is a game changer for Alfa. The Giulia and the Stelvio did well in terms of where the brand offering was prior to them, and I think the Tonale moves that progress further many more notches. I think it'll get more people open to the brand so that future model rollouts will be even more successful. Alfa is competing with Audi, Merc, BMW but in doing that I think they have to use the strategy that the Koreans used to gradually build brands like Kia and Hyundai
Alfa put the nail in its own coffin when it made the Stelvio. This only buries it... Its just another pointless SUV sold to the idiots that buy them. It does nothing new or interesting for the industry, and commits the badge to competing in a saturated market where there are better brands doing these stupid things better. Alfa never made particularly good quality cars and their customer support has always been horrible. Their only real niche was the sporting heritage and making some of the best driving cars around. Can't leverage that reputation and heritage with a tall floppy heavy SUV - well, not with a straight face anyway. I expect that Stelantis will kill off the badge soon, they'll have to do some serious cutting and rationalisation of their portfolio in order to catch up electric cars - theyre badly behind and any car company that doesn't get on the EV bandwagon quick smart and with very convincing products will be bankrupt soon. Alfa Romeo pinning their hopes on this piss poor effort of an internal combustion SUV is a sad and desperate move.
I think in a mediocre boring segment this stands out from the crowd has passion, flair which sets it apart from it's rivals plus the exclusivity heritage pedigree of the badge definitely beats anything from Asia. I would like to see Lancia make a comeback also with a compact SUV being one of the greatest marques in automotive history!
I still drives my GT Blackline and i still love it. I had no idea what Alfa should next. May i'm getting older, so who knows? May i should give a try to a Tonale? (of course i want to keep my GT too)
The answer is No...it cannot beat the Q3. The chassis is modeled on the Jeep Renegade. Anyone who's driven one knows that's not a fun ride. So no, the Tonale will not outdo the Q3.
@@MarceloLopezJr wut? Not the same suspension, not the same weight distribution, so idk what are you talking about ... With your logic: "Audi TT is based on a Golf, so the TT is must be the same crap as the Seat Leon" - lol
Hi Angelo, the car we were shown here was a Speciale with a hybrid petrol engine. This was a production-accurate prototype, so there may be some minor tweaks to specs in different markets between now and the car's official launch :)
As SUVs go, it's a great looking car - the prettiest in it's class. It has 3 major problems: 1. It's very closely related to a Jeep Compass and they are awful. 2. Alfa's reputation for reliability is poor and it seems impossible to shake off. 3. The dealer network is awful and the dealers do not have a good reputation. There is 1 Alfa dealer between Land's End and Swindon. Unless they sort the dealer situation out, they have no chance. My fear is that sales will bomb, even if the car is fundementaly sound. For example, the Giulia is the best in it's class but the BMW 3 series outsells it 20 to 1.
Love it,the only problem is price and dealership back up this I feel what let's the brand down,they should be looking at the Tonale kickstarting Alfa,imo
🤞 It’s offered with a fixed or sliding panoramic sunroof (with a proper cover, they’re popular if not expected by Evoque buyers and if it wants to go head to head or poach them, well……. then…….. 😬 a sunroof please Alfa The Tonale is stunning 🤩 and my choice for sure but I’d hold out for the plug in hybrid PHEV On my Golf GTE I’ve done over 4,500 miles on electric only mode of the 8,000 miles it’s been driven so far. The PHEV functionality if used correctly is an epic winner
Why is the Q3 your reference? The Q3 is a choice for elderly who think they do a save choice. They are not in for an Italian car with flare. I think a Formentor e.g. is a better competitor for this Tonale.
The Formentor is another great car, but we chose the Q3 because like that Audi model, this Alfa Romeo is trying to be an all-rounder, rather than a sports-focused car. We'd love to put a Tonale Quadrifoglio up against the Cupra one day...
This is a very important product for ALFA. They are in very serious trouble as they aren't getting much traction in the USA, and the Germans have the northern european market sewn up. It is a very progressive, competent design, and if they can deliver reliability, it might be a big shot in the arm for Alfa. It's going to boil down to their manufacturing quality, as reliability is something that you can't fix easily when it is initially bad, and you are only new once, so if this ships, and there are many recalls and teething problems, it will be curtains for ALFA. The car market is about to get brutal, with the Chinese starting to enter the market with their electric vehicles, and so a mild hybrid like this has to be really solid.
Very good looking but in america alfa has a bad reputation 'bad tranni 'bad electronics 'engine fails at 20k ' not reliable 'but beautiful lol 'yanks are a bit rough from traffic light to traffic lights '
I was in love with my Giulia and Alfa Romeo as a brand, however, I will never again buy/recommend another Alfa Romeo in my life. I had the brake by wire system fail on me and it caused me to crash and total the car. They sent someone from Bosch to diagnose the vehicle and in the charts it clearly showed that something malfunctioned (brakes were slammed 2 seconds before the impact at 40 MPH and it took more than 1.5 seconds for the speed to start going down.) Stellantis told me that they were not going to take responsibility for it and that I needed to have my insurance pay for the vehicle. Absolute garbage. I will never recommend this car brand to anyone again! Buy an AUDI, BMW or Mercedes instead.
@Manu Fontaine lol dont be that stupid. This guy is under every Alfa video copy and pasting his useless comment. He thinks Continentals brake by wire system (used in many cars) is unreliable because one poor guy on this planet had a failure.
"The first digital instrument panel from Alfa Romeo"? Huh? So what is that lit up thing I am looking at in my Alfa Romeo 4c Spider? Sure looks digital to me. Why can't these RUclips and Google News Feed car 'experts' get their facts straight? Also the 'glued on Ipad afterthought" used here, like with BMW, Mazda and everyone else continue to be LAME AS HELL.. The Giulia hidden infotainment screen blended into the overall dash is way better. It looks like a CAR interior, not some computer geek's home work station.
@@cinch Why…? It’s an suv - it’s everything that’s wrong with the automotive industry… Crappy cars sold to ignorant consumers. SUVs do nothing well apart from identifying their owners as clueless fashion victims.
Lovely. Oooo….I can buy it from Cinch. Marvellous. Then it goes wrong and I need to go to Alfa’s UK dealer network. Fortunately, I (along with other savvy buyers) know this. Result? People will continue to buy Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Honda etc.. Is there a pattern emerging ? 🤔
Its £45,000 another overpriced EV …… No One can Afford EV Cars it’s ridiculous, I remember all Car manufacturers saying EVs will make Cars affordable and cheaper to Drive… And this is the reason i will not buy one …. Manufacturers are taking the piss out of Customers …
REKHA CHANDA ANUPAMA SERIAL About Last night's episode This episode is meaningless and Disgusting. VIEWERS DONOT WANT TO SEE ANUJ IN DISTRESS AND SAD SHAH family and neighbours enjoying this PATHETIC situations. SHOULD THIS BE THE STORYLINE? .Filmmaker should Concentrate more on MaNa'S WEDDING
REKHA CHANDA ANUPAMA SERIAL VANRAJ SHAH and LILA has no right to stop MaNA'S WEDDING. WHERE is DEVIKA, MALAVIKA and Uncle Gk? THIS SHOW IS RUNNING ONLY WITH SHAH Family. WHICH IS NOT FAIR FOR ANUJ. VIEWERS want to see ANUJ'S side's more members. VANRAJ AND LILA CHARACTER SHOULD BE OUT FROM THIS SERIAL. THEY ARE THE BIGGEST TROUBLE MAKERS of the SHOW
REKHA CHANDA ANUPAMA SERIAL Even in this sad and PATHETIC situation GOURAV KHANNA'S acting as ANUJ was MINDBLOWIING WHATEVER THE WORDS AND SENTENCES ANUJ SAID ABOUT SHAH FAMILY WERE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT
It looks a lovely car. Sadly as a previous owner of the marque I can only say that it is destined to end up being a very expensive static lump of iron on your driveway due to poor technical design and atrocious dealer support. Think again before you open your wallet up.
If it out performs an Audi who cares? We all know about the reliability issues Italian cars have. Remember Fiat?? Fix it again Tony. Nice looking, but I’d run from this one.
This is an unfounded stereotype held only in the UK by older people. In the 1970s union workers were destroying the British car industry building Morris Marinas et al and had a HUGE chip on their shoulder about Alfa Romeo who were highly successful in F1 but were just starting production for the consumer mass market. The jokes were to bring Alfa down and assuage damaged egos in the UK. In Europe there is no reputation for unreliability. Alfa sells more of its cars in Germany than anywhere else and gives a 5 years warranty as standard. Times have changed, trotting out old jokes makes you look... well, old
I had a 2002 Fiat Stilo Abarth for 10 years. Singularly the most unreliable car I’ve ever owned. Gearboxes, engine, hydraulics, suspension. They were all shite. Eventually I gave up with the thing and went Renault. Not one problem since.
I remember not that long ago the guilia and stelvio coming out to huge praise and great reviews from the press , and they didn't sell ,I really hope that's not the case with the tonale , Alfa deserve to sell a whole lot more cars than they do ,this tonale looks amazing 👌🫶
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so much more beautifull than mercedes or bmw
It has soul - that the competitors lack. I've always lacked the confidence to buy an Alfa but admire those who have.
I don't want to jinx it but I genuinely feel that this is a game changer for Alfa. The Giulia and the Stelvio did well in terms of where the brand offering was prior to them, and I think the Tonale moves that progress further many more notches. I think it'll get more people open to the brand so that future model rollouts will be even more successful. Alfa is competing with Audi, Merc, BMW but in doing that I think they have to use the strategy that the Koreans used to gradually build brands like Kia and Hyundai
Well said, Dino. Here's hoping there's a Quadrifoglio version to get even more people looking
Alfa put the nail in its own coffin when it made the Stelvio. This only buries it...
Its just another pointless SUV sold to the idiots that buy them. It does nothing new or interesting for the industry, and commits the badge to competing in a saturated market where there are better brands doing these stupid things better.
Alfa never made particularly good quality cars and their customer support has always been horrible. Their only real niche was the sporting heritage and making some of the best driving cars around. Can't leverage that reputation and heritage with a tall floppy heavy SUV - well, not with a straight face anyway.
I expect that Stelantis will kill off the badge soon, they'll have to do some serious cutting and rationalisation of their portfolio in order to catch up electric cars - theyre badly behind and any car company that doesn't get on the EV bandwagon quick smart and with very convincing products will be bankrupt soon.
Alfa Romeo pinning their hopes on this piss poor effort of an internal combustion SUV is a sad and desperate move.
@@froggy0162 you've never driven an alfa
@@robertogallis7758 I’ve owned three and still have one as a daily.
@@froggy0162 which one?
Absolutely gorgeous Car , great video and thank you
I think in a mediocre boring segment this stands out from the crowd has passion, flair which sets it apart from it's rivals plus the exclusivity heritage pedigree of the badge definitely beats anything from Asia. I would like to see Lancia make a comeback also with a compact SUV being one of the greatest marques in automotive history!
this the best-looking car of its class...!!!!
It's even better-looking in the metal :)
100% yes. Looking very likely to be our next car to follow on from our 14 year old Alfa GT Blackline! Look forward to your road test.
The GT is still such a pretty car! Happy that Alfa designers remain some of the best in the business :)
You’re going from a GT to an SUV…? Wow, prepared to be disappointed.
I still drives my GT Blackline and i still love it. I had no idea what Alfa should next. May i'm getting older, so who knows? May i should give a try to a Tonale?
(of course i want to keep my GT too)
The answer is No...it cannot beat the Q3.
The chassis is modeled on the Jeep Renegade. Anyone who's driven one knows that's not a fun ride.
So no, the Tonale will not outdo the Q3.
@@MarceloLopezJr wut? Not the same suspension, not the same weight distribution, so idk what are you talking about ... With your logic:
"Audi TT is based on a Golf, so the TT is must be the same crap as the Seat Leon" - lol
I want one. Love it👌🔥🍀🇮🇹
Gorgeous car, I hope it sells well
P.S. I like that ambient lighting on the dash
Honestly, if you took the grille off the front and put Dacia on it, I would be none the wiser. It looks plain Jane.
Ambient lights where removed for the UK models
Design wise its not even up for debate, Alfas are always the most beautiful in class imo
I completely agree with you. This beats the competition when it comes to design imo.
Nice video
hi, is the special version you tried with a diesel or hybrid engine? the special version will have a diesel engine? thanks
Hi Angelo, the car we were shown here was a Speciale with a hybrid petrol engine. This was a production-accurate prototype, so there may be some minor tweaks to specs in different markets between now and the car's official launch :)
Yes! best design in class
Price ?
Beautiful no words but Q3 is hard opponent
Does that color looks good in natural light or the usual alfa red is the better choice?
Toenail?
As SUVs go, it's a great looking car - the prettiest in it's class. It has 3 major problems:
1. It's very closely related to a Jeep Compass and they are awful.
2. Alfa's reputation for reliability is poor and it seems impossible to shake off.
3. The dealer network is awful and the dealers do not have a good reputation. There is 1 Alfa dealer between Land's End and Swindon. Unless they sort the dealer situation out, they have no chance.
My fear is that sales will bomb, even if the car is fundementaly sound. For example, the Giulia is the best in it's class but the BMW 3 series outsells it 20 to 1.
💚🤍🧡 Alfa Romeo Tonale 👍 Big like for you 👍
Love it,the only problem is price and dealership back up this I feel what let's the brand down,they should be looking at the Tonale kickstarting Alfa,imo
Aká je cena tohoto modelu v Taliansku ?
Starting from 35500€
Is this the best-looking car of its class, or are there more handsome SUVs out there? Let us know what you think in the comments!
Price?
@@C3c1l Unconfirmed as of yet, but we'd estimate something just over £30k as the starting price.
@@cinch thank you 👍
I think it looks like a CX30 with an Alfa front.
Yes it's stunning!!
🤞 It’s offered with a fixed or sliding panoramic sunroof (with a proper cover, they’re popular if not expected by Evoque buyers and if it wants to go head to head or poach them, well……. then…….. 😬 a sunroof please Alfa
The Tonale is stunning 🤩 and my choice for sure but I’d hold out for the plug in hybrid PHEV
On my Golf GTE I’ve done over 4,500 miles on electric only mode of the 8,000 miles it’s been driven so far.
The PHEV functionality if used correctly is an epic winner
When you see it, you can't forget it. Forever 😍
Nice salesmanship
Why is the Q3 your reference? The Q3 is a choice for elderly who think they do a save choice. They are not in for an Italian car with flare. I think a Formentor e.g. is a better competitor for this Tonale.
The Formentor is another great car, but we chose the Q3 because like that Audi model, this Alfa Romeo is trying to be an all-rounder, rather than a sports-focused car. We'd love to put a Tonale Quadrifoglio up against the Cupra one day...
For the elderly? Never seen an elderly person driving a Q3.
@@paulwilkinson3963 average 52,2 years.
The new Alfa Toe Nail. Shocking name
I hope people don't start calling it Toenail!
WHY ARE THE INTERIOR SHOTS NOT MUCH BETTER ILLUMINATED?. SURELY YOU COULD HAVE ARRANGED SOME LIGHTING?.
This is a very important product for ALFA. They are in very serious trouble as they aren't getting much traction in the USA, and the Germans have the northern european market sewn up. It is a very progressive, competent design, and if they can deliver reliability, it might be a big shot in the arm for Alfa. It's going to boil down to their manufacturing quality, as reliability is something that you can't fix easily when it is initially bad, and you are only new once, so if this ships, and there are many recalls and teething problems, it will be curtains for ALFA. The car market is about to get brutal, with the Chinese starting to enter the market with their electric vehicles, and so a mild hybrid like this has to be really solid.
Simply the best
Yes beats the competition lovely car…
Looks good while doing it, too.
/Jamil
It is a beautiful car but the engines are lackluster.
We're optimistic that Alfa Romeo's engineers have unlocked some extra character from the engines 🤞🏼
damn check engine is already on?? wow.......
it's almost standard on cars which do not have the engine running but the power on ;-)
I think that every car I ever drove had check engine light on with power on before actually starting the engine
It’s nice but I still think I would choose a Porsche Macan
'Amazon packages' - What a crap , Love the car
Stelvio and Tonale are leaders of own class , unfortunately [ + gulia : ) ]
It’s a Alfa. But no one has driven it. No reviews of how it drives. It’s in the Jeep platform. So … is it any good to drive?
jeep platform means it will be good off road??! not a bad thing, a unique selling point actually.
The engineer who made the Giulia GTA made some modifications for the Tonale, so expect that this car will drive better than a Jeep.
Where do Alfa Romeo fans meet? at the mechanic
Is wonderfull
Looks like every other small SUV.
In the north of England this car will end up being pronounced. ‘Toe Nail’ won’t sell well with that name
Evoque posh!!!!
Looks similar to a Nissan Qasqui
The looks reminds me of squidward
It has a frown like mine, on a monday, before my first coffee. You just see it think ’uuüuerggh’.
???coffe or alcohol?? Don’t drink you can be a perfect idiot
Can you just try to pronounce the last letter of the car’s name with the right sound…please 😔
Apologies Riccardo, we really should brush up on our Italian =S
Why though, he is not italian
Ferrari will launch a similar SUV version
They sure will, but the Alfa Romeo one should cost from little over £30,000...
DAMN BOY
Absolutely nothing to do with Alfa pedigree....This is a brick
Toe nail looks like Mazda 🤔🤔🤔
Very good looking but in america alfa has a bad reputation 'bad tranni 'bad electronics 'engine fails at 20k ' not reliable 'but beautiful lol 'yanks are a bit rough from traffic light to traffic lights '
Jeep Compass masked
I was in love with my Giulia and Alfa Romeo as a brand, however, I will never again buy/recommend another Alfa Romeo in my life. I had the brake by wire system fail on me and it caused me to crash and total the car. They sent someone from Bosch to diagnose the vehicle and in the charts it clearly showed that something malfunctioned (brakes were slammed 2 seconds before the impact at 40 MPH and it took more than 1.5 seconds for the speed to start going down.) Stellantis told me that they were not going to take responsibility for it and that I needed to have my insurance pay for the vehicle. Absolute garbage. I will never recommend this car brand to anyone again! Buy an AUDI, BMW or Mercedes instead.
@Manu Fontaine If they use brake by wire, yes. If they don't, then most likely no. Thank you for your comment though!
@Manu Fontaine lol dont be that stupid. This guy is under every Alfa video copy and pasting his useless comment. He thinks Continentals brake by wire system (used in many cars) is unreliable because one poor guy on this planet had a failure.
I think Audi wins this one
In my opinion Audi is boring and expensive.
Would not drive anything than alfa time people realised that Germans are definitely not the best alfa is for true drivers
Still glad I bought an XT4.
This is NOT an Alfa Romeo. (and i'm sad it isn't)
"The first digital instrument panel from Alfa Romeo"? Huh? So what is that lit up thing I am looking at in my Alfa Romeo 4c Spider? Sure looks digital to me. Why can't these RUclips and Google News Feed car 'experts' get their facts straight? Also the 'glued on Ipad afterthought" used here, like with BMW, Mazda and everyone else continue to be LAME AS HELL.. The Giulia hidden infotainment screen blended into the overall dash is way better. It looks like a CAR interior, not some computer geek's home work station.
Stupid automatic shifter😕
Wow
It’s a tarted up Jeep…
Just another pos SUV with an Alfa badge - RIP Alfa’s sporting heritage :(
Ah, we're slightly more optimistic than that!
@@cinch Why…? It’s an suv - it’s everything that’s wrong with the automotive industry… Crappy cars sold to ignorant consumers. SUVs do nothing well apart from identifying their owners as clueless fashion victims.
the plaform ist completely modified for Tonale.
@@DonViToCRLNE So what? It's still an SUV, therefore it's still a POS...
@@froggy0162 what i wanted to say is that it will drive better than a Jeep. But i have the same opinion that SUVs dont make much sense.
Strange thing to call a car, sounds like toe nail
💔 p̴r̴o̴m̴o̴s̴m̴
Lovely. Oooo….I can buy it from Cinch. Marvellous. Then it goes wrong and I need to go to Alfa’s UK dealer network. Fortunately, I (along with other savvy buyers) know this. Result? People will continue to buy Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Honda etc.. Is there a pattern emerging ? 🤔
Its £45,000 another overpriced EV …… No One can Afford EV Cars it’s ridiculous, I remember all Car manufacturers saying EVs will make Cars affordable and cheaper to Drive… And this is the reason i will not buy one …. Manufacturers are taking the piss out of Customers …
Reworked Compass...15% Alfa - 85% Jeep.
I’m going to pronounce it toe nail
My dad owned a 2021 stelvio for 7 months. Absolutely awful car. Hopefully Alfa have improved with this car.
REKHA CHANDA ANUPAMA SERIAL About Last night's episode This episode is meaningless and Disgusting. VIEWERS DONOT WANT TO SEE ANUJ IN DISTRESS AND SAD SHAH family and neighbours enjoying this PATHETIC situations. SHOULD THIS BE THE STORYLINE? .Filmmaker should Concentrate more on MaNa'S WEDDING
REKHA CHANDA ANUPAMA SERIAL VANRAJ SHAH and LILA has no right to stop MaNA'S WEDDING. WHERE is DEVIKA, MALAVIKA and Uncle Gk? THIS SHOW IS RUNNING ONLY WITH SHAH Family. WHICH IS NOT FAIR FOR ANUJ. VIEWERS want to see ANUJ'S side's more members. VANRAJ AND LILA CHARACTER SHOULD BE OUT FROM THIS SERIAL. THEY ARE THE BIGGEST TROUBLE MAKERS of the SHOW
REKHA CHANDA ANUPAMA SERIAL Even in this sad and PATHETIC situation GOURAV KHANNA'S acting as ANUJ was MINDBLOWIING
WHATEVER THE WORDS AND SENTENCES ANUJ SAID ABOUT SHAH FAMILY WERE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT
Bad
It looks a lovely car. Sadly as a previous owner of the marque I can only say that it is destined to end up being a very expensive static lump of iron on your driveway due to poor technical design and atrocious dealer support. Think again before you open your wallet up.
Well as I am on my 7th Alfa now, I have to disagree.
The design already looks out dated.
Looks nice but wouldn’t want to drive something that’s called a toenail
No thanks.
🤮🤢😱🤢🤮
Jeep chassis, Jeep motor another flop
completely modified, wait for real tests.
If it out performs an Audi who cares? We all know about the reliability issues Italian cars have. Remember Fiat?? Fix it again Tony. Nice looking, but I’d run from this one.
It’s an old american stereotype, of 30years go. The group made huge progress, rent one once , give yourself opportunity to change idea
This is an unfounded stereotype held only in the UK by older people. In the 1970s union workers were destroying the British car industry building Morris Marinas et al and had a HUGE chip on their shoulder about Alfa Romeo who were highly successful in F1 but were just starting production for the consumer mass market. The jokes were to bring Alfa down and assuage damaged egos in the UK. In Europe there is no reputation for unreliability. Alfa sells more of its cars in Germany than anywhere else and gives a 5 years warranty as standard. Times have changed, trotting out old jokes makes you look... well, old
I had a 2002 Fiat Stilo Abarth for 10 years. Singularly the most unreliable car I’ve ever owned. Gearboxes, engine, hydraulics, suspension. They were all shite. Eventually I gave up with the thing and went Renault. Not one problem since.
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I remember not that long ago the guilia and stelvio coming out to huge praise and great reviews from the press , and they didn't sell ,I really hope that's not the case with the tonale , Alfa deserve to sell a whole lot more cars than they do ,this tonale looks amazing 👌🫶