As a sub-brand of Fiat, Alfa Romeo is a sports brand positioned as a personalized sports brand, not only in the domestic market is very niche, in fact, in the entire world automotive market is also a niche brand. Under the general trend of SUVs, Alfa Romeo released its first SUV model, the Stelvio, in 2016, which has now been imported for domestic sales.
On February 8, Alfa Romeo's second SUV model, Tonale, was officially released, and the new car was positioned lower than the Stelvio, which was a compact SUV model.
The front face of the new car is still using the iconic inverted triangle mid-mesh design, but the headlight shape is a return to the design style of the classic 159 model, using a horizontal strip design, and the interior is three sets of circular light sources, and the entire front face looks domineering and sharp.
The side of the body still continues the Stelvio's simple large hatchback style, the rear ends with C-pillar, no D-pillar, and the upper part of the rear side window has a good sense of sport.
The shape of the entire side is also very rounded and capable, only a waist line that continues from the lower part of the window to the rear taillight position is very tough. The hub is the iconic five-ring petal shape of the Alfa Romeo brand and is beautiful.
The overall shape of the tail is very simple, mainly highlighting the design of the tail lamp, using a horizontal shape, the internal light source structure and the headlights echo, and the effect after lighting is also very sharp.
Alfa Romeo's models have always been less adept at creating a luxurious interior atmosphere, and this new Tonale center console is still very simple in design style, and it looks very familiar.
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It can be seen that the center console shape of Alpha Romeo Tonale is very close to the design layout of the center console of Wuling Capgemini and Baojun RS-3, including the floating central control screen and the layout of the air conditioning outlet and button area in the middle, which is not at all inferior to Wuling Baojun.
In the power section, the new Tonale mainly promotes the light hybrid and plug-in hybrid systems, where the light hybrid is composed of a 1.5T gasoline engine, matched with a 48-volt light mixing system, which can provide 130 hp and 160 hp power tuning, and is matched by a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission. The new car will also be available in 2.0T gasoline and 1.6T diesel engine versions.