It appears as though the Alfa Romeo Giulia QV has accomplished its mission of beating the BMW M4/M3 duo on the fabled Nurburgring circuit. According to Italian automotive portal, BlogDiMotori, the range-topping four-door from Alfa Romeo has managed to lap the 20.8 km-long track in seven minutes and 43 seconds.
Revealed in June 2015, the Giulia QV is motivated by a 3.0 litre turbocharged aluminium six-cylinder engine with 510 PS. Said power gets transmitted to the rear wheels via a six-speed manual – allowing for a 0-100 km/h time of just 3.9 seconds. Of course, standard versions of the Giulia are slated to be introduced in the near future – spyshots of the vanilla variants are already in circulation.
The BMW M4, on the other hand, has only managed to clock a 7:52 lap time around the Green Hell – do note that the M3/M4 duo only possess a mere 431 hp from a 3.0 litre straight-six turbocharged engine. Still, the fact that the latter has the added advantage of a quicker-shifting double-clutch gearbox could mean that the Italian carmaker has finally found its long lost mojo.
However, a single morsel of information gathered from said report could indicate that this specific Giulia deployed isn’t exactly stock – sources claim that this unit was pumping out at least 540 PS instead of the factory-claimed 510 PS. Whether or not said info is legit is another story – we’ll continue rooting for the underdog in the meantime.
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Sweet! Conventional manual transmission still has what it takes (for Giulia QV’s case, thanks for the extra horsepower to kick M3/M4’s arse).
Claim whatever you like, I take the M4, you can take this junk.
Shame on you for thumb up yourself
How funny can you be wonker?
Pengampu john
Why don’t you thumbs yourself up to 100..
Never buy Italian except for shoes and pizzas. Buy Toyota better, good RV.
As I always said, you will never go wrong with sushi cars.
Sure, I guess if you like watching paint dry….
Shut up
Wow..nice..when can got in Malaysia ??
Anyone notice the rear disk brake has 2 caliper?
Seperate caliper arrangement. 1 for braking and 1 for parking brake…
A lot of cars use this setup…
The German car evangelists that usually comment here are not gonna like it..they seem very defensive of the big 3..be it an attack from the Brits through Jaguar or the japs Through Infiniti and and Lexus….
so what’s the comeback here then guys. A Fiat underneath.?. Electrics bound to fail??? No distributor support?
German fans vote with their wallets. Italian fans are welcome to do so for their favorites. Heck, where are they though …?
all had their wallets sucked dry by their ex-italian cars…
Buy this, the king of kwai tai cars and you will need to buy a tow truck also. 80% of the time it will be in the workshop.
Better get he Toyota 86, unbeatable reliability, RV and peace of mind.
Err FYI, Jaguar is Indian owned (British by name only, components mostly German and Japanese inside). But you are right, I would buy this car over the boring Japs like Lexus/Infiniti’s or the very common and severly ugly Mercs (note: new C Class) and generic looking BMWs.
Also please dont talk about Bentley’s or Rollls Royce or even Aston Martin’s as they are effectively German inside.
Bavarian Motor Works Ill take Alfa any day.
And that should be Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili to you matey.
Nothing wrong with the M3. The Giulia is gorgeous and is gonna outperform the M3/4 obviously, with around 100hp more. Cars aren’t about 7 seconds quicker on Nurburgring, nor about horsepower. The sound from a straight-six isn’t the same as the Ferrari-derived Giulia engine; we still don’t know which sounds better. My bet is on the M3.
I love both these cars; and give me a 6 series Gran Coupe and I’ll be happy too.But, I would go for the Giulia if it was only between the M3/4 and this. No point in explaining why, but no its not about HP and lap times.
Wow.. This car is damn sexy, at least from the photos. But, reliability will be a concern. Hopefully, Alfa manage to come up with a reliable product that have been plaguing them the last 2-3 decades.
Hello friend. i tend to agree with your statement regarding the reliability especially the AR156 Selespeed (which is a robotised manual gearbox). To be fair, it was the first mass produced system in the market. The only car that had this system was the Ferrari F355 F1. It was a new technology at that time when there are no other car manufacturer have this system. Thus its not ‘matured’ enough. Nowadays we could see most car manufacturer have switched to a system somewhat like the selespeed instead of the conventional automatic.
As for myself, i am quite lucky to own a manual AR156 2.0 16V which i brought it second hand back in 2006. Still, the car runs fine without any issues or electronic gremlins emerging…. :)…
Will i buy this Giulia if it arrives in MY? Well, it depends on the distributor and price. But the BIG factor is the price since we all know how our Govt position the tax structure right…. :(
Anyway, we only live once…. thus, if you ‘love’ the car and have the $$$ it regardless of whatever people say about its reliability and distributor, then just get it. Its your own $$$ and you have all the right to use it any way you like…. :)
You bet its nothing less than RM500k thats for sure…..if it ever comes in.
I would love to get this as well.. However, having experienced some issues with my pug 308, i might as well wait for the review with regards to reliability 1st before buying such cars.
Whether i really would get it or not will depends on whether i need it or not. Only recently i got myself a C-class, so it may be a while before i consider another purchase.
That is one sexy Alfa! You don’t buy this car because you want to sell them in 2 or 3 years time, you buy it because it looks gorgeous, even when standing still. Yes, it may not be a Ferrari or a Lamborghini but this car is surely is like Countdown’s Rachel Riley in a sexy red dress!
lol, need extra 100 horsies jz to keep up wif the M4 in 0-100 time
if dis car hav DCT, it will b achieving <3 seconds for 0-100 n on par wif a GTR