TestDrive: Alfa Romeo Stelvio Competizione

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	All right, full acceleration. It's not kidding around. It's not. Hey, make short work of the on-ramp there.
0:08.5	For a little tiny four cylinder. Oh, yeah. This has power beyond what the stats suggest.
0:15.0	I agree to that.
0:16.0	Yes.
0:17.0	The Al-Castelvio we have not driven before, but this is the 2024,
0:21.0	competitioni.
0:22.0	Competizioni, all-wheel drive for just under $60,000.
0:25.0	This has an inline 4, turbocharged,
0:28.0	making 280 horsepower and 306 pound feet of torque.
0:31.0	It sounds like adequate. It sounds okay on paper. There's many SUVs that have
0:35.8	about 280 horsepower somewhere in there and they're fine. But this moves like most
0:41.6	SUVs don't. I think that's BMW horsepower because whatever the number is is not correct.
0:47.0	It has more than that. It certainly feels like it. This is this feels like one of the more powerful four cylinder turbos we've driven.
0:55.0	And it's not even the four-leaf clover?
0:56.7	It's not.
0:57.7	No, it's not because that has the really cool v6 that's available in the quadrapholio of the Julia and the stelbio.
1:03.4	Well over 500 horsepower.
1:04.4	This has a lot.
1:05.4	The base engine, but I've said it before on the podcast.
1:08.3	We're related to the Julia.
1:09.3	It's true here as well.
1:10.9	That base engine seems down on power until you drive it. I agree. I actually
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