Article content The Giulia takes its name from the Alfa Romeo Giulietta that preceded it, and while the old tale that both are inspired by Romeo and Juliet might just be a rumour, our star-cross’d sports sedan has, like the play, come to a sad end. As of the 2024 model year, the Giulia Quadrifoglio will be discontinued, though Stellantis execs haven hinted that some electrified version might be in the future. For now though, the Giulia QF is dead.
The audience at large is unlikely to shed as many tears as they might have at a Shakespearean tragedy. Not only are sport sedans a dwindling market compared to crossovers, sales-wise, but picking a high-performance Giulia over the likes of a BMW M3 or Mercedes-AMG C63 was also something of a risky choice. It was developed at breakneck pace, by industry standards, and perhaps because of this, early cars were plagued by faults.
Then again, having your heart broken by an Alfa Romeo is kinda part of the whole experience. On its debut for the 2017 model year, the Giulia Quadrifoglio also had a slight advantage, as it was pitched against the fifth-generation M3, a car that wasn’t quite as good as the Bavarian sport sedans that came before or after it. The Alfa put paid to its rivals in many a comparison test, then let down owners with frequent reliability issues.
Even though it appears that recent cars were more dependable, and that the four-cylinder version didn’t have quite the same teething troubles as the QF, picking a Giulia in.