An Alfa Romeo Giulia Estate Isn't Happening, And It's All The Stelvio's Fault

It looks like the Giulia Sportwagon has become a casualty of our SUV-obsessed age, with Alfa Romeo confirming it won't build one
An Alfa Romeo Giulia Estate Isn't Happening, And It's All The Stelvio's Fault

If you were looking forward to the prospect of a wagon-bodied Alfa Romeo Giulia, we have some bad news: it’s not going to happen.

Speaking to Car magazine, Alfa Romeo manufacturing chief Alfredo Altavilla confirmed what estate-obsessed petrolheads across the world won’t want to hear. “We decided not to do a Giulia Sportwagon,” he said, adding: “Do we really need it if the Stelvio SUV drives that well? Maybe not…Stelvio can capture all the people who would otherwise have been interested in the SW.”

You can blame the Stelvio for killing off any chance of a Giulia Sportwagon
You can blame the Stelvio for killing off any chance of a Giulia Sportwagon

In short, the chance of a Giulia Sportwagon appearing as anything other than a render has been killed off by the Stelvio SUV. This isn’t all that surprising, as the rise in SUV sales has coincided with a fall in demand for premium estates. Last year for instance Ian Callum said that a Jaguar XE Sportbrake wouldn’t happen due to low demand. And Jaguar’s best selling car is? Why, it’s the F-Pace SUV, of course.

Regardless, the Stelvio doesn’t seem like such a bad substitute, and we’re looking forward to trying it out soon. All we need to do is purge our memories of all those gorgeous Giulia Sportwagon renders…

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Comments

Anonymous

But the Stelvio has the proportions of a big red bullfrog, especially from the rear! Yuck!

02/09/2017 - 18:03 |
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Anonymous

We don’t want a fat faux-by-four, we want a sportwagon

02/09/2017 - 18:05 |
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Antiprius

That’s like Ferrari saying “No, we won’t build the 488 because we have the FF.” One is not a substitute for the other.

02/09/2017 - 21:13 |
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Anonymous

Even worse than not having an estate version is that the giulia was supposed to come only with a manual and that didnt happen

02/09/2017 - 21:59 |
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That_NSX_Guy

Lets just DIY it

02/09/2017 - 22:14 |
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Anonymous

The disappointment lvl Prius level

02/09/2017 - 23:56 |
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FUGL_S60 (Tesla Lover 800)

STOP HATING! The Alfa Romeo Stelvio is amazing! The Quadrifoglio version is so fast that only a Bentayga can beat it! I am also not interested in any other station wagons unless it’s Audi, Volvo or Mercedes cause other station wagons are not as good!

02/10/2017 - 01:45 |
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Wogmidget

FFS Alfa, the Stelvio would simply not be as good a road car (because SUVs ironically never get taken off-road) as a Giula wagon, which would be smaller, lighter, nimbler, faster, and probably cheaper to run.

02/10/2017 - 05:51 |
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Gabriel Siegel

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

02/10/2017 - 12:00 |
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Stefan Dräxler

This makes me sad :(

02/10/2017 - 14:14 |
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