More horsepower, less weight and a whole series of changes (with lots of carbon and new aerodynamic solutions) to raise the performance of a sedan, theAlfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio, which is already a real supercar disguised as a sedan. Here is the recipe for Giulia GTA and the extreme variant best suited to the track Gtam which even lacks the rear seat replaced by a carbon-coated tub Alcantara with specific shapes designed to accommodate helmets and fire extinguisher.
Giulia GTA and GTAm were to be the stars of the 2020 Geneva Motor Show, then canceled due to a pandemic, the health crisis therefore delayed the arrival of the production cars of these cars pulled in 500 units for a total of 1,000 units.
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We went to try them on Balocco, historic Alfa Romeo track and test center where all Alfa Romeos have been tested and developed since 1961, including the legendary one Giulia GTA Gran Turismo Lightened of 1965, which the new Alfa Romeos are inspired by in the philosophy of reducing the masses. In fact, derived from the Giulia Quadrifoglio, the new GTA is designed with the aim of improving aerodynamics and handling. The engineers have mainly focused on weight reduction with the extensive use of carbon fiber elements.
Under the hood of the new Giulia GTA runs the Alfa Romeo 2.9 V6 Bi-Turbo engine made entirely of aluminum and credited with 540 horsepower against the 510 of the Giulia Quadrifoglio: 30 more horsepower obtained, explain the Alfa Romeo engineers, not only via software , with a remapping but with interventions on the hardware, on the mechanics that also involved the revision of the cooling systems. Among the changes, the Akrapovič central exhaust system, which we have already seen on the four-leaf clover Racing, in titanium integrated into the carbon fiber rear diffuser, stands out.
The unpublished works are spectacular circles gives 20 inches monodado, for the first time on a sedan, with a typically Alfa Romeo deign that houses Michelin Pilot Sport Cup2 connect tires 285/30 at the rear and 265/30 at the front where we find a double wishbone suspension while at the rear there is a multilink point specially.