Giulia and Stelvio Collezione nod to Quadrifoglio power
The story of Alfa Romeo’s Quadrifoglio is quite an interesting one. It all began in 1923 when driver Ugo Sivocci painted a green four-leaf clover on a white diamond on his Alfa Romeo RL for luck. He then won the 1923 Targa Florio, and since then, the symbol has been associated with the brand’s racing success.
The history chronicles tell us Sivocci died a few months later while testing a car that didn’t carry the clover emblem. After that tragedy, the clover on a white lozenge became a lasting tribute and a racing mojo for Alfa. By 1963, Alfa Romeo introduced the racing clover to public roads with the Giulia Ti Super, the first production model to bear the emblem. And honestly, that’s where the good kind of chaos began.
Today, the emblem is worn by the brand’s highest-performance and most dynamic models, carrying a pure motorsport pedigree, such as the Giulia and Stelvio Quadrifoglio. There’s no denying the fact that the duo is one of the most fun and engaging high-performance models to ever come out of the Alfa Romeo stable. They are modern icons that deserve a mention whenever fun, engaging, and dramatic vehicles are mentioned.
That said, the Turin-based marque is celebrating 63 years of the Quadrifoglio with the introduction of the Giulia and Stelvio Collezione limited-edition models. To commemorate the year, only 63 units will be built at the brand’s Cassino factory and will be certified as ‘Instant Classics’ by the Alfa Romeo Classiche and will be painted in two new exclusive shades, ‘Rosso Collezione Giulia’ and ‘Rosso Collezione Stelvio’, both inspired by ‘Rosso Villa D’Este’ used on the 33 Stradale.
That aside, both models come standard with an Akrapovič exhaust, as well as carbon-fibre details on the front badge, mirror caps, centre tunnel, and dashboard. There’s also an exposed carbon roof, backed up by a standard carbon-ceramic braking system.
Inside, the cabin gets a leather-wrapped dashboard with red stitching, along with leather-and-Alcantara seats embroidered with each car’s unique number on the headrests: ‘1 di 63 Collezione’. The rest of the passenger compartment is fitted with Sparco seats featuring a carbon-fibre shell, plus leather-upholstered door panels and a matching central armrest.
Under the bonnet, you still get the same 2.9-litre V6 with its unmistakable Ferrari DNA and still pushing 375kW and 600Nm to the rear wheels through an 8-speed auto. And honestly, we’re not complaining. This powertrain just works. In a world where electrification is softening everything, this thing stays true to its ethos and rawness.
In a world full of over-complicated cars, these two, even the regular models, show that driving should be fun, full of character, and a little wild. If you’ve ever doubted if Alfa still has that fire, the Collezione duo exists to prove a point, and a hard one to ignore.
