Supercar performance in a sedan body. Mama mia!
According to our motoring friends over in Italy on their bit of Alfa Romeo news they published earlier yesterday (July 8, 2015), it looks like there’s word that the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio can hit 200 MPH if you give it the full beans. When car manufacturers in Europe want to find out what VMax (top speed) is for their sports cars, they head to one place in particular, the Nardo Ring. They don’t call it “The Ring” for nothing (not to be confused with the Nurbrugring.) Shaped in a perfect circle and measuring 7.8 miles in diameter, it’s the perfect place for supercars to reach their limits. According to Alovalolante.it, the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio was finishing up some final checks which included a blast to 60 MPH in 3.9 seconds and a top speed of 321 KMH or in American…199.46 MPH!
Yes, 200 MPH in a five seater sedan with performance that even some supercars can’t even reach. Only one car with five doors can come close to touching that VMax and it’s the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat. But the burly American tank takes an extra 197 HP to do what this Italian sedan can pull off.
Powering this supercar sedan is a Maserati-Ferrari derived 510 HP twin turbo V6 engine. In its current guise, it has 85 more HP than a BMW M3 (the car which its crosshairs are squarely aimed.) The Giulia Quadrifoglio is also .2 seconds faster to 60 MPH. Alfa plans to bring this M3 slayer to American shores sometime next year. It would be quite the face-off to have the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat and BMW M3 faceoff against this foreign competitor around the track and on the dragstrip.