The Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio is One of the Best Sounding SUVS! A True BELLA MACHINNA

Here we are in the Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio. As you might say, that's a bella macchina. What's up guys? Welcome to another video. It's Christopher here from Cars Unlocked. I'm super pumped to behind the wheel of this car. This is definitely your performance and luxury style SUV. You get performance, you get luxury, all combined into one. It's a real pleasure to drive and it packs a big punch here. 505 horsepower and 443 pounds feet of torque. It's attached to an eight speed automatic transmission and a Ferrari derived twin turbo engine with the 2.9 liter V6. So a ton of power. You can definitely race in this thing and it takes off. This Alfa Romeo is one of the best sounding SUVs that I've ever driven. A lot going on with this front end here. You can see this little smaller triangle front grill here. That's synonymous with the Alfa Romeos. I do like the functioning hood scoops. They're not full hood scoops. They do serve a purpose here and they do add to the sporty appeal of the car. The side license plate looks great with the bracket right to the side here and it's below these LED headlamps. The LED strips are at the top as well. Adds to the visibility. And then we do have a couple sensors as well here for things like your adaptive cruise control and your safety settings. There's a lot going on with the side profile. Carbon fiber is a big theme in this vehicle. You can see we do have the carbon fiber mirror caps as well. And then this is a nice little conversation piece with these Alfa Romeo Quadrifoglios is this four leaf clover badging that's very subtle and themed throughout the vehicle. You'll see this badging quite often throughout the video. Basically in the 1920s, an Italian race car driver brought a four leaf clover into his car with him for the race. And ever since then, it's just been a good luck charm for Alfa Romeo and it's synonymous with this Quadrifoglio brand. So that's how you know it is this performance package for the Alfa Romeos. I gotta talk about these tire and rims. So super wide Ferrari P Zero tires sitting on this 20 inch rims. We do have our Blackdale Alfa Romeo brake calipers and I gotta bring your attention to the rear here because we do have dual brake calipers as well. That's just gonna help with the stopping when you go at those fast speeds. On the back, you can see we have this Q4 badging that's to identify as the Quadrifoglio and the four wheel drive. Our Raptor emblem, that's gonna come extra. You can add that if you're a Toronto Raptors fan. And then we have our Stelvio badging as well. Parking sensors are right above this quad exhaust. It's not a full quad exhaust so really helps with the sound of this vehicle. And then we have our backup camera above our plate. The backup camera could be done a little better. I'm not a fan of the backup camera. This is a high quality SUV and you deserve a high quality camera to help you park. You can kind of see that it's not in the same format as the rest of the vehicle. Right away, here's what's jumping out at me when you jump in. When you jump into this nice bolstered seat here, it's a comfortable seat but it also feels sporty. Everything is power operated. You can go up to a full carbon fiber seat but you would lose your heated and climate controlled seats as well. So if you want the heated seats, you would stick with this package here but you can go up to the carbon fiber seats. The carbon fiber is all throughout the car. Like it's all on the dash, all in the doors, all in the center console. You can see it on the wheel here and it really helps with the look of this car. I thought it would be too much but I'm actually digging it. With the red exterior and the red stitching, when you get in this car, you really know that it's a high end SUV. And then the wheel, like I gotta talk about the wheel and these paddle shifters. Aluminum paddle shifters and they're very large. They're column mounted paddle shifters. They're not hooked onto the wheel like other vehicles. They're column mounted. So it makes it nice and easy to switch, especially when you're in that race mode, which is really like the funnest way to drive this car is in that race mode. And then you can up and down shift using the paddles. I also like how the push button starts right on the wheel here. It's right next to the car. Our start stop engine button, you can see is right onto the wheel here. And then we do have like our radio settings. We do have our intelligent cruise control as well. Our dynamic radar cruise, that's gonna help you keep a safe distance in front of you. It will also stop for you as well. And then our volume buttons are right on the wheel here as well for our radio system. One thing I like about the screen behind that's in between your gauge clusters is the digital speedometer. So it really helps you increase speed as well. And then when I put it into this race mode, it does say to shift in manual. That's another thing. It tells you for best experiences, you should have it in the manual mode. And then as you accelerate, when it's time to shift, it will notify you here and you can hear those shifts. And it pretty much tells you when you should be shifting. I just like this instrument cluster. You can't change it very much. There's really only one way to drive it to have the cluster set up. But I do like how it is set up and you really don't need to change it. It's an 8.8 inch infotainment system. It's gonna do your Apple CarPlay, your Android Auto, all those necessities. My one upsetting thing is that it's not a touchscreen. You do get the dial here, so you can shift through and use your dial and select button to control your radio and your screen. And you have a separate dial for your radio volume and your tracks and things like that. But I would like maybe to see a touchscreen. Other than that, it actually is a pretty free flowing screen. See, we can go through our drive modes here. Here's our radio screen. And then we have our temperature displayed at the bottom here. So I do like the screen. I just wish it was a touchscreen. So this is the moment that I've been waiting for. We're in the race mode. We're gonna do a quick launch. Woo! Zero to 60 in 3.4 seconds. I think that might've been quicker. Holy damn. You could hear the thing take off and you can feel it take off. There was no slip, no traction. Oh my God. Super fun. I don't know why you would drive this car not in race mode. Like when you drive it in the other modes, it just doesn't compare. It doesn't sound the same. There's basically like a DNA drive shift mode where you can do a couple different things with the car. You can see it in the front here. You can have your dynamic mode, your drive modes, your neutral modes. But I would just drive it in race mode all the time. And then you can adjust the suspension too if you want to dampen the suspension or anything like that for a softer ride. Yes, I thoroughly enjoy that. Super fun. So if you do want that sporty feel, you use the race mode. If you're just driving the kids to school in the morning, maybe you'll want to drive it in the normal mode. But that is a lot of fun. Holy smokes. Not a huge amount of space in the back seat, but that carbon fiber and red stitching does continue in the back. It's all across our door panels. It's in our center console. I do like the hard seat back. That does help if you have young kids. But for a guy like me, I could sit comfortably back here for a while with three of us. I probably wouldn't be too comfortable. Does have a rear power lift gate. And then it does open up to quite a bit of space. I like the tunnel cover. I also like the latches to release the seats. So there's none of that walking around and dropping the seats down. We do have our storage compartments here underneath as well. And then there's a little bit of a latch downs here. If you do have accessories or anything you want to latch down to the trunk, you can latch it down. We have a 12 volt power outlet and 115 volt here. If you're at the beach, charging those air mattresses and inflating them, things like that, you can plug right in. So there you have it guys. Let me know what you think of the video of this Alfa Romeo. If you have any questions, as always, comment in the comment section below. Subscribe to Cars Unlocked. I'm gonna be posting more unlocks like this, more vehicle tips, comparisons, car reviews. Have a great day.