Good news if you want to buy an Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio: they’re great. All of them. Whether old or new, standard or GTA, series production or limited edition, there’s not a bad one in the bunch. The very latest is the greatest, thanks to the new diff, but lots of the good stuff is familiar from back in 2016. With time running out for combustion-powered Alfa Romeo, it’s a great base for some more specials.
Hopefully one or two more interesting than the recent Super Sprint, that’s for sure. (For anyone who'd forgotten, that was the black one from a couple of months back.) The Alfa Romeo Racing F1 Edition, on the other hand, was much more like it. While Alfa’s involvement with F1 racing seems like yonks ago, Audi’s confirmation that it has taken over what was the Sauber team meant that its final race was only at the end of last season. The announcement came in 2022, three years after this Giulia - and the Stelvio equivalent - were launched. In the not-too-distant future, a V6-powered Alfa Romeo celebrating an F1 association could well feel like science fiction.
It was an interesting upgrade, the Racing Edition. The incredible livery was the most obvious change, though there was also an aerokit - see the side skirts and rear bootlid spoiler most noticeably - said to have had some influence from the actual Sauber F1 folk. Even if they merely okayed it, the add-ons look good. Factor in the Akrapovic titanium exhaust for 520hp in total - same as a new Quadrifoglio - and it felt like the Racing just about did justice to the name. Anyone who saw it at Festival of Speed in 2019 would surely have noticed the special Giulia, even among everything else.
That was probably the last sighting, however, as even by limited edition standards the Alfa is fantastically rare. Of a global 35-unit (!) allocation, the UK - reflecting its significance as a market, hopefully - got almost a third of them. But that is still just 10 cars. So to have this example going under the hammer through PH auctions is worth highlighting. It really isn’t every day you see an Alfa Romeo Racing Edition Giulia. If you’re like us, you might not ever have seen one at all.
Registered in 2020, this one has covered a little more than 3,000 miles, and therefore presents as pretty much brand new. The Sparco carbon-shelled seats look barely sat in, the sticker set is as attention-grabbing as ever, the teledial wheels flawless. Again, there’s no such thing as a bad-looking Giulia Quadrifoglio, but short of a GTAm it’s hard to imagine a more impactful one than a Racing Editon.
Priced from £90k new, this won’t be the way into a modern V6 Alfa for hot hatch money. Already the bidding is up to £10k with five days left to run, as this really is one of those opportunities that doesn’t come up very often. The Quadrifoglio was the best Alfa in decades, and a derivative this seldom seen will surely always be collectible. Bidding is this way…
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