welcome to Stef AB TV on my right mr. petrol Ped. I'm kind of
in a bit of a challenge and I'm trying to film a bit of content for you on what is
This brand new facelift Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce the most obvious thing
about this car of course is that well it's the colour isn't it what do you
think of this my orcher yellow car it is beautiful it's lovely and and
unfortunately because the weather is pants we're in Puglia for goodness sake
it's meant to be lovely I know it's horrible weather but in the sunshine
this paintwork is stunning. I wont say it pops. I will say it pops. I dont use the word pop. Yes but you have used it
around my company before so yeah no I agree I think this this colour the
yellow looks really really nice and one of the things I think we a little bit I
think it reminds me of a more deeper kinda bronze Zeno looking colour
that you'd find on the aventador SVJ granted that's a lot lighter but has a
kind of similar feel for it which is very cool now what's changed from an
engine perspective I'll be honest, nothing it's still a two litre 4cyl
engine running around 280 horsepower it's doing a 5 second 0 to 60 time which is
very respectable we do still have the issue of not being able to turn off the
traction control on this car which I guess right now is probably the it's
quite a sensible thing but it does limit you a little bit just. You are just making an excuse
that's why you didn't go around that corner fully sideways
so yes so from an exterior perspective color has changed engine remains the
same the real changes on this
car come from the interior that's kind of where all the changes happen so if I
start with what's directly in front of me so the steering wheel has changed as
well some of the buttons have changed slightly on this car and the main reason
the band's have changes to house the new level two autonomous driving
yeah the other thing we get is changes to the TFT screen which is directly in
front of me and if you watch Pete's video people say exactly the same is the
when we first figured about the TFT 7-inch we thought would be able almost
virtual cockpit style I'm a little underwhelmed yeah and I can see I know
the Alfas Romeos are about passion and emotion about driving I get that and by having
these analog dials almost kind of connects a little bit more but I still
think now yeah I would agree with you. the other thing is the centre MMI or
what is it we call this HMI so this now is it benefits from the
fact that it's a touchscreen which is a really good thing it's really kind of
bringing it back in line with what majority of other manufacturers are
doing but also it's not let me change the lane. I will touch on this in a moment and also the fact
that we've been able to keep the wheel as well which i think is very very good
I know Joe if Joe Achilles is watching this joe is not a fan of touchscreen
only he likes having the ability to kind of uses the clicker wheel so Joe Giulia Veloce is
great for your buddy and we're missing you yes exactly that
You just saw the I was struggling to change lane and the reason that is there
I didn't turn my indicator on early enough because that's just me not
driving properly but too we have now got the active Lane Assist so in the past
you had a passive Lane Assist which would kind of make this kind of noise if
you kind of swing out into the other Lane where is now they've kind of very
similar to what you find this one out in BMW you get steering vibration and feel
and it pulls you away from the road and they're sure indicating in advance to
make that maneuver the other things that we get is a blind spot one you can
active blind spot so for example if there's a blind spot over my left
shoulder and I think it's a great idea just to send it it will make a very loud
noise and it would also prevent me from doing so what else do we get on this we
get the adaptive cruise control yes we have two modes highway mode and traffic
mode I think we need to test both of those I think so I'm not convinced about
traffic jam modes I think we'll definitely explore that now Before we
jump into the stelvio and experience the level two autonomous Drive it's
probably worthwhile explaining what trim levels you can expect to see from the
model year twenty cars coming to the UK the entry level model will be called the
super you can expect 200 bhp from the petrol 190 bhp from the diesel both of
these cars will be rear-wheel drive and they provide a great base spec. pricing
for the UK is still yet to be announced but will be announced shortly next up in
the range is the sprint model which runs the same engine and horsepower as the
previous one stated however it runs a four-wheel drive platform
the luxury and comfort model is called the lusso TI and it runs the same
performance and engine variant as the all-wheel-drive sprint
however as expected in the title you would expect to see more luxury in this
model the flagship model which is the one Pete and I are driving is the
Veloce. The veloce is a petrol that runs 280 bhp and the diesel equivalent runs
210 bhp both come with all-wheel-drive and everything that I've mentioned is
mirrored in both Julia and Stelvio one of the things I've always said is the
interior needs to be a little bit more updated to bring it more in line with
its competition and Alfa have done exactly that so the center console gets
a complete refresh which is good we've got different styling a much more much
nicer feel for the gear lever we have more storage as well. the
cupholders are bigger we get more additional storage down here and also we
get wireless charging which is good the fact on the steering wheel we obviously
have the level 2 autonomous driving which means we have additional buttons
in here so we have got Lane Assist we have got two types of autonomous driving
we've got traffic jam mode which basically is up to 0 to 60 miles per
hour and then from 60 mile-an-hour all the way up you have the highway mode
which we will try out in the Stelvio very shortly the TFT display in the
centre has been improved obviously the old infotainment system was pants we all
know that in the fact it was so basic this looks much much better I'm much
more of a fan of this and also the cool thing is because this is almost like you
can in your mobile phone if you like you can drag and drop like apps which i
think is really cool and I think it's just a nice touch so yeah so I think
infotainment is definitely definitely much improved which is what it needed so
what we're going to do now or we're going to take a go and have a look at
the Stelvio and have a bit more of an exploration there because we've got
more time more like the interior on both cars been refreshed so what you'll see
in the Stelvio will effectively the same thing in the Giulia so we're gonna jump
in the stelvio now and we will catch up with you in a bit
so I'm just trying that this traffic jam thing oh yeah she's gonna say it's a
traffic jam so I've set it to the speed limit yeah what it does is it kind of
works out whether it can go into autonomous mode you get these green bars
either side of your little picture there yeah and it doesn't do that all the time
so it's not like you can use it oh here we go I'm on green now in traffic
mode yeah so basically it's a straight that I wrote which doesn't help but it
would if I was just beer out of Lane especially there's an articulated lorry
coming of the way yeah it just basically actively steers me
back in yeah it's it works
I was shadowing the brakes who did they see that's interesting and I think that
I don't think that's just this car I think a lot of the kind of autonomous
gonna cruise control and no active braking and presense I think they are
almost a bit quiet there are almost a little bit late and even though it does
work it does really test you doesn't it's like it's almost like a game of
chicken how long do you wait before you put the anchors oh yeah now I would use
that in a traffic jam yes I wouldn't use it in a town for me there's far too many
things happening that guy nearly pulled out there's lots of stuff happening
around yeah and for me as a driver I want to be in control of that yeah
right so we're on we are on the other side
and now we can actually give the highway a go. I am at 130kph
I've got my green lights yeah now in auto mode
he's a hands-on feature yeah because it's still level two but I'm not gonna
basically put any input to this theory yeah now I've driven a couple of cars
with this before but sometimes you get you go around the corner almost like the
fifty pence piece it kind of does yeah very smooth
impressive and there's a truck coming so will obviously have to now what this
doesn't do you feel to compare it with something like Tesla yeah with their
autopilot system you can do exactly what we do now with tester but then when you
indicate the car pulls out here you it doesn't do that what it does do is when
you indicate it basically allows you to change lanes now they said I would use
this great if you're doing lots of miles it's just you still have to keep your
hands on the wheel but it just allows you to you still have to focus but it's
just a bit more relaxing so I'm now gonna so I was gonna say confident are
you in it? I am now.. ok look at me and hold it through this corner
no it's good and I think we're you and I think where this really comes into its
own because I was fortunate to take a BMW to Geneva and it would be the very
similar concept with it it's it will allow you to do some really long
distances and get to the other end without feeling really mentally drained
yeah because you really do start to sometimes forgets I mean like now you're
looking at me a lot more now because I season but but it does it just it's good
and I think people find real value and you service but you're not gonna sit
here and read a book or do some editing not win the driving a car yeah we're not
there yet I mean the day that we can sit down and edit a video was driving it's
gonna be incredible we'll have so much time bring it on
yeah so yes I think in summary it's a really nice addition that kind of
enhances Stelvio and Giulia Veloce tho what they should be, any final thoughts
I have to be super impressed with the driving driving I think it's just a nice
refresh I'm sure there'll be people the plane is not back dramatic yeah but
actually what's been done it's been done really well yeah and I think he can have
the car which is there most importantly I agree man as always pleasure not
having you on the channel thank you so much another trip down with Stef and
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