APLUG-IN HYBRID vehicle is a fiendishly complicated thing to get right. Think about it. You need the best parts of an internal-combustion-engined vehicle, the best parts of an electric vehicle, and then a whole extra entity that seamlessly blends the two together. So now I’m going to ask a potentially rather loaded question. Would you trust Alfa Romeo to get all of that right?
That’s what the success or failure of Alfa Romeo’s Tonale Q4 boils down to isn’t it? If we strip away all the peripheral flim-flam, it’s a question of trust. I think most of us would trust the Japanese to be able to manage that level of complexity, but there’s a gulf in trust that Alfa Romeo needs to be able to bridge before buyers
