{"id":281703,"date":"2026-01-13T04:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281703\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:26:16","slug":"alfa-romeo-giulia-quadrifoglio-luna-rossa-is-all-about-aerodynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/281703\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Luna Rossa Is All About Aerodynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alfa Romeo has already announced it\u2019s bringing back the Quadrifoglio models<\/a>, and as it turns out, they\u2019re coming back in rather dramatic fashion with an Italian collaboration between Alfa and sailing team Luna Rossa.<\/a> Meet the Giulia Quadrifoglio Luna Rossa, revealed at the 2026 Brussels Motor Show.<\/p>\n

Before you get too excited about owning one, know that this is an extremely limited model, of which Alfa says it\u2019s only producing 10 of for the whole world. The main focus of the Luna Rossa is all in its aerodynamics\u2014fitting, for a collaboration with a sailboat racing company.<\/p>\n

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Starting in front, it has new side appendages to increase the loan on the front axle. The side skirts are designed to function with the new underbody design. This new floor is meant to generate a suction \u201cground effect,\u201d and the carbon side skirts seal the flow to push the car into the ground. <\/p>\n

The rear wing is easily the most dramatic of visual changes thanks to the bizarre \u201cdual profile\u201d design. It draws inspiration from the Luna Rossa AC75 boat, but works in the opposite direction; the design on the boat lifts it out of the water, but here, it forces the car into the ground. Alfa says the package produces 309 pounds of downforce at 186 mph, five times that of the regular car.<\/p>\n

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All of the aesthetic changes pop, too, as Alfa borrows the styling of the Luna Rossa boat that took part in the 37th America\u2019s Cup in 2024. Lots of detail worl went into the exterior, as all the bodywork is hand-painted. The 19-inch wheels are painted red, and the Alfa Romeo logos are modified with a red background, too. Plenty of visible carbon fiber adorns the car, and \u201cLuna Rossa\u201d can be read along the doors.<\/p>\n

Buyers even receive a unique interior with Sparco seats bearing graphics of the \u201cPersonal Flotation Devices\u201d used by Luna Rossa\u2019s boat crew. The dashboard has a thin film applied to it, which is the same material used by one of the layers of a Luna Rossa sail. Of course, it has a Luna Rossa logo on the seat shells, and all the carbon fiber bits you\u2019d expect in a Quadrifoglio.<\/p>\n

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The powertrain is basically the same as a regular Giulia Quadrofoglio<\/a>, as its 2.9-liter twin-turbo V-6 makes 520 horsepower and doles it out via an eight-speed automatic transmission, making use of a mechanical self-locking differential out back. Not that we were complaining about the Quad’s powerplant, anyway. <\/p>\n

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A Michigan-born car nut and racing enthusiast, Zac Palmer is talking about or thinking about cars somewhere. He bought his first when he was still 15, a 2001 Acura Integra GS-R that still resides in the garage today. It’s now joined by a 2004 Porsche Boxster S, and there will be even less practical additions to follow. Palmer worked at both Autoweek and Autoblog before joining R&T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alfa Romeo has already announced it\u2019s bringing back the Quadrifoglio models, and as it turns out, they\u2019re coming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[67114,18,141979,19,17,141981,141980,44494,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-281703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-alfa-romeo","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-giulia","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-luna-rossa","14":"tag-quadrofoglio","15":"tag-sailing","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115885898722947409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}