Start with what the Alfa Romeo Gloria is: a 4-door saloon with 2.4L V6, built from 2013, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to European Design Institute.
The story
The Alfa Romeo Gloria is a concept compact executive car made by the Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo. It was first shown to the public at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2013. Unusually, the concept was designed by 20 students of transportation design at the European Design Institute of Turin.
What is underneath
The engine is 2.4L V6. Drive goes through a 6-speed automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 114.2 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Infiniti Q50, the Mazda CX-5, the Peugeot 208. Nearby in the Alfa Romeo catalogue sit the A.L.F.A 12 HP and the A.L.F.A 15 HP.