Strip the Alfa Romeo Junior back to its specification sheet and the character is already there: Petrol engine, 136 PS. Alfa Romeo built from 2024, in the decade the industry is turning electric. Centro Stile Alfa Romeo under Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos drew it.
The background
The Alfa Romeo Junior (Type 966) is a subcompact crossover SUV (B-segment) produced by the Italian company Alfa Romeo since 2024. At its introduction, it is the smallest Alfa Romeo currently on sale. During its introduction, the Junior was launched as the Alfa Romeo Milano.
Following a complaint from the Italian government that claimed it is illegal to sell "Italian-sounding" products that were not produced in Italy, Alfa Romeo renamed the vehicle to Junior. The nameplate was previously used by the brand for entry models of the 105- and 115-series Giulia coupes as well as Zagato-bodied Giulias in the 1960s and 1970s. The previous name, Milano was the US-market name for the Alfa Romeo 75 saloon, and a reference to Alfa Romeo's hometown, Milan.
The engineering
Power comes from Petrol engine; 136 PS is the published figure; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1380–1635 kg. Work it out per tonne and you get about 99 horsepower — brisk everyday performance. It shifts through a 6-speed e-DCT. The wheelbase is 2550 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at Tychy (FCA Poland), Poland. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Kia EV6, the Hyundai ST1, the Hyundai Ioniq 9 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Alfa Romeo stablemates include the A.L.F.A 12 HP and the A.L.F.A 15 HP.