Alfa Romeo Tonale Hatchback 1.5 MHEV Veloce 5dr Auto On Lease From £496.70

Equipment

- Auto wipers with rain sensor
- Front and rear power windows with auto up/down and antipinch
- Rear wiper
- ABS
- Autonomous emergency braking inter-urban
- Electric parking brake with autohold
- Emergency braking pedestrian and vulnerable road users - interurban
- ESP
- Front/rear floor mats
- Apple car play/Android Auto
- Wireless charging pad
- Adaptive cruise control with Stop and Go
- Alfa connect box
- Alfa connect services
- Alfa dna with esc off (3 modes + esc off)
- Forward collision warning
- Intelligent speed assist
- Lane support system
- PAS
- Speed limiting device
- Traffic sign recognition (w/navigation)
- Passive / keyless entry (front doors)
- Qiuick guide in english
- Warranty handbook uk
- Drowsy driver detection
- e-Call (emergency call)
- Full tft instrument cluster - 12.3"
- Auto-dimming rear internal mirror
- Black painted mirror caps
- Electric exterior mirrors (heated)
- Electrical-folding exterior mirrors
- Backlight film graphic dashboard insert
- Biscotto stitching on dashboard
- Scuba shark black grain PU dashboard
- 10.25" radio touchscreen, usb, bluetooth audio streaming, voice controls with navigation
- DAB digital audio broadcast
- Body colour door handles
- Body colour rear spoiler
- Chrome finishing tonale badge
- Gloss black painted body kit w/ Black side and front inserts and skidplate
- Gloss black painted window surround
- Rear side wing doors
- Roof, hood and exterior mirrors protection
- Shark fin antenna
- V front bezel black
- 4 Interior puddle lights
- Auto headlamps with dusk sensor
- Auto high beam
- Full LED rear lamps
- LED blade stop light
- LED cornering projector light
- LED license plate light
- Matrix full led headlamps with adaptive system and fog light function
- U shaped LED blades DRL signature and dynamic turn indicator
- Welcome/leaving lighting
- Dual zone air conditioning with aqs (with rear airvents)
- PTC heater
- 12v plugs in the front and in trunk
- Alfa logo embroided on headrest
- Black ceiling and pillars
- Bottle storage 1l on door panel
- Centre armrest with dark grey stitching
- Door armrest with biscotto stitching
- Front armrest (integrated in the central tunnel)
- Front usb plug type a + c (charge + data)
- Metallic pedals
- Overhead console with domelamp led and switches
- Perforated leather upholstery
- Rear central armrest and 3 headrests
- Rear usb plug type a + c (charge)
- Scoba shark black grain PVC centre armrest
- Scoba shark black grain PVC upper door panel and armrest
- Sport leather steering wheel with start button
- Ambient lighting and backlighted film-carbon look
- Mono colour ambient light (included in domelamp)
- Veloce RHD MHEV pack - Tonale
- Winter pack - Tonale
- 6 airbags
- Manual rear child locks
- Rear seatbelt reminder alert
- Three 3 point rear seatbelts
- Tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS)
- 4 Ways electric driver and passenger lumbar adjustment
- 60/40 Rear seats with ski pass
- Front headrests
- Seat belt height adjustment
- Single front passenger seat
- Ventilated front seats
- Capless fuel filler
- Keyless Go
- Vehicle theft alarm with hood protection and intrusion sensor (thatcham)
- Sunvisor mirror with light (driver and passenger)
- Black and white alfa romeo logo center wheel caps
- Summer tires
- Fix and go puncture repair kit

Technical Data

- HC+NOx:
- Particles:
- Standard Euro Emissions: EURO 6
- WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Comb: 131
- WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Comb - TEH: 142
- WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Comb - TEL: 128
- Camshaft: DOHC
- Catalytic Convertor: Yes
- CC: 1,469
- Compression Ratio: 12.5:1
- Cylinder Layout: IN-LINE
- Cylinders: 4
- Cylinders - Bore (mm): 71.2
- Cylinders - Stroke (mm): 92.2
- Engine Layout: FRONT TRANSVERSE
- Fuel Delivery: TURBO DIRECT INJECTION
- Gears: 7 SPEED
- Number of Valves: 16
- Transmission: SEMI-AUTO
- EC Directive 1999/100/EC Applies: No
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Comb: 5.8
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Comb - TEH: 6.2
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Comb - TEL: 5.6
- WLTP - MPG - Comb: 48.7
- WLTP - MPG - Comb - TEH: 45.6
- WLTP - MPG - Comb - TEL: 50.4
- Alternative Fuel Qualifying: Yes
- Badge Engine CC: 1.5
- Badge Power: 160
- Based On ID:
- Coin Description: MHEV
- Coin Series: Veloce
- Generation Mark: 1
- Insurance Group 1 - 50 Effective January 07: 29E
- Man Corrosion Perforation Guarantee - Years: 8
- Manufacturers Paintwork Guarantee - Years: 3
- NCAP Adult Occupant Protection %: 83
- NCAP Child Occupant Protection %: 85
- NCAP Overall Rating - Effective February 09: 5
- NCAP Pedestrian Protection %: 67
- NCAP Safety Assist %: 85
- Safety Concerns?: No
- Service Interval Frequency - Months: 12
- Service Interval Mileage: 9,000
- Special Edition: No
- Special Order: No
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Mileage: 999,999
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Years: 3
- Vehicle Homologation Class: M1
- 0 to 60 mph (secs): No
- 0 to 62 mph (secs): 8.8
- Engine Power - BHP: 160
- Engine Power - KW: 118
- Engine Power - PS: Yes
- Engine Power - RPM: 5,750
- Engine Torque - LBS.FT: 177
- Engine Torque - MKG: 24.5
- Engine Torque - NM: 240
- Engine Torque - RPM: 1500
- Top Speed: 131
- Emissions Test Cycle: WLTP
- RDE Certification Level: RDE 2
- Alloys?: Yes
- Space Saver?: No
- Tyre Size Front: 235/45 R19
- Tyre Size Rear: 235/45 R19
- Tyre Size Spare: TYRE REPAIR KIT
- Wheel Style: N
- Wheel Type: 19" ALLOY
- Height: 1,601
- Height (including roof rails):
- Length: 4,528
- Wheelbase: 2,636
- Width: 1841
- Width (including mirrors): 2,082
- Fuel Tank Capacity (Litres): 55
- Gross Vehicle Weight: 2,135
- Luggage Capacity (Seats Down): 1550
- Luggage Capacity (Seats Up): 500
- Max. Loading Weight: 610
- Max. Roof Load: 50
- Max. Towing Weight - Braked: 1,500
- Max. Towing Weight - Unbraked: 700
- Minimum Kerbweight: 1,525
- No. of Seats: 5
- Turning Circle - Kerb to Kerb: 11.57

Review

Alfa Romeo delivers a small SUV with real passion. Jonathan Crouch looks at the Tonale.

Ten Second Review
Striking, sleek and significant, Alfa Romeo's Tonale could hardly matter more to the Milanese maker. This compact SUV comes with electrified engines, a styling nod to the past and a very lovely cabin. Can it win over Teutonic brand customers looking for a change? It'll be interesting to see.

Background
So Alfa Romeo reinvents itself. Again. A few years ago, it was as a maker cable of credible SUVs. Now, it's as an electrified brand. Well, a partly electrified brand anyway. There's no Alfa EV yet, but we do at least have a proper hybrid product - and a car that will set a course for the next generation of Alfas, this one, the Tonale. It's a small SUV that sits just below the Stelvio in the company's line-up. It would be nice to report that this crossover is heart and soul Alfa from the ground up - as new brand owners Stellantis tell us. The truth however is that almost all the engineering here, rather unpromisingly, is shared with a Jeep Compass - the chassis and both the drivetrains, which are of both the mild and plug-in hybrid sort. But if you love the marque, don't despair. We're told that this confection has been engineered with Alfa expectations very firmly in mind. And the styling certainly meets that brief, with enough pavement presence to make key German rivals look very dull indeed.

Driving Experience
This isn't an EV but it is partly electrified - though brand boss Jean-Philippe Imparato wants to qualify that: "This is an Alfa Romeo first and then it is a hybrid". What he means by that is that though most of the engines are available from more ordinary Fiats and Jeeps, the drive experience here has been developed to be uniquely Alfa. Most customers will choose the 1.5-litre 48-volt mild hybrid four cylinder unit, offered with either 130hp - or 160hp with a variable geometry turbocharger. With the latter, strong, linear acceleration is promised, the e-motor filling in at low revs, before the turbo cuts in. Your alternative at the top of the range is a potent 275hp Plug-in Hybrid petrol 4WD model. This pairs a 180hp version of an old Fiat 1.3-litre MultiAir engine with a rear-mounted 121bhp electric motor powered by a 15.5kWh battery which, when fully charged, can deliver a 37 mile EV range. The engine turns the front wheels via a 6-speed torque converter auto gearbox, while the e-motor powers the rear wheels, completing the Q4 AWD system. Our market won't get the diesel and 2.0-litre petrol options that Alfa offers in other countries.

Design and Build
If you know your Alfas, you'll recognise plenty of historical brand cues here. The Zagato SZ-style headlights, with three beams on each side; the 'telephone dial'-style wheel design; and the curved rear screen, which apparently references a Bertone Coupe from the 1960s. All of this is pretty faithful to what we saw from the inspiration model here, the concept car that the brand showed at Geneva back in 2019. Size-wise, think BMW X1 or Audi Q3. The 1.6-metre height is much the same. The length is 4.53-metres and the Tonale is 1.84-metres wide. You might be equally sold on the cabin, which places you snugly behind the chunky wheel and looks lovely when specced out with the brand's sumptuous leather upholstery. Veloce variants have beautiful aluminium shift paddles. There's new territory for Alfa with digital screens. The centre dash one is 10.25-inches in size, while the display you view through the wheel is 12.3-inches across and features some neat animations of those lovely '3x3' headlamps. Back seat space is very acceptable by class standards; a six foot rear passenger can sit behind an equally lanky front seat occupant. And there's a class competitive boot capacity figure of 500-litres.

Market and Model
The Alfa Romeo Tonale is available in two trims; 'Ti' and 'Veloce', along with exclusive 'EDIZIONE SPECIALE' launch version. Think pricing comparable to better versions of this car's most obvious three rivals, the BMW X1, the Audi Q3 and the Mercedes GLA. That means a price span in the £38,500 to £42,500 bracket. PCP deals start at £429 a month. Your Tonale will at least come well equipped for that. All variants get Alfa's usual 'DNA' drive mode selection system and quite a few variants will come with niceties like a wireless charging mat, heated and ventilated seats, a powered tailgate and a 14-speaker Harman Kardon audio system. The two cabin screens come included too, the 10.25-inch centre monitor and the 12.3-inch instrument binnacle display. All models get a bespoke-developed Integrated Brake System and Veloce variants have four-piston fixed callipers supplied by Brembo. As for damping, well mainstream versions have Frequency Selective Damping, which switches between high and low rates depending on driving style and road conditions. Top Veloce trim gets you Marelli electronically switchable dampers developed specifically for the Tonale, which work through the modes of the DNA system. 'Normal' and 'Advanced Efficiency' DNA settings leave the spring in a comfort setting; they become stiffer in 'Dynamic' mode. 'Advanced Efficiency' clicks you into full-EV drive in the PHEV model.

Cost of Ownership
If you care about efficiency, then because you can't have a Tonale diesel (in the UK at least), you'll be ordering this Alfa in 1.5-litre 48V Hybrid form. This is a Hybrid that uses the electric motor by completely disconnecting the petrol engine, which can remain idle for up to 47% of the time - or up to 62% in town. The powertrain's built-in e-motor acts to shift the operating point of the combustion engine, ensuring that it can reach maximum efficiency even in a cold vehicle. This function speeds up the catalyser warm-up transition, with further benefits in terms of fuel consumption and emissions. The hybrid power supply has multiple advantages, not least in start-up in 100% electric mode, which is smooth and silent with no fuel wasted. Subsequently, the Tonale can continue to be driven in full-electric mode, compatible with power demand and the battery charge level. Electric-only power supply can also be used for the 'e-creeping' function, to make a series of short movements forward with no pressure on the accelerator, for example in a traffic jam. The car can also be parked in 100% electric mode, either in first gear or in reverse (Alfa calls this 'e-parking'). In addition, the hybrid power supply is designed to recover energy during both braking and deceleration.

Summary
It may be some time since Alfa turned a decent profit but the allure of the brand seems to be as strong as ever - and not only to loyal customers: apparently, Volkswagen tried to buy it as recently as 2018. Sometimes, it's difficult to understand where this kind of following comes from. When Alfas were really Alfas, back in the '60s, '70s and '80s, they looked and sounded great but were unreliable and bits fell off. To address that, more recent brand owners have based mainstream Alfas on Fiat Group underpinnings, diluting the reasons people wanted them in the first place. The Tonale combines these two approaches better than any small Alfa we can remember. The looks and the cabin are, as advertised, pure Alfa Romeo. The engineering isn't, but a lot of work's been put in to give it an Alfa feel. Enough work to justify a test drive if you've a sneaking admiration for the Milanese marque? Absolutely.

Alfa Romeo Tonale Hatchback

1.5 MHEV Veloce 5dr Auto

£496.70 _{inc VAT Per Month}

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