2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale Review – I Dare You to Watch This
Pasta is one of the world’s most popular meals you can eat it in Italy or you can eat it in America let’s see if my mates think this Alpha Romeo is closer to Olive Garden than it is to Rome I’m Jacob I’m Yuri we’re going for a
Drive the all new 2024 Alpha Romeo tonal V without launch control side distance warning unavailable [Applause] go it’s pretty torgy it’s pretty torky not the greatest plug in hybrid horsepower and torque 285 horsepower 347 lb feet of torque from a 1.3 l 4-cylinder turbo plug-in hybrid and Yuri
Those numbers do not feel like what we’re experiencing in here I don’t know what’s going on yeah so I don’t know much about this car you’ve been driving it all week you got lots to inform me I love love Italian cars Italian cars are the best they have done nothing wrong
They are amazing everyone should get one and this is the reason that I stole this car from Yuri all week because this would turn into a Yuri unhinged review where he would just love on everything so number one I would like to speak about reliability because that is going
To be the number one comment on our video how can we judge reliability we only have these cars for a week and they don’t break in the first week do they here’s the thing this one did so right now uh it’s not so mean to
So right now if I try and use the lane keep assist and also if I try in the highway I get a warning active driving assist unavailable service required it has not worked all week the next problem that I’ve had as I’m driving into the sun earlier
In the day I start getting warning signs on my dash for my Collision sensors uh not working so then I turn away from the sun and the errors go away I turn back into the sun and the airs pop up again look man so when you face the Sun the
Collision sensors don’t work in the morning when the sun’s at a low angle in this vehicle particularly next thing when you start it up in the morning on a cold start yes you’re in battery mode because this is a plugin hybrid the blower motor sounds like it already
Needs to be replaced on the passenger side like it’s it’s squeaking and squealing and I know you know this cuz I sent you that clip hey man my Fiat does that too sometimes yes your Fiat that has gone through a transmission that a clutch and an engine that is because
We’re doing bad things to a fi no it wasn’t not yet the the transmission that last guy did it okay so those are all of the actual problems that I’ve had only those can I say some good things about it absolutely is this not the best looking little SUV ever
Like it is great looking the color the wheels like it’s game over for every other company that makes Wheels they all suck compared to this you you are 100% correct these are gorgeous Wheels Alpha Romeo top trim wheels are always perfect they look so cool in the rolling shots
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To check your recommended winter or summer Tire next thing the headlights fantastic design tail lights absolutely amazing I’m not going to argue with you on any of those points I actually think this is quite a good looking SUV and I can’t get over how good this paint is this paint
Is immaculate best green I’ve ever seen in my entire life this paint combined with the awesome Body Lines like the body lines are great too this is like the Mazda crystal solar Red Metallic but the Italian version yes and the Body Lines remind me a lot about the Dodge
Hornet because that’s exactly what this car is except the front bumper and the tail lights so the best part is is hornet stole the design from Alfa Romeo not the other way around right that’s right this is actually built in Italy and the Hornet is also built in Italy
Yeah which we keep referring to the Hornet as the Dodge Dart we just can’t get that out of our head but uh and to to remind you we’ve got an Italian flag in here yri press that button that’s actually oh see you see this uh sticker right
Here this Mopar yeah Mopar noar Mopar noar Mopar no car baby okay uh with the looks do we have exhaust tips yes we do what does it sound like from the outside what does it sound like from the inside downshift downshift with these lovely Paddles I hear like a a hum yeah uh so this is e all-wheel drive and the only reason we have all wheeel Drive is because we have a motor in the back so what you’re hearing is the motor in the back otherwise it’s actually pretty quiet in here doesn’t doesn’t really
Sound great at all but that’s fine like this isn’t for people who want a sporty cool sounding car that’s right it’s a plug-in hybrid and we do have some Drive modes because this is an Alpha Romeo we’ve got DNA wouldn’t it be DN sure so D is your performance mode n is your
Natural or uh regular mode and a is your fully electric mode and then you can also fully turn off the traction and then you can also change the suspension but only when you’re in D or full suspension mode and the suspension’s a little bit firm but it’s not that bad
And then you can also dial that back well Alpha’s kind of got to be a little sporty right that’s right so like it does handle which I will through cliche Corner okay and I guess we’re going to save uh all the electric launches and stuff for Yuri absolutely Yuri I like
Doing that stuff and because this is an Alpha Romeo we’ve got the engine start stop button on the steering wheel which is pretty cool but it’s not red which means this is not the craziest version of all time yes and then if you looked at a Dodge Dart or whatever that car is
Called The Hornet they switched the drive mode with the start stop otherwise it’s the same hey you got you got to do what you got to do yeah okay so we’re going to send this in the cliche Corner in uh traction Off full suspension full stiff and these paddles Which you also
Get on the Hornet optional paddles yes on this uh are actually quite great to use although we’ve got a sixspeed in here and it’s not great it’s slow to shift and all that stuff but handling wise it’s pretty decent I don’t know what’s going on uh kind of feels a
Little disconnected there’s not that much body roll for what I’m expecting here but it’s like steering it’s over steering like it’s It Gets You Through but it’s not pretty no but nobody who buys this car is going to want to do pretty handling uh maybe I don’t think
So I think this is like I don’t want to get a BMW I’d rather get this cuz the X1 would compete with this and because the e- motor is in the back uh you do still get some boost to the front but it is primarily front-wheel drive and when I
Drove this with zero charge in it I think I got like 180 horsepower out of this and it felt like that and I just I wanted to just turn the car off very mad until this got a good amount of battery charge well let’s get you in here with a
Half battery right now full electric mode can I do launch control you’re boosting the rear right now full EV not pushing the kick down pedal you got 100% dude that that gauge on the right was pretty laggy it was what Fray rate is that yeah I haven’t got the lag yet
Hey you get up the speed yeah you get up the speed in all electric mode if I let off it is not regenerating but I think if I go to D mode yes when I let off it is regenerating yeah you can’t come to a
Full stop with it and I guess PS usually don’t let you do that anyway so no exactly no harm no foul there but we do have a really cool mode that’s called eave over here next to the Italian flag and you can actually customize what that does in the infotainment so you can
Either save how much battery you’re currently at or you can charge it up to a certain level that you can customize which is amazing and this is what I wanted in the S-Class plug-in hybrid and this is the infotainment from I guess the grand Wagoner all the new Chrysler
Stuff yes and the Maseratis everything’s getting this and it is laggy AF I don’t know how this passed anything this shouldn’t be in a vehicle because this is a brand new car this isn’t like a a 15-year-old Hellcat that I can excuse some certain things this is brand new
Yeah it’s it’s slow I’m kind of forgiving when it comes to like lag screen popping up especially if yeah yeah if it has this flag in it but like this is like really bad and then uh the Apple carplay yeah so it uh turns out Apple carplay likes to stop
Working on me about every second day so there’s that the icons are so small like the tyon you pointed that out to me and yes it would be very difficult to use they need to do a software update guys you need to do a software update where everything is a little bigger so
Your finger can touch stuff I know people may be like hey Yuri you’re giving these things to infamia people what do you know you know what they fixed that toota stuff they did so I’m always right Yuri always right Teran that’s what they like to call me except
When it comes to loving Alpha Romeos and Italian cars and Fiats that are broken always I still love them anyways but the infotainment is pretty uh all right like you do have your 360 camera that you can put up there 360 camera is nice I love that but
It is laggy uh the actual frame rate is laggy when you’re driving around in reverse too much lag in here yes compared to the Grand Wagoner which I did not feel had that kind of lag but behind this infotainment this um what is this silver textured plastic looks
Really nice during the day and at night it also looks even cooler cuz it’s got green like the paint all right let’s see if I can uh pop some check engine lights launch control is my traction all the way off no you have to pull this all
The way for like a couple second like a Ferrari you know Yu I actually don’t uh manual motor drive whatever you want that was better yeah I got the warning and it is auto upshifting cuz you left it in drive yeah it’s nice that’s good power but it is nice that it won’t
Automatically upshift for you when you put it into manual so right now if you’re full in manual I would suggest a downshift but suggest all you want hey it’s good a good amount of control over everything getting a decent amount of wind noise over here but uh yeah bro
This is like an economy SUV is it though the price well I mean if if it’s combined with a Dodge SUV like a the smallest SUV is always like the most economy version yes even though this is like a luxury brand or whatever yeah and
I mean I want to say just get the Dodge because of the price but I will get to that later uh before I get to that the range for this in full plug-in mode is about 48 km which is actually okay it’s not the greatest but it takes
From 10% when I charge this to get to 100% takes about 10 hours on a wall plug and it doesn’t have DC fast it just has level level two yeah so that’ll take about like two two and a half hours which is pretty reasonable all right
Let’s see if I can handle through here yeah it’s a very wormy yes and by wormy Yuri means that the front does not feel connected to the back like they’re catching up to each other yeah because the steering is very uh direct like the the smallest amount of input gives you
Output yeah but because of that and combined with the rear e motor stuff it just feels a little weird feels nice yeah it’s pretty comfy like even in D mode with the suspension thing like it’s not again smooth road but on rougher roads you can definitely feel it yeah
Well we’ve driven some like what was that truck we drove here uh theor don’t compare this to a body on frame don’t even don’t even do that okay so we got Plastics that are kind of cheap down here and we got Plastics that are cheap
Up here but we got this like really nice soft material down here I like that yeah it’s a good it’s a good trick we got really nice comfy seats yeah they’re a little firm uh not the most comfortable I wish they’re also a little bit more bolstered forward back up down lumbar in
Their smallest SUV a lot of other companies wouldn’t do that right or would they and I actually fit behind myself which is also very impressive trunk room not the greatest but what you’d expect in a class of vehicle of this size yeah it’s okay but we do have
Grocery bag hangers back there that quite nice and buttons to close and lock that’s to go to your Italian bakery that’s where you go right I don’t know I feel like I feel like this is just a real estate agent car yeah probably all right uh what other cool
Stuff can we talk about cup holders terrible they’re actually behind where you don’t like them and I started to not like them and then the second cup holder back here is basically unusable because of this uh center console I noticed that I BMP my armrest on this like every
Single time but once you’re in it actually no it’s still oh ex yeah extend now once you extend it it makes sense yeah and it completely blocks that now okay umu go please don’t fall off Mopar no car Mopar no car 3 two 1 yes good job
Okay so that’s a pass full Redemption right there gauge cluster is nice I have my Speedo digital in the middle that’s all I really ever want and all the other gauges and stuff for seeing if you’re in EV mode is pretty clear I like the old style analog looking like rolling number
Things yeah the quality of them uh visually is actually really nice other than the lag that you get sometimes from the tachometer or the geis times 100 ometer but they actually look really cool yeah and I like this like bubble on the dash too I like overall like and one
Of my favorite parts and your favorite part too is the logo they slightly changed the Alpha Romeo logo from the steering wheel to the plug in the face which is amazing cool that’s like 10 out of 10 uh graphic design cleverness yeah like whoever did that I hope you got
Every rise possible because that is I bet you one guy drew that and they’re like damn it now we have to do the whole switch to EV like the logo is too good the logo is too good and then uh I also really like how the back door when it
Opens up how that part of the door comes with it you like that I like it but I almost hit me in the face yeah but I do like it okay just like you like blowing engine Fiats same level yeah I still like it and if you wanted to buy your
Own Alfa Romeo tonal or Dodge version of this The Hornet go to tsp. truecar.com you’re going to want the tonal you know what you know what like the Dodge is going to have the same issues maybe you could take this to a Dodge dealership that’s what I was thinking as well yeah
They’ll be like oh yeah you got one of those fancy fancy Hornets maybe they’re not certified to work on an Alpha Romeo yeah or can dealerships not handle hornets do you have to take your Hornet to an Alpha Romeo dealership I they couldn’t do that and I guess since this
Is all-wheel drive you’ll probably be driving this in Winter right you should be get a set of tux matat to protect your beautiful Italian interior go to tuxmat dcom theay pipes to see what they have for your car and then talking about the infotainment this competes with an
X1 right yep bro we got hard button climate stuff it’s really nice you know what X1 doesn’t have hard button climate stuff does it have the full digital display I don’t remember pretty does yeah I’m pretty sure all that new stuff cuz I drove that by myself but I
Literally don’t remember and then uh I also noticed a funny thing is when I tried to turn down the volume first I went for the vent that’s not the volume up then I went for the drive mode that’s not the volume up I went for the cigarette lighter that’s not the volume
Knob and then I found the slider down here I did all the same things and then I couldn’t actually see the slider because the drive yeah it’s blocking me too you just got to know yeah yeah oh you know what like overall besides uh everything like stuff breaking yeah by
The way this thing has like like 800 kilometers on it yeah maybe it’s like early I don’t I don’t know man what do you want me to say besides the I want you I want you to be honest about having a problem with SUVs that are broken at
800 km I’m sure once it gets fixed like if if it when it works it’s nice it hasn’t worked we don’t even know if the link cube is good okay we don’t know but everything else has been nice I enjoy it I love looking at it I would love to
Look at this in my driveway over so many other SUVs and if you wanted to look at this in your driveway how much does it cost let’s get to the price this one costs $73,345 ,000 if they’re like both made in Italy and got to get sent to like
America like it’s going to cost like a similar amount so like I can’t even say just get the Dodge just get this you have to just get this would you get this over an X1 bro you have to you have to as long as you’re close enough to a dealership
Like whatever bro you got extra cars that’s the only reason I’d have to yeah and this doesn’t really have any other plug-in hybrid competitors in the size no it like nothing’s a direct competitor except the Dodge the Dodge have a plugin hybrid one yeah the Hornet is a plugin hybrid yeah yeah
And it’s got It’s got common mounted paddles it’s got the same ones and it even has like uh boost Stinger mode or a PO shot mode and it has a hornet instead of the Vel logos editor find me uh the marketing behind why that has the first ever dodged Callum mounted paddles
They’re not going to explain that uh but they will say that it’s an RT model which is a performance model just like the charger and the Challenger and his models like that cool man anyways this car is cool let let us know if you enjoyed Sergio trying to justify this
And Sergio is Yuri’s Italian counterpart don’t be mean I’m just being honest you can be honest but don’t be mean I’m not this car is fantastic parts of it are I would love to have own one oh my God I would love to leas went through our
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