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Alfa Romeo Giorgio Platform Could Be Shared With Dodge, Jeep, and Even Maserati

Ever since Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that it would spend a mind-boggling €5 billion on a fully redesigned Alfa Romeo model lineup, automotive industry experts speculated that this investment wouldn't pay off. To make ends meet, it’s common sense to assume that FCA will use Alfa’s new platform for other brands in the group.
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Head honcho Sergio Marchionne let it slip that the next-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee is a candidate for the Giorgio platform back in January, but now the sweater-wearing chief exec is back with an even bigger statement.

Here’s what Sergio told Automotive News”The investment in Alfa Romeo and certainly the technical investment in the architecture was something that was designed to benefit more than Alfa. I’m happy that we have finally found clarity of thought in the extension of these architectures well beyond Alfa." Marchionne also told the cited publication, “the whole Maserati development beyond 2018” will be underpinned by the backbone of the Alfa Romeo brand.

So that’s Jeep and Maserati confirmed by Marchionne until this point of the story. More or less official reports from not that long ago also hint that the next-gen Dodge Charger, Challenger, and Barracuda will also take advantage of the Italian company's miracle platform. How adaptable can a vehicle architecture get, I wonder. If the peeps over at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will really pull off this mammoth undertaking, then my hat is off to them.

The Alfa Romeo Giorgio platform is often dubbed as a technical gem because it makes use of Ferrari know-how. Having experienced it in the Giulia Quadrifoglio and its Ferrari-derived V6, I’m pretty sure the Alfa Romeo fanboys were right. Ferrari’s current head of research and development, Philipe Krief, is the man who made the Giorgio vehicle architecture so good, all thanks to his management and a cracking team of engineers.

At the present moment, only the Giulia compact executive sedan and Stelvio compact luxury SUV make use of the Giorgio platform.
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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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