Alfa Romeo Stelvio QV or BMW X4 M Competition? Comparison - Sports Cars
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Alfa Romeo Stelvio QV or BMW X4 M Competition? Comparison - Sports Cars
An open challenge between two of the best sport utility vehicles on the market. Who will win on paper?
Spacious, practical, capable of tackling long journeys, snowy roads and city traffic without batting an eye, but also destroying a winding road when the opportunity arises.
It is a Super sports SUV, a category whose population has been declining in recent years. These almost two-ton monsters manage to subordinate the laws of physics to their liking, revealing agility that was unthinkable a few years ago for a car of this mass.
The two best representatives of the category will compete in the ring of our FACE-OFF:Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifollo и BMW X4 M Performance... Two cars with very similar characteristics and temperaments, at least on paper. Let's see the data with whom they agree.
Summing up
Alfa Romeo Stelvio QV
| engine | V6 turbo |
| bias | 2,9 liters |
| Potenza | 510 Cv in 6.500 weights |
| couple | From 600 Nm to 2.500 inputs |
| price | 96.550 euro |
BMW X4 M competition
| engine | 6 cylinders in a row, turbo |
| bias | 3,0 liters |
| Potenza | 510 h.p. between 5.000 and 7.000 rpm |
| couple | 600 Nm from 2.600 to 5.500 rpm |
| price | 96.920 euro |
dimensions
TheAlfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifollo it is slightly shorter and wider than BMW X4 M, even if the eye can be deceiving. Italian measures 470 см length, 196 см wide and 168 см high; German is 6 cm longer (476 cm) and denser 3 (193 cm)but it is also lower than i am 6cm, which helps to lower the center of gravity.
However, Alpha has an advantage in terms of the weightby stopping the balance arrow a 1905 kg against i 1970 kg BMW, the difference is that there is practically a passenger on board.
Емкость trunk: 525 liters for both.
Thus, the Stelvio is shorter, lighter and more compact, while the BMW is heavier but lower.
Potenza
Both SUVs are powered by an engine. six-cylinder turbo: 6-liter V2,9 for Stelvio, 3,0-liter inline six for the X4 M... The gearbox is also one 8-speed ZF for both, albeit with different control units.
But let's take a look at the strength: V6 from Stelvio QV Provides 510 Cv up to 6.500 inputs up to 600 Nm of torque at 2.500 rpm... Six-cylinder engine BMW M X4 – in the Competition version – always gives 510 h.p. and 600 Nm of torquebut the power is constant between 5.000 ei 7.500 entries and a couple between 2.600 ei 5.500 entries... Thus, the Stelvio has a more powerful engine with a shorter range, while the BMW has more linear and distributed thrust even at high revs.
Either way, on paper, the two rivals are really close.
performance
La BMW X4 M Performance, according to German tradition, the maximum speed is limited 250 km / h, While Stelvio freely get to 283 km / h.
Even in the frame from 0 to 100 km / h the Italian wins (also thanks to the lower weight) and stops the clock at 3,8 seconds versus 4,1 della BMW X4 M Competition.
