{"id":35790,"date":"2026-02-26T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=35790"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:30:29","slug":"payne-turbo-alfa-tonale-proves-less-is-more-with-italian-flair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/payne-turbo-alfa-tonale-proves-less-is-more-with-italian-flair","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Turbo Alfa Tonale proves less is more with Italian flair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/02\/24\/PDTN\/88843606007-alfa-romeo-tonale-fr-34.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The 2026 Alfa Romeo Tonale gets a big refresh for 2026 with only one turbo-4 engine offering, cheaper prices, more standard features, and lighter weight for improved performance.\" width=\"541\" height=\"305\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The 2026 Alfa Romeo Tonale gets a big refresh for 2026 with only one turbo-4 engine offering, cheaper prices, more standard features, and lighter weight for improved performance.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Oakland County<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Unburdened of its mission as the standard-bearer of an electric Alfa Romeo brand, the subcompact Tonale SUV can finally live\u00a0<em>la dolce vita.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For 2026, Alfa\u2019s tasty, turbocharged, gas-fired appetizer is lighter, cheaper, more fun. Less is more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gone is Alfa\u2019s dream to be an Italian Tesla. Gone, too, is Tonale\u2019s plug-in hybrid drivetrain with 30 miles of battery-only range that I flogged across Italy at the SUV\u2019s introduction in 2023. I thought I might miss the hybrid\u2019s electric motor and instant, 347 pound-feet of torque to complement a healthy 285 hp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/foreign\/2026\/02\/25\/review-turbo-alfa-tonale-proves-less-is-more-with-italian-flair\/88842055007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Alfa Romeo Tonale gets a big refresh for 2026 with only one turbo-4 engine offering, cheaper prices, more standard features, and lighter weight for improved performance. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Oakland County\u00a0\u2014 Unburdened of its mission as the standard-bearer of an electric Alfa Romeo brand, the subcompact Tonale SUV can finally live\u00a0la [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35795,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35790\/revisions\/35795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}