Alfa perfected the modern luxury SUV recipe in 2003 but no one got to taste it
Alfa Romeo recently confirmed plans to take on the Porsche Cayenne with an all-new luxury SUV. It will be based on parent firm Stellantis’s largest car architecture and will prove crucial as the brand attempts to stimulate demand in the US. It’s a familiar formula – so much so that Alfa has actually been here before. At the 2003 Geneva motor show it lifted the covers off the Kamal, a striking BMW X5 rival.
Nonetheless, the Kamal was still “very much being considered”, according to Alfa insiders. By August 2007, it was back on. Now codenamed CXOver, it was to be twinned with a Fiat crossover, using the underpinnings from the 147’s replacement. It would offer turbo petrol and diesel power and prices would range from £19k to £30k . It was a clear departure from the original Kamal brief in all but styling, save for a coupé-like roofline.
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