Milano name returns after a 33-year hiatus on Alfa Romeo's smallest SUV and indirect replacement for the MiTo.
Positioned below the Tonale, the Milano returns as an SUV after previously denoting a sedan in 1992. Image: Alfa Romeohas, officially, ended more than three years of speculative reports and a comparatively short teaser campaign by removing the wraps off of the all-new Milano as its smallest SUV and also first to offer a fully electric powertrain.
Reviving a name last used in 1992 for the North American version of the 75 sedan, the Milano effectively becomes Alfa’s version of the Jeep Avenger and Fiat 600e as a result of riding on the same electrified e-CMP platform instead of one of parent company Stellantis’ newer STLA architectures. Rumoured back in 2021 as heading for production in 2023 below the then still-born Tonale, the Milano indirectly replaces the MiTo as Alfa Romeo’s smallest model with dimensions of 4 170 mm in overall length, a height of 1 500 mm and width of 1 780 mm. No wheelbase figure was revealed.
Long believed to be called Brennero in reference to the Brenner mountain pass in the Italian Alps in a move similar to the Stelvio, the confirmation of the Milano name in December last year offered little in the way of other details, bar the confirmation of both electric and hybrid powertrains shared with the Avenger, 600e/600 and more recently, the Peugeot E-3008.