Alfa Romeo Tonale: The SUV that proves practicality and passion are not opposites
For a long time, the compact SUV segment felt like a place where driving enjoyment quietly disappeared. Practical, sensible, competent. Fine words that do not exactly make you want to get behind the wheel for the sake of it. The Alfa Romeo Tonale arrived and changed that conversation. Not by ignoring what a compact SUV needs to be but by refusing to accept that usefulness and character cannot exist in the same vehicle. How it drives This is where the tonale separates itself from the segment average most clearly. The steering has feel. The chassis responds to input rather than just absorbing it. It does not drive like something that was engineered purely around comfort scores and safety ratings. It drives like an Alfa. As if the smallest and most inviting of the offerings up to that point, but with enough similar bits of DNA in them to make any linkages to a brand credible as opposed to some tacky piece of plastic embodied in a badge on a bonnet. That distinction matters to buyers looki...