• The magazine’s readers crowned the new compact sports car with 16% of the votes.
  • Junior marks the brand's return to the B-segment, one of the largest in Italy and Europe.
  • It is the seventh Alfa Romeo model to receive this prestigious award.
For Alfa Romeo, 2025 has begun with a prestigious result. Quattroruote readers have named the Alfa Romeo Junior “Innovation of the Year 2025,” an authoritative award bestowed by one of Italy's leading automotive magazines. The vote, cast online by a passionate and enthusiastic audience, rewarded the Biscione brand’s latest masterpiece with 16% of preferences, surpassing the other 19 candidates selected by the magazine’s editorial staff as the greatest innovations of the past year.

Sporty at heart, compact in size and Italian style at first sight. Junior also represents the new gateway to the Alfa Romeo world for everyone, Alfisti fans and beyond, who has been awaiting the brand's return to the B-segment, one of the largest in Italy and Europe. To play a leading role, Alfa Romeo offers the sportiest and most exciting compact car to drive in the entire class, the only one that can enter into conversation with enthusiasts for the Giulietta and Mito, and attract a new generation of Alfisti fans.

Available in two configurations, hybrid and electric, the new Junior joins the other six Alfa Romeo models that have already won this contest: 147 (2001), MiTo (2009), Giulietta (2011), Giulia (2017), Stelvio (2018) and Tonale (2023).