Giulia Quadrifoglio Becomes a Road Legal DTM Car

Anyone with an ounce of petrol in their veins knows about the incredible DTM machines of the 1990s. Among the famous BMW M3 and Mercedes 190E, the Alfa 155 was an object of desire for many car fans. And now one Italian company has managed to recreate that magic for a new age.

The result is the 55-SGT, a carbon-bodied tribute to the Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti DTM, the touring car that beat the Germans on their own turf. It wears the period clues with conviction, from the upright nose and square lamps to the white wheels and oversized rear wing. It’s so convincing that you’d hardly guess what’s underneath… a modern-day Giulia.

A New Look

Stand in front of the 55-SGT, and the first impression is of a car squashed low and stretched wide. The bonnet line sits blunt and formal, the headlights are rectangular rather than sleek, and the splitter looks like it means business. The fenders are flared over the tyres, just like the silhouette Alfa Romeo used when it tried to intimidate Mercedes-Benz and Audi on their own turf.

The full carbon-fibre body changes more than the panels; it gives the car an entirely different look from every angle. The side view is long and clean, almost like a design exercise from an alternate 1990s. The tail is dominated by a giant fixed wing, full-width lighting, and a deep lower section that finishes the car with real touring-car menace.

White wheels looks as though they were stolen straight from a racecar. On the original 155 V6 Ti DTM, they are part of the mental picture everyone still has of the car. SGT Automobili is staying close to the original brief.

The cabin is race-ready

The inside is where the 55-SGT stops pretending to be friendly sedan. The Giulia started life as a sharp, usable family car with four doors. SGT stripped that away and turned the cockpit into a two-seater with a roll-bar. That choice changes the whole personality of the build.

Rear-seat duty, daily flexibility, and the usual executive-saloon expectations are gone. In their place is a more focused, more specialised environment that looks much closer to a road-going competition car than a showroom Alfa. The roll-bar alone sends a clear message. This is about lap times over occupany comfort.

Plenty of restomods borrow old racing shapes and then keep the soft underbelly of the original car. The 55-SGT does the opposite. It strips out the family-car logic, and builds the whole experience around the idea that a road car can still behave like a machine from an Italian motorsport fever dream.

Power options

Under the skin, SGT keeps the 2,9-litre twin-turbocharged V6 from the Giulia Quadrifoglio, but there are differing levels of power to exploit. Power outputs start at 383 kW and rise as high as 456 kW for the top version. The drivetrain setup is a fully configurable all-wheel-drive system with adjustable torque split. The original 155 V6 Ti DTM was famous for exploiting sophisticated AWD hardware to beat the field, and the 55-SGT tries to echo that exact level of control.

Torque vectoring is part of the package too, along with independently adjustable dampers and multiple engine maps. That gives the driver a proper spread of behaviour, from one setup for street use to another that sounds like it was written for a track-day driver with no patience for softness.

Real Aerodynamics

The rear wing is the most obvious nod to the 155 V6 Ti DTM, and it is there for more than nostalgia. SGT scaled the idea up for the Giulia’s larger body and then added active aerodynamic elements that can be controlled from the cockpit. The claim is up to 300 kg of downforce at speed.

The 55-SGT does not look like a tribute built to sit quietly in a collection. It looks like a car that wants to wake up the same part of your brain that still remembers when a winged Alfa in white wheels could turn a circuit into a fight.