Alfa Romeo?s Giulia Quadrifoglio should be in the next James Bond film. Not in some bit part?central casting should bump Aston Martin and give it the lead.
Bond cars often possess button activated superpowers. At the turn of a dial, the Quadrifoglio transforms from sport sedan to a turbo snorting, rail-cornering, 191 mph track car.
That?s what tech, digitization, and clever engineering can infuse into an automobile these days.

[Photo: ARQ.MOTOR] To get there Alfa Romeo enhanced its Giulia base model. The Turin based manufacturer adorned it with the company?s legacy racing emblem?the four-leaf clover (or Quadrifoglio in Italian)?and added an all-aluminum, 505 horsepower twin-turbo V-6 engine that delivers 443 foot pounds of torque.
The 3800 pound rear-wheel drive car puts power to pavement through an 8 speed automatic transmission and 11 inch wide Pirelli skins. Drivers have the option of passive auto or banging out gears on paddle shifters or the mid-console stick. 
The Giulia Quadrifoglio?s central nervous system is its DNA drive mode system?a computer controlled from a mid-console dial?that?s wired into multiple sensors all over the car. This digital brain offers four driving modes that instantly synchronize default settings of engine output, power delivery, brakes, and suspension.
On the tame end of the spectrum, Advanced Efficiency mode curbs the engine for maximum fuel consumption and optimizes electronic stability control systems (EST and ASR) for safety. Natur...