The Alfa Romeo Mito Will Be Killed Off Soon

Alfa Romeo will be calling time on its ageing supermini next year ahead of a new product offensive

15 Aug 2018

The Mito is a car that Alfa Romeo probably doesn’t want kicking around in its showrooms right now. It’s an ageing, Punto-based linked to the old Alfa - a company that flogged rehashed Fiats in the hope that some added emotional appeal and oddball triangular grilles might make them stand out from the masses.

Both it and the Giulietta look a little awkward next to the company’s newer products - underpinned by the bespoke rear/all-wheel drive Giorgio architecture - so it should come as no surprise that the Mito is for the chop.

The car’s fate was already looking likely when the supermini failed to appear on Alfa Romeo’s five-year road map for the future - revealed last June - but now Alfa’s European boss Roberta Zerbi has confirmed that it will be taken off sale early 2019.

Speaking to Autocar, she suggested that the move wasn’t just to do with the car’s age. “Mito is a three-door and people are choosing more and more five-door cars,” she explained, adding that the brand’s incoming smaller SUV will fill the void for the younger market. “It can help fill the gap between the Giulietta and Stelvio. And people that bought a Mito in the last couple of years – people grow up, start having children,” she said.

Sadly, this sort of buyer does not want a small estate car these days, and thus, a Giulia estate is not part of that five-year roadmap either. Boo…

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

RIP to yet another legend in my opinion…Was adorable…

Let’s hope it goes out with a V6 version at least, to keep the car guys happy

They should create another small car like the Mito, but not built under the Punto architecture

A small SUV would be more profitable

RIP, i really like the mito

Hell yeah, more room for some more SUVs…..can´t wait….-.-

Well I guess it is its time to MiGo

Sojzim8(#RichardConcept2020) oops

Well I’m not really surprised… It’s has been built 10 years now which is a long time for a car (compare it to American cars in the 60s. There was a redesign every year) and well yes. The market is changing. I think it’s sad that they replace it with a crossover and not with another hatchback… But well… Nothing we can do

About time. They already stopped production in July this year. They are only selling off remainders of stock right now. It’s a 10-year-old car (based on the 13-year-old Fiat Punto), so it’s due for a replacement anyways.