Alfa tweaks The Plan. Again.

A leaked official document has shown yet another upgrade to Alfa Romeo’s new model rollout and mid-term business plan, which in 2014 called for eight models and 400,000 sales by 2018, although that figure was reduced to 150,000 early this year.

The Italian car-maker's previous product plan included two compact cars, two mid-size cars, a full-size sedan, two SUVs and one specialty car, starting with the mid-size Gulia sedan and Stelvio SUV by the end of this year (2017 in Australia).

Posted on an Italian automotive forum Auto Pareri after being presented to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) investors earlier this week, the new plan delays the completion of the eight-model rollout until mid-2020 and confirms the end of the unloved MiTo three-door hatchback, which will be effectively replaced by a compact crossover possibly named the Kamal.

While that’s scant reward for a model that basically kept the lights on in Alfa showrooms for years, the flipside will be a full range of three SUVs by 2020, including a small one aimed directly at Audi’s Q3, BMW’s X1 and Benz’s GLA, positioned beneath the Stelvio as well as the long-planned larger version.

It's not clear whether the small SUV will be based on the Fiat 500X, or whether the large SUV will share its platform with the Maserati Ghibli and Levante.

The mid-size Stelvio is due to make its public debut at the Los Angeles motor show in November before heading into showrooms midway through 2017 to compete with Audi’s Q5, Benz’s GLC, BMW’s X3 and the Porsche Macan, while the large Alfa SUV will rival the BMW X5, Range Rover Sport and Porsche Cayenne.

Like the Jaguar XE and F-PACE, however, the Stelvio's engineering is closely related to the Giulia sedan, which lead Alfa’s most recent comeback when it made its debut early this year (early next year here), and both models were developed simultaneously by an engineering skunkworks based out of Maserati’s Modena headquarters, rather than Alfa’s base in Turin.

While they share the same all-wheel drive architecture and powertrains, that’s more than we can say for the six additional models Alfa plans to launch within the next four years.

The plan always called for a belated replacement for the 166 – a larger sedan to take on the Audi A6, Mercedes-Benz E-Class and BMW 5 Series – and a small hatchback to replace the Giulietta, but is now also confirmed to include two 'specialty' models, likely two-door coupe and convertible versions of the Giulia.