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Monday, March 15th 2010

All the latest news from Fiat

Fiat Punto Evo road test

The Punto Evo heralds the launch of two important ‘Ecotechnology’ developments: MultiJet II diesels and MultiAir petrols with entirely new, ultra-clever valve technology. All five engines come with Start&Stop as standard, and both the versions I tested – the 75bhp 1.3 MultiJet and the 135bhp 1.4 MultiAir produce under 130g/km of CO2. With 0-62 [...]

Model update: new Fiat Punto Evo

Think small cars and a string of super-successful Fiats should spring to mind: the ground-breaking 600, the trend-setting 127, the innovative Uno, and progressive Punto. The Fiat 127, first of the ‘superminis’, was voted Car of the Year 1972 and was destined to become Europe’s best-selling car, continuing in production until the introduction of the Fiat [...]

Fiat Punto Evo prices announced

Pricing for the forthcoming Fiat Punto Evo has just been announced by Fiat Group Automobiles UK. With a starting price of £10,995 OTR the new car, which goes on sale in the UK in January, represents outstanding value for money. At the top end of the Punto Evo range, the highly specified Sporting 1.4 MultiAir version [...]

Fiat Professional add a personal touch to their fleet service

Advertisement feature The Fiat Professional range of commercial vehicles already has a well-earned reputation for reliability and efficiency. And now with the introduction of a team of dedicated specialists they’ve added a new dimension to their fleet service – personal expertise. Fiat Professional’s fleet specialists can help answer any questions you might have when choosing the [...]

Fiat 500 breaks into UK Top 10

Further proof of the Fiat 500’s sustained success in the UK is illustrated in today’s new car registrations figures for October, in which the popular supermini breaks into the Top 10 best sellers list for the first time since its launch in January 2008. The Fiat 500 sold 2,989 units last month – well up on [...]

Back to school for Tom Chambers

Actor and reigning Strictly Come Dancing champion Tom Chambers celebrated his return to television this week by collecting a new Fiat 500C. Tom, who appears in the latest series of the BBC1 smash-hit school drama Waterloo Road, (starting tonight, 28 October, 8pm), called in to collect a Raggamuffin Red 1.2 Pop version of the sought-after Fiat [...]

Scrappage Scheme plays large part in CO2 output fall

The average new car CO2 fell by 5.5% in the first nine months of 2009 with Toyota being the first manufacturer to meet the EU target figure. The average for the Year to Date is 150.6 g/km; that’s a record 8.8 g/km less than a year ago. The current rate of improvement would enable the car [...]

E.ON takes delivery of Fiat Grande Punto vans

Leading power company E.ON, which earlier this year took delivery of more than 100 new Fiat Grande Punto vans, has ordered a further 77 of the popular commercial vehicles to add to its fleet. In April, 101 Grande Punto vans were supplied to E.ON’s meter reading division by Fiat Professional, Fiat UK’s commercial vehicle section. The [...]

Fiat signs massive fleet deal with BSM

Italian carmaker Fiat has announced that it has reached an agreement with British School of Motoring (BSM) for its Fiat 500 and Fiat Grande Punto models to roll out across it’s 14,000 strong fleet of instructor cars. The two companies signed a four year deal, after the long standing Vauxhall/BSM deal recently ended, and according to [...]

Fiat offer extra equipment at no extra cost

A range of useful and valuable equipment worth up to £995 is being made available free of charge across a variety of new commercial vehicles in a bright summer promotion from Fiat Professional. Customers will be able to select from a superb list of options including air conditioning, reverse parking sensor or camera, metallic paint, nearside [...]

Fiat 500C 1.3 MultiJet 1.4 & 16v FIRE road test

The original, rear-engined Fiat Cinquecento was launched in 1957 and it sported a fold-back fabric roof, manually operated of course. With the advent of the new Fiat 500 things have been done in reverse order; first came the hatchback (the engine’s now in the front), then the sporty Abarth and now the convertible ‘C’. [...]

Elle Macpherson and the Fiat 500C

Australian supermodel, Elle ‘The Body’ Macpherson has become on the first people in the country to get their hands on the glorious, new convertible from Fiat. We have covered the Fiat 500C extensively over the past few weeks and if further proof was needed over the cars star appeal then this photo goes a long way [...]

Fiat 500C hits the UK roads

Having made its international public debut at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show in March, the new Fiat 500 C, a convertible version of the iconic Fiat 500, goes on sale in the UK on Thursday 2 July – with the UK being the first market in the world to receive the vehicle. The stylish new Fiat [...]

Fiat Delivers With Fiorino Order For Swedish PO

Fiat Group Automobiles have delivered the first of 3,000 specifically modified Fiat Fiorino 1.3 MultiJet vans with 6-speed Comfort-matic semi-automatic transmissions to Posten, the Swedish Post Office with he first hand over being made by Lorenzo Sistino, CEO of Fiat Automobiles and Fiat Professional, to Andreas Falkenmark, CEO of Posten, at its Headquarters in Stockholm. [...]

Court approves Chrysler sale to Fiat

Carmaker, Chrysler today announces that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, has approved its request to sell substantially all of its operations to Chrysler Group LLC, the new company formed in alliance with Fiat. “With this approval, the new Chrysler Group is created and can prepare to launch as a vibrant [...]

Fiat Professional Joins Scrappage Scheme

There has never been a better time to buy a new Fiat van with the announcement that Fiat Professional, the commercial vehicle arm of Fiat Group Automobiles SpA, has confirmed it is to join the Government’s scrappage scheme. With £1000 put forward by the Treasury for motorists who scrap their old vehicles in exchange for new [...]

Change To Capital Allowance Rules In Favour Of Fiat’s Low Emissions Vehicles

From April 1, 2009 changes to the Capital Allowance rules will see attention focus more on whether a vehicle’s CO2 emissions are above or below the new 160g/km threshold. Fiat looks to benefit from this change with an expected increase in interest from fleet managers in its low-emissions vehicle range of which Fiat has 70 [...]

Fiat Retains Green Crown

Fiat Automobiles has retained its green crown for the second year running. It has been confirmed as having the lowest average value for CO2 emissions from vehicles sold in 2008: 133.7 g/km (137.3 g/km in 2007). This impressive result has been corroborated by JATO, a world leader in automotive advisory and research services, founded in [...]

Fiat 500 Abarth 1.4 Turbo Esseesse road test

Fiat’s new 500 is about the cutest and most desirable city car on sale. Following the re-launch of the famous Italian tuning brand in 2008, this even newer Abarth version is no cuter, but for keen drivers and committed petrolheads the ‘small but wicked’ 500 could prove utterly irresistible. Fiat 500 Abarth 1.4 Turbo Esseesse [...]

Fiat target Fleet Managers

Fiat is targeting Fleet Managers with the news that new Fiat cars such as the Grande Punto, 500, and Bravo come with the innovative eco:Drive Technology preinstalled which can help cut fuel costs by up to 15%. The eco:Drive technology was released during the latter half of 2008 and with the help of any standard USB stick plugged [...]

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