Things are getting a little racy for the Fiat 500. With just days to go before the race-inspired 500 Abarth is unveiled in Geneva, and just weeks to go before the 500 makes its racing debut in Melbourne, comes news of a new 500 racing series to take place in Europe. Called the 5Hundred Cup, […]
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It’d be far too easy to dismiss the Lancia Delta over here. Made by a quirky and obscure division of Fiat, Lancia hasn’t sold vehicles in the United States since 1982. Although the Italian automaker has a rich history, its current models are rather strange and mostly undesirable. But this is the vehicle that could […]
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This morning, we brought you a Fiat-provided doodle showing a super-deformed 500 Abarth meant to give us a gist of what to expect when the Italian automaker pulls the cover off the Scorpion-emblazoned performance variant. What we didn’t expect was that we’d be seeing official images on the same day we posted the sketch. Thanks […]
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If you get e-newsletters from Fiat, you’ll have noticed an ambiguous email in your inbox this Saturday. The email contained an advisory to mark the dates February 18 and 19 on your calendar, next to the Abarth logo for Fiat’s performance division. Given that the email was the 500 newsletter, that can only mean one […]
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Every year in Rome is held a luxury show called the Scrigno, Tesori d’Italia, which roughly translates to mean the Italian Treasure Chest. Last year we showed you a Maserati Quattroporte by Studio M that was dipped in gold. To be more specific, it’s paint was mixed 24k gold powder. The 2008 event concluded today […]
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Hot on the heels of news concerning Lancia’s product-led revival comes the announcement from the quirky Fiat division that the production version of the upcoming Delta will indeed be unveiled at the upcoming Geneva show. The images released show that the final version, based on a lengthened Fiat Bravo platform, has lost little from the […]
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Fiat’s undeniably adorable 500 has closed off the year with yet another award. The retro-licious little supermini already won the car award of all car awards when it took the 2008 European Car of the Year award, which it somehow managed to squeeze into its little hatch packed with the Auto Europa 2008 award, EuroCarBody […]
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Fiat and Nanjing may have divorced their marriage on passenger cars, but that shouldn’t affect their offspring. Following Fiat’s withdrawal from its joint venture with the Chinese automaker, production of three current Fiat models at the Nanjing plant is expected to continue.
With demand for the Sino-Italian cars slowly dwindling, Nanjing Fiat Auto was expected to […]
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The upcoming Alfa Romeo 169 flagship sedan is slated to be based on a modified platform from sister-company Maserati, but a potential tie-in with Jaguar could provide an interesting alternative.
A report from British magazine Autocar recalls that Alfa’s parent company Fiat initially expressed interest in acquiring Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford, but decided to […]
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Paolo Martinelli is a name familiar to anyone who follows the technical side of Formula 1 racing. He joined Ferrari’s powertrain department after graduating college in 1978, and has been in charge of the Scuderia’s engine development program since 1994. Last year, however, Martinelli left Maranello for an executive role at Ferrari’s parent company Fiat. […]
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The Italians are known for making great sports cars, touring cars, supercars, even little itty-bitty cars. Sport-utes, not so much. Lamborghini’s monster LM002 notwithstanding, the last time few times Fiat tried its hand at SUVs, it came up with the Sedici (a slightly taller than normal compact car built in partnership with Suzuki) and the […]
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Driving
The Bravo is offered with an innovative 1.4-litre T-Jet turbocharged engine, which combines small-capacity economy with large-engine performance. There are more conventional (and cheaper) petrol units also on offer. But it’s the 1.9-litre MultiJet turbodiesel that we got our hands on first – and it’s a real gem, in both the 150bhp guise we tested, […]
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Fiat’s new Bravo and the Toyota Auris both achieved the top five-star rating. So did Honda’s new Legend, which also gained three stars for pedestrian safety compared with the others’ two stars. Mitsubishi’s Outlander and the Honda CR-V were each awarded four stars overall.
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