Flashing back to February of last year, Indian Autos Blog brought you some spy shots of Fiat’s new City Car codenamed the Fiat Project 344, testing on an old Panda platform. At that time, Fiat was testing the mechanicals and the internal bits of the car while using the Panda’s body as a cover up. Today, we’ve a rendering as to what the Project 344 could look like. As you can see,...
The Fiat Viaggio, the Chinese sedan based on the Dodge Dart, will be spinning off two new body styles in the near future. The Fiat Viaggio hatchback would get a completely redesigned rear. We have already brought you the information regarding the hatchback variant which was expected to be unveiled at Auto Shanghai 2013. However, it was a no show. There is a new development now. According to Mr. Jiang...
In India, the Fiat Punto may not have received the same attention otherwise reserved to an Italian hatchback. That has not hampered the global sales of 9 million Fiat Punto’s however. Fiat has announced that 9 million Puntos have been sold around the world. Interestingly, the Punto celebrates it’s 20th birthday this year. It started retailing in Europe...
Fiat India’s outgoing Managing Director, Enrico Atanasio, has said in a recent interview that India could be considered as an export hub for the Chrysler brand. Livemint reports that Fiat is currently conducting market or feasibility studies as part of an Asia-Pacific expansion plan. This has been confirmed by two Fiat component suppliers aware of [...]
Fiat’s new found fondness towards SUVs and MPVs is now an open secret. The Italian automaker already has the Fiat 500L mini MPV in the stores and is now working on a compact crossover SUV dubbed the 500X and an extended version of the 500L called the 500XL. Little is known about the upcoming crossover [...]
The Dodge Dart-based Viaggio became the first locally produced Fiat car in China last year as the Italian brand looked to get a strong foothold in Asian markets to offset the steady sales slump in Europe. The efforts to spread the footprint of Fiat globally included launching new models in China and Korea, as well as revisiting the Tata-Fiat joint venture in India. The Fiat Viaggio facelift gets kayak...
Fiat India has scheduled the relaunch of Linea T-Jet in the month of June.
According to Indiancarsbike.in’s report, Mr Sanjay G, the Marketing Head for Fiat Chrysler India has revealed that the relaunch will take place in June. He also said that the production will get underway in May 2013.
The newly launched Maserati Ghibli at Auto Shanghai 2013 was the first diesel-powered trident-badged car ever.
It came with a 3 litre twin-turbocharged V6 diesel engine which makes 275hp and 600Nm of torque. With the services of this big diesel engine, Maserati eventually hopes to fulfill its ambitious target to sell over 50,000 units per annum by 2015.
