After looking at the re-styled Fiat Grande Punto Evo, I am sure many of you would question why Fiat introduced the older model in India.
The new spy shot, for the first time, reveals the full front fascia of the car. The embedded plastic strip with the fog lamps, I’m sure, would be body colored in the high end model! The base Fiat Grande Punto Evo would have them black.
The extra lamps would come in handy during an early morning fog. This technically makes it a dual bumper car, and customers would have to pay even more now to get both in body color! The Fiat dealership paint shops better be equipped for the rush.
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One of our favorite Fiats, the Grande Punto, has got an adorable face lift, an almost different front end and a few more changes on the rear (visible in the images). We have been having a watchful eye on the face lifted model for the last few months.
This model is not yet reached the production, it will come only after its debut at the Frankfurt show in September.
The hugely successful Grande Punto was launched almost four years go in 2005 in Europe and has proved to be one of the best in the segment. It was launched very recently in India with petrol and diesel engines.
The earlier design was also admired and appreciated a lot, so changing it would have been a bit of a challenge.
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In the form of the Grande Punto, Indians have got a brand new car to boast about. Very soon, people in other countries will also receive one, and that car would arrive in India say in two years time.
By then, an all-new Grande Punto would have penetrated markets overseas. And the story continues.
Bottom line – many manufacturers unload the old, somewhat outdated stuff into India. Note, I’m not taking anything away from Fiat or the Grande Punto.
Neither am I referring to Maruti Suzuki who lived most of their life in India by introducing ‘new’ cars that were already an average grandfather’s age.
