FIAT News

Well, given how much McLaren Mercedes knows about Ferrari, they might as well make it official

I'd be wary of linking up with Daimler if I were FIAT..I mean..would you want to be associated with cars that rust prematurely and are unreliable

What Merc are after is somewhere cheap to build their smaller cars..maybe in the Fiat/Suzuki factory in the czech republic

AlfaLincs

Fiat goes Brazilian

Marchionne recently announced $2.7bn worth of investments in production plants in Brazil. Fiat's existing Betim plant is expected to become Fiat's largest production base in the world.

According to the German carmag Auto Motor und Sport, Daimler has broken off discussions with Fiat about possible JVs.

Hooray

The Grande Punto has been chosen as 2008 Car of the Year in Brazil.

Marchionne yesterday dropped the news that in case the stock market were to penalise Fiat shares for being a conglomerate, he may think about a spin off of the car division. Stock price went up almost 6% on the back of this.

Fiat has now formally terminated their JV in China with Nanjing Motors, leaving it free to pursue a deeper agreement and cooperation with Chery (who, btw, is supposed to be building Alfa's in China!).

Also, Chery and Fiat signed on 6th September 2007 a memorandum of understanding to have China build components for Magneti Marelli's selespeed gearbox

Hopefully, the Chinese will bring some build quality to selespeeds

Originally Posted by BigFoot

Hopefully, the Chinese will bring some build quality to selespeeds

Fiat announced today that they'll make the Grande Punto and Linea cars in India with Tata Motors and also import the 500 and Bravo (through Tata dealers).

Fiat has received 6,000 orders for the new 500 in the UK.

Pretty impressive!

I ordered 5000 of those.. just to make sure I get near the top of the list!


Ralf S.

Which colour Ralf?

Originally Posted by BigFoot

Agreed with you on that one!

But I bet you, this is a way for FIAT to get sign off from the Commies to sell more cars in China (market economy my butt!).

And a timely recognition that manufacturing in emerging markets will drive the world's economic activity in future as the role of the US and it's hangers on declines.

The Fiat group closed 2007 recording €2.054bn of net profits, more than double the 2006 figures

Apparently Fiat is working on a dual dry clutch transmission newslinky

Fiat has halted production of its 1.3 Multijet engine to assess anomalies with an externally supplied part. Suspending production of the engine will have repercussions on delivery volumes in February.

Fiat announced that production of cars with the 1.3 Multijet engine will start again by tomorrow (26th Feb).

Originally Posted by BigFoot

Fiat announced that production of cars with the 1.3 Multijet engine will start again by tomorrow (26th Feb).

good news,but does little to help the 800 odd vehicles held at port,vehicles on hold at dealers (unable to deliver) and the ones which have already been delivered,assume a recall will be in order shortly,many of the cars being for march the first delivery including the much awaited fiat 500

Ive read is was faulty head gaskets. Most cars have not been delivered yet. My sister got hers last week and wasnt on the list, though the car that went out with hers (both 1.3MJ) was on the list, so will probably be recalled.
I think it shows Fiats quality system is working well

Originally Posted by PR

Ive read is was faulty head gaskets. Most cars have not been delivered yet. My sister got hers last week and wasnt on the list, though the car that went out with hers (both 1.3MJ) was on the list, so will probably be recalled.
I think it shows Fiats quality system is working well

i think head gasket failure is the result not the cause (i could be wrong)
most of the cars will not be delivered as people are waiting for new plate which is good news
bad news is most of the expected 1st march cars are on hold at the port or dealers, not sure customers will be so tolerant ,when they are told cars are unable to be released as many will be expecting them next weekend and insurance and payments will be already in place, whilst they may or may not have their quality system working,
i wonder how they will fair on customer services, which is likely to fall on the dealers especially as march 1st falls on weekend

Fiat will start making Bravos at the Pomigliano dArco factory from September.

Originally Posted by BigFoot

Fiat will start making Bravos at the Pomigliano dArco factory from September.

Painting and some parts of the assembley as far as I read anyway (on Italiaspeed)