Hello I am new to this forum. Since moving to Portugal from Ontario, Canada in 2003, we bought our first Fiat car which is a used 1999 Fiat Palio Weekend station wagon. My parents and I love it very much. Is the Fiat Palio Weekend a popular car in the UK? Can anybody tell me anything about these cars?

No the Palio is not sold in in the UK.

The model was never available in the UK

Palio is the 'developing country' version of the Punto. Weekend version is just a slightly longer version.

i have seen just one palio in the uk, it's a polish registered saloon, with a abarth motorsport sunstrip.........oh dear.....

I have seen a Palio too.. At Tesco, Polish registered. No sunstrip though

RudyDaCosta said:

Can anybody tell me anything about these cars?

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The Palio ( Weekend) has nothing in common with the Punto.
It is based on the Brazilian Uno, and was Fiat's attempt to build a so called "World Car".
The project started somewhere in the nineties and was called WCP 178 WCP=Word Car Project.
Although not very successfully in Europe, in many other part of the world, the palio is already built in it's 4th version, and is built in several factory's around the world.
In Brazil, one of the largest car markets in the world, the car is still very successfully, even in rally racing...
(The Pick-Up version of the Palio, the Strada, is still sold in Europe.)
We drive a 2000 model Palio Weekend 1,6-16V, built by Fiat-Tofas in Turkey for more than 6 years and 100.000 km now, and like the car a lot!
We intend to keep it for some more years!
In Holland only about 3500 were sold between 1996 and 2001, the Mk2 and later versions didn't make it to our market...!

Never seen one in the UK, I'm afraid, although I may well of seen some in Europe last year, can't remember though! I think that releasing the Palio in the UK would have the same effect as the Stilo did; "A good car, with much to offer, but not vastly popular".



The Palio does kind of represent an MK2-B Punto, looking at the front headlight cluster and also, the rear slanted angle seems to look similar to a Punto's rear angle.

If you're planning on coming to the UK (I'm guessing that's why you asked if it was popular!), these are perfectly drivable on the British roads, so you could drive up to Calais and have it imported to Dover. Just beware - we drive on the opposite side of the roads to those in Europe (and Canada, too!) - driving on the left as opposed to the right. So it might prove easier to have a right hand drive car (with steering wheel on the right), easier to check mirrors etc.

Fiat has planned to bring the Palio Weekend to the UK, around 1998, but at last, they didn't.
I guess it was to costly to build a rhd version, just for the UK....