Has Fiat really got a passion for its cars anymore?
A lot of what its producing of late seems to be hobbled together. Yes what's on the outside is nice looking apart from the hideous 500l or MPW.
Look closer at the GP - it looks nice on the outside granted. The interior of the first one was very bland and plasticky and poor built with dropping glove boxes etc. Not pretty, and no different to your standard run of the mill hatch.
On top of that reading the comments of "I would never buy a Vauxhall" what do you think some of the tech fiat use is from? They bygone GM era.
The GP is. 30% Vauxhall Corsa underneath sharing various mechanical and electrical components. Throw into the mix it's worse to drive and does not have the old Italian verve, most of the engines are sluggish old school and noisy bar the top ones. They don't rev and sing like an Italian engine would be expected of. The GP is simply a typical eurobox hatch that's look nice.
The 500 is based on an old chassis of the panda, and again a nice looking car, but one again spoilt by its drive and GM gear boxes. Interestingly enough, licence the car to ford, and what do they do? Make it drive properly - give it that bit of Italian verve in its driving it was missing.
If the marque was still passionate about the cars it was building I can understand why, however the company itself has no idea where it is going or what it's building Sergio seems to forget himself.
These comments of I would never buy another marque interest me. As I have said before, yes I have a ford, but do you know what? My model is actually nice looking, very well equipped, well built and amazing to drive - a family diesel estate car shouldn't not out perform or out handle a t jet but it does by a good mile whilst riding it out in comfort. And if I wanted to draw links? The engine in my car is used by Fiat in the Scudo - the blue tooth is the same as blue and me.
Years ago fiat did make very passionate cars that you brought with your heart because of how they drove, performed and looked. They we're let down by build and rot. Take fiat x/19 for example, the dino etc.