April 2017 has come and gone and twinair is still with us. Sad how people believe silly rumours.
Fiat has too many platforms that run FIRE and twinair to be able to just stop twinair production like that and move over to a new engine type when cars like the Punto are needing replacement, the Tipo has just come out, the 500 has just had a facelift.
I’ve been working for a car manufacturer in their engineering department for the last 8 months and let’s just say that the idea of fiat killing off the twinair and replacing it with the firefly engine across all models is sheer lunacy. The amount of work required to get performance, NVH and just basic functionality working is a huge amount of work.
We announced a new car at Frankfurt and it’s going to go into production at some point in the future, variants which differ in body configuration will launch at some point after that in the future and cars of different engine spec will also follow at some point in the future as well. I’m not going to mention timescales or anything as I quite like my job, but very few companies have the resources to pull off something like that and even BMW staggers their launches of products like the 3 series in terms of body shape and engine type.
If BMW can’t just move all production over to another type of engine at one point then Fiat aren’t going to manage it...