Ford have been working on small city cars for years,mostly battery powered so I think its strange they are doing cars with Fiat?
Would be interesting to see how this developes.
Would be interesting to see how this developes.
JTD Monkey said:Ford currently use the PSA (Peugeot Citroen) 'HDi' engines (1.4, 1.6 and 2.0) and re-badge them as TDCi
In the future they might use the m-jet engines but there is nothing wrong with that.
Fiat might use the smaller Yamaha developed Zetec SE engines from the Fester (1.25 and 1.4) in it's smaller cars, which would be no bad thing as they are brilliant motors.
The Negotiator said:HEre is a question, the engines in the renault traffics/Vauxhall whatever, are they Renault dcis or 'vauxhall' (aka Fiat) jtds? I suppose I could go compare the ccs, will do if nobody knows the answer
Scorg said:Although they offer similer econ to the Super fire 1.2 (80bhp) and 1.4 (95bhp) they are down on power (in the fiesta it shows as 75bhp on the 1.25 and 80bhp on the 1.4)., so it would probably be a better idea to stick with the Fiat power units as the 1.2 16v to me anyway is better then the ford unit and the 1.4 definetly is more powerful and alot newer.
JTD Monkey said:Fiat might use the smaller Yamaha developed Zetec SE engines from the Fester (1.25 and 1.4) in it's smaller cars, which would be no bad thing as they are brilliant motors.
I bet it is more expensive and will still outsell the Fiat equivalent by 10 to 1 in the UK. People are idiots...
Steve said:Oh yes, don't get me wrong, this sounds like a fantastic deal for Fiat, but do you see my point? Place a Ford badged Fiat and a Fiat badged Fiat side by side and what will 90% of the UK pick?