Their Indian Punto

Thanks for the video

Interesting to hear that the Indian Punto gets hydraulic power sterring and not the usual Euro spec. It is also the only one in its class to do so.

hennabm said:

Interesting to hear that the Indian Punto gets hydraulic power sterring and not the usual Euro spec. It is also the only one in its class to do so.

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It "shocked" me as well, don't undestand why, don't see any advantage with hydraulic.

Mkala said:

It "shocked" me as well, don't undestand why, don't see any advantage with hydraulic.

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I can only assume it is more reliable and less troublesome than the Euro spec.

Note sure.

Yes fiat had trouble with electric steering at start, but now all is fine.

Hydraulic steering is not more reliable (pipes can breaks, pressure pump too), it need a little bit of maintenance and its 15 years back in time !

We'll the Indians may have had trouble with the electric steering,but it's a backwards step they have taken,could be cost cutting etc,by Fiat India ,as for our Punto,s we'll it's bye bye soon I think as we are merged into 500 l ,500 mpvl, 500 x, 500 vans,etc

Area Fiat and Alfa Romeo still teaming up with Mazda?

Electric steering has less feel than hydraulic - the only reason manufacturers us electric now is to save fuel.

Hydraulic steering is preferred than electric systems due to feel and weight.

puntofan01 said:

Area Fiat and Alfa Romeo still teaming up with Mazda?

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I really hope they are! I'm in love with Mazda's Hazumi concept, with the new Mazda 3 and planned Mazda 2 being serious good lookers. Combine that with a bit of Italian flare and you've got an absolute peach of a car.

Costcutting....
Alfa tried that before, with Datsun (Nissan) the ARNA was the (poor) result.
We all know what happened with that model...

The infamous Alfa Arna, guess what's the best part of this picture....

The Arna was a Datsun Cherry with the Alfasud boxer engine.
It looks ugly, and nobody wanted to buy the car, so it soon dissapeared...


If the new Mazda MX-5 will be rebadged Alfa Romeo, I wonder what will happen...
Real Alfista will not buy it for sure.

Peter Pick-Up said:

The Arna was a Datsun Cherry with the Alfasud boxer engine.
It looks ugly, and nobody wanted to buy the car, so it soon dissapeared...


If the new Mazda MX-5 will be rebadged Alfa Romeo, I wonder what will happen...
Real Alfista will not buy it for sure.

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It won't be badged an Alfa. It will be a Fiat as Alfa have now decided they don't want a model that's not built in Italy.

Build in Italy is perhaps important... but the most important is to build an Alfa with Alfa DNA, not to take another make and put a badge on (like they tried to do with Lancia)

Peter Pick-Up said:

The infamous Alfa Arna, guess what's the best part of this picture....

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The sea ? beautiful blue colour lol ,that brings back memories the Alfa Arna ,unreliable rot box ,a friend i knew had one

OK, the sea is blue as well....

rkt2003 said:

The sea ? beautiful blue colour lol ,that brings back memories the Alfa Arna ,unreliable rot box ,a friend i knew had one

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They were sold RHD as well..??

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Arna"]Alfa Romeo Arna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@<title>Alfa Romeo Arna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>@@AMEPARAM@@Alfa Romeo Arna[/ame]I`m thinking maybe of the Nissan Cherry Europe which was exactly the same car just about..