The lovely Stilo has moved up to 70 in Auto express ratings out this week.
This is up from 90 something last time.
Due to a campaign to get owners to vote.
70 is not that bad considering a lot of cars are not vetted due to a lack of response from owners.
One problem mentioned I totally disagree with is poor brakes.
I find mine are exceptional, and in one of the car mags not long back their test said "the brakes are nearly supercar standard"

crashbang said:

The lovely Stilo has moved up to 70 in Auto express ratings out this week.
This is up from 90 something last time.
Due to a campaign to get owners to vote.
70 is not that bad considering a lot of cars are not vetted due to a lack of response from owners.
One problem mentioned I totally disagree with is poor brakes.
I find mine are exceptional, and in one of the car mags not long back their test said "the brakes are nearly supercar standard"

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"Supercar standard" ?!

Someone's having a definite laugh there. I'd hardly rate the brakes in my Abarth as anything like that - they're OK, but not exceptional.

Indeed - I agree with Neil. Yes, they work, and I don't get much fade breaking hard from 100 or so BUT to call them exceptional? Granted, they have always stopped me quick enough, but 'supercar standard' implies stopping on a dime in an instance.

Brakes we're the biggest disappointment for me, however I did move from an Alfa GTV where I had uprated the brakes and fitted drilled/groved discs and uprated pads.

My brakes seem to have improved with age but I wouldn't say they were exceptional. Not driven a supercar but I'd **** myself if a 400bhp ferrari relied on brakes from the Stilo

Agreed, but hardly adequate is just wrong

Glad my vote helped out

cool i voted too... i have to say i think the brakes arent bad in the stilo at all, it also helps having the asr! actually compared to my punto 1.2; they are alot better! But they are no way near supacar standard!

Notice, the Stilo comes above quite a few of it's direct competitors including Alfa 147, Pug 307 and Astra (albeit the old model) and I think there was a couple more that I've forgotten now.

Thats good news then

Yeah it came above the old Golf and the existing Megane

My biggest grip with the JD power test is it tars all the range with the same brush! Asks what engine you've got and then gives you the average of the fuel consumption results!

As for the rest, seems about right! I personally view my 1.2 Stilo as more of a Polo competitor, its about the same power as the 1.4, better spec'd, quicker, more economic, bigger, cheaper and oh look 70 versus 88 for the Polo!

That 1.4 is terrible though...75bhp Its a slug

(Talking of the Polo, the Fabia which is based on it came 7th!!)

Hows the handling on the Stilo, it seemed to not score well

After a Rover 600 the Stilo is in a different class

Funny to see the MG ZS/45 so high up though!

According to todays auto express, Fiat dealers are the worst! Given my recent experiences I can't argue with that,

Can i just point out that Stilo was 69th in last years JD Power survey, so its actually dropped 1 place!

On that note Rover ZS/45 has jumped from a very low position up into the 20's.

Polo dropped from 77th to 88th!

JD power survey, whats that? I'm on about Auto express

JD Power survey IN Autoexpress! Its called Driver Power these days, but its the same thing.

My recent experiences of Fiat dealers have been very good.

When the Stilo was in at Perth last week with a nice long list of things to check the service technician actually rang me to go over everything on the list and I got a call to say when the car was ready and a follow up call to say when the new parts were in.

Dunfermline have also been pretty good in the recent past.

The rubbish one was Kirkcaldy but I stopped using them about 3 years ago.

I do not like the brakes at all. I find them rather soft, uncertain feeling and variable.
Soemtimes from 70mph I find it varies how much spnoge there'll be in the pedal.

My last but one car was a Suzuki Baleno Gsr and the brakes on that were exceptionally good - that thing could stop so hard you'd trouble keeping tongue in mouth.