Why punto called punto?

[serin]

Croma means Chrome (hence the shiney door handles )

 

[PuntoSaz]

This is all really interesting!!

What about Stilo?

 

[Luciel]

Stilo = Estilo (spanish) = Style

 

[roby76it]

Yep you are driving a Fiat Type!

As for some others

Barchetta - Small Boat (think most people know that one)
Tempra - Hardening
Multipla - Multiple (of 3? i.e. the 2 rows of 3 seats?)
Seicento - The 1600's
Cinquecento - The 1500's
Newly announced Sedici - Sixteen
Palio - Racing Silk
Strada - Road

Seicento - derived from 600, an old Fiat model....

Cinquecento derived from 500...

Newly announced Sedici - Sixteen

Right! But why?........ it will be the new Fiat off-road, 4x4 = 16

Palio - Racing Silk I dont know what is a racing silk, but the name derives from "Palio di Siena":

that is won by the first of this horse race... an historical event that you can see in Siena twice in a year...

the 3 volumes version of Fiat Palio is called: Fiat Siena!

Multipla - Multiple (of 3? i.e. the 2 rows of 3 seats?)

There was a "van" version of old Fiat 600, called Fiat 600 Multipla...

Fiat Marea - Fiat tide