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Mini and Fiat named top environmental performers

Mini and Fiat have been found to be the cleanest car manufacturers in a league table which provides the first comprehensive analysis of overall emission performance rather than just focusing on CO2 emissions. Producing by website, Clean Green Cars, the league table analyses the carmakers’ performances across three environmental factors; CO2 emissions, NOx emissions and [...]

Fiat’s eco-Drive system wins top fleet award

Fiat has added to its environmental accolades with a new award announced for its eco:Drive fuel-saving technology. The drive system – this time in eco:Drive Fleet form scooped the Green Development prize in the BusinessCar Techies 2010, announced yesterday by BusinessCar magazine. The judging panel’s attention was particularly drawn to eco:Drive Fleet’s potential fuel savings [...]

Chrysler to look for new battery supplier

The Fiat 500 electric vehicle project, seen as a crucial part of Chrysler’s revival, has hit a stumbling block with the car manufacturer losing its battery supplier. According to reports in the Detroit Free Press, A123 Systems has withdrawn from the project after reporting a second quarter loss of $34.2million – an increase from its [...]

Fiat 500 TwinAir 85hp road test

The Fiat 500 of 1957 was an affordable and practical city runabout originally powered by a half-litre, 2-cyl engine. Fifty-three years on, the latest addition to the current 500 range pays homage to that car by also having just two cylinders, but the new TwinAir engine hasn’t come about for sentimental reasons, but for the [...]

Fiat introduces new engine in Fiat 500

After previewing a two-cylinder TwinAir engine at Geneva earlier this year, Fiat has now debuted the engine in the Fiat 500. The petrol-fuelled 85hp, 900cc turbo two-cylinder includes a small-sized turbine that helps to minimise transient response times while keeping maximum power levels high. Thanks to a start and stop facility as standard, the engine [...]

Fiat scoops best new engine award

“The single most innovative engine technology to appear in the last 12 months” – that was the rousing proclamation of the Fiat 1.4l Multiair Turbo, which has scooped the title of Best New Engine of 2010. Part of the International Engine of the Year Awards, the engine was selected thanks in part to its electrohydraulic [...]

Fiat Panda is the most economical vehicle

A new test carried out by the German Automobilclub (ADAC) has named the Fiat Panda Natural Power vehicle as the most economical vehicle of all. The car placed first in a test of 241 vehicles in various categories with different fuel systems. The test examined how far each vehicle – from small two-seaters to sporting [...]

Fiat leads race to slash emissions

While new car’s are slashing emissions across the board, Fiat is leading the way, the latest industry analysis reveals. According to data from automotive research experts, JATO Dynamics, the Fiat brand and Fiat Group posted Europe’s lowest volume weighted CO2 emissions in 2009. The carmaker logged a CO2 average of just 127.8 g/km, compared with [...]

Fiat to introduce fleet version of eco:drive

Fiat’s eco:drive system has proven a big hit, and now the data collection and transmission system will be made available to fleet drivers. Fiat is introducing eco:drive fleet to help companies gather vehicle efficiency data and analyse car performance. It suggests that it can help save as much as 15 per cent on fuel consumption [...]

Fiat 500 boosts power and slashes emissions

Fiat’s massively popular 500 model is to slash its emissions while boosting its power and performance creating a win-win situation for its drivers. The 500 range will gain a new 1.3-litre 16-valve MultiJet diesel engine. Its out-going 75bhp MultiJet unit is being replaced with a more potent but also more environmentally-friendly 95bhp ‘MultiJet II’ version. [...]