Fiat India’s Ranjangaon facility to go in full steam with Maruti Suzuki’s Multijet diesel engine order!
Fiat India will begin utilizing the full capacity of its Ranjangaon plant over the next few months as its begins implementing Maruti Suzuki’s 1.3 Liter Fiat Multijet engine supply. Fiat India will supply 1 lakh Multijet engines each year to the country’s largest automaker Maruti Suzuki for the next three years. Fiat’s Ranjangaon plant is equipped to produce 350,000 engines each year along with 100,000 cars each year. Fiat produced 18,000 cars in India during 2011 and is expecting to grow this number by about 10%, to 20,000 units in 2012.
2012 Fiat Linea T-Jet Turbopetrol Sedan
2013 Fiat Linea sedan facelift spyshots surface!
Fiat India has just refreshed the Linea sedan and Grande Punto hatchback a month ago and the facelifted models are currently on sale at all Tata-Fiat dealerships in India. Over the next 12 months, Fiat will concentrate on establishing standalone fiat dealerships, which we believe is the only way Fiat can truly realize the sales potential of the Linea and Grande Punto, both very capable cars whose sales charts simply don’t reflect their real worth. Meanwhile, spy shots of the 2013 version of the Linea sedan have just surfaced. With Fiat India just launching the facelifted Linea, the new model might take a year or so to come to India.
2013 Fiat Linea Facelift Sedan
Fiat may bring in Jeep and Chrysler cars to India!
Italian automaker Fiat now owns American car brand Chrysler and its assorted sub brands like Dodge and Jeep. Globally Fiat is a huge brand purveying labels like Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Maserati apart from its own brand of cars. In India though, the story is a lot different with Fiat being a fringe player of sorts, supplying more engines to a whole lot of Indian car makers than selling its cars. Now, there’s a new report emerging that Fiat will want to expand its footprint in India by bringing some of its better known brands to the country.
2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Deal sealed; Fiat to supply 100,000 Multijet diesel engines to Maruti Suzuki! EDIT: 100,000 engines each year for 3 years!
After months of talk about Fiat supplying 1 lakh 1.3 Liter Multijet diesel engines to Maruti Suzuki, the deal has been signed. This supply will happen over a period of the next three years(EDIT: 100,000 engines per year for 3 years making it 300,000 engines). The 1,248cc four cylinder Multijet diesel engine that will be supplied to Maruti Suzuki will have a power output of 75 Bhp and a torque output of 190 Nm. This engine will feature a fixed geometry turbocharger. The strong points of the Fiat Multijet engine are its punchy performance, good reliability and high fuel economy, both factors which have given Maruti Suzuki diesel cars a huge competitive advantage.
Fiat Multijet 1.3 liter TurboDiesel Engine
The brand builder Fiat Caffe is up and running at Janpath, New Delhi!
Italian car brand Fiat is optimistic about its Indian prospects even though the sales figures indicate otherwise. In its second coming to India, Fiat’s alliance with Tata Motors to use the latter’s dealerships to sell its cars has come a cropper, resulting in Fiat all set to embark upon standalone Fiat dealerships across India. To supplement this move and rebuild the Fiat brand in India, the firm has come up with a novel concept of setting up Fiat branded cafes which will showcase Fiat products and also sell Fiat merchandise apart from being a place for Fiat fans to gather and socialize.
Fiat Caffe at Janpath, New Delhi
Fiat Caffe website goes live and loud!
Fiat India is planning its resurgence in the Indian car market beginning with this brand building move, the Fiat Caffe. The Fiat Caffe will be a coffee place revolving around the theme of Brand Fiat and the cars of the brand. Ahead of its inauguration in January 2012, the Fiat Caffe website has gone live on the interweb. Initially, two Fiat Caffes at Pune and Delhi will be functional after which Fiat may decide to add this concept to other cities if this model proves to be successful enough.
Fiat Caffe
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