By: Jack Wylde
Submitted: 2009-12-31 11:52:23 | Word Count: 506
Before getting into details about new cars of fiat in last decade I would like to discuss about the history of Fiat and how its business grew in brief. In the year 1899 Fiat was established by few investors of Italy. Mainly focused on car, agricultural and industrial vehicle production it started its business. After few decades it progressed at a very fast rate and now they are the largest concern of Italy among all industries. Now it has branches of more than 1000 companies spread across 60 countries. It gives employment to over 2, 50,000 people around the world. Its main operation outside Italy is in Brazil, India, Argentina, Poland, Siberia, Russia, North Korea and Srilanka. Fiat has entered into joint venture with Tata of India and is called FIAPL To specially suit for Indian market Premier Padmini was launched.
Fiat has manufactured many cars under this joint venture to specially suit for Indian roads and Indian weather conditions. In the year 2009 Fiat Linea , Bravo & Fiat Punto came to market and sales of these cars are continuing to be good. Fiat has now entered into communication, aviation, metallurgical and Information technology sector also in the past few years. Fiat Bravo replaced Fiat Tipu. Both belong to a family of cars in the small segment range. It was succeeded by Fiat Stilo. The radio dash kits for Bravo and Marea are the same. The radio dash kit comprises of panel of fascia type, removal keys and adaptors (both harness and aerial). It is highly suited for Fiat models between 1995 and 2001. These adaptors help in the conversion to din sized unit.
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The plate color comes in black. Let’s learn the functions of components of kit. Wiring harness enables installation of stereo without cutting wires. Aerial adaptor is needed to change to a head unit replacing factory head unit. To remove ISO radios we use removal keys. Codes to radio are needed especially for Fiat which can be searched and purchased online like powernetshop.at .In the year 1996 Fiat Marea was launched. It replaced Fiat tempera. It was manufactured in Turkey, Brazil and Italy.
The engine type was similar to Bravo. Few of the remarkable features of this Marea was that it can be fueled by natural gas also(compressed) and also its fuel injection was such that the retention capacity of the engine was very good in expensive models of Marea. Fiat Stilo replaced Brava. It passed the safety tests of European standards. Its engine power was high up to 170 hp. The hatchback came in both 5 doors and 3 doors.
Though this model was replaced by Bravo its production and sales still continues in Brazil. It did not fare well in sales. One of most successful models in last decade is Fiat Punto. It became highly popular mainly because its spare parts and components are available everywhere. Its compact size, high speed and less cost has made this model favorite for many racers. It has also started manufacturing vans which are equally compact and popular and is known as Punto van.
