Fiat Punto Evo bows, looks great
You never unequivocally deliberate ourselves a Fiat Punto kind, though a 2010 Evo various strikes the chord, and for the little man it comes with the lot of kit. A Blue&Me interface will be accessible on all trim levels, onconditionthat control of all the car’s vital functions, along with the mobile phone, MP3 player as well as touch-screen navigation. Upon tip of which will be sleet sensors, ESP with Hill Hilt, engine start-stop as well as adaptive cornering haze lights.
There will be dual framework options: Grande Punto as well as Sporting, that both come with the “competition framework” as well as “more noisy looks;” as well as Joy. There have been 5 engines to select from: 4 of a firm’s brandnew MultiAir, as well as MultiJet II diesel motor fuel models, from the 1.3-liter, 75-horsepower MultiJet to 1.4-liter, 135-hp MultiAir turbo, as well as the vanilla 1.4-liter, 77-hp gas various. THE sixth engine preference, a 1.6-liter MultiJet with 120 hp, comes in Oct.
We could discussit we some-more about it though Fiat has courteously stoical the textbook-length press recover upon a car. You’ll find it after a burst, as well as lots of flattering cinema in a high-res art studio next.
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[Source: Fiat]Show full PR textNEW FIAT PUNTO EVO – EXPANSION OF THE CLASS
Consider tiny cars as well as the fibre of super-successful Fiats should spring to thoughts: the ground-breaking 600, a trend-setting 127, the innovative Uno, as well as on-going Punto.
A Fiat 127, initial of a ’superminis’, was voted Car of a Year 1972 as well as was unfailing to turn Europe’s best-selling automobile, continuing in prolongation until the key of a Fiat Uno in 1983, by that time the sum of 5.6 million had been built.
Compared with the 127, a Uno was alittle 6cm shorter as well as the identical amount taller. Voted Automobile of the Year 1984, it was additionally unfailing to be Europe’s best-seller, with no reduction than 2.5 million sole in just 4 years, and a sum prolongation run of some-more than 6 million.
The inheritor, a Punto, was an additional Automobile of the Year leader, in 1995, as well as more than 7 million would be constructed worldwide, including over 650,000 sole in a UK. In Grande Punto guise it is still Europe’s fifth best-selling automobile.
Rightaway a brandnew Punto Evo is set to setup upon a strengths of the illustrious predecessors as well as move a diversion upon with the host of innovations.
To support for business who have been some-more demanding than ever, a Punto Evo has been written to encounter a requirement for notasbig, some-more environmentally accessible cars which have been simpler to playground as well as some-more affordable to run, nonetheless still invogue, protected, comfortable and fun to expostulate. Fiat has managed this by mixing ground-breaking brandnew engines with the fullofhealth sip of record as well as facilities traditionally compared with incomparable cars.
As the energetic growth of a renouned Grande Punto, a Punto Evo has the confidant brandnew demeanour inside as well as out, cloaking the stronger makeup which creates it safer, better to expostulate as well as some-more welcoming for passengers. As well as it incorporates most modernized reserve facilities to serve enhance a tenure knowledge, togetherwith knee airbags, dual seatbelt pre-tensioners as well as ESP with mountain holder.
This is typical of the tall specification levels which owners of a Punto Evo will enjoy. In line with Fiat’s truth of technology-for-all, each indication in a range is propitious with a firm’s Blue&Me interface which allows drivers discerning control of all a car’s vital functions. As well as all models, solely Active, can be specified with a slicing corner Blue&Me TomTom complement.
This equatesto fingertip entrance to the touch-screen navigation complement, mobile phone, outing mechanism as well as MP3 player with steering circle commands. It additionally includes Fiat’s ground-breaking eco:Drive that helps owners reduce their fuel expenditure as well as exhaust emissions. For a initial time, eco:Drive is the entirely integrated complement in Punto Evo, as well as customers can rightaway embrace real-time suggestions for some-more environmentally accessible motoring.
Though this car’s launch is done quite notable since it heralds a unleashing of dual critical brandnew ‘Ecotechnology’ engine line-ups, a MultiAir petrol family as well as MultiJet II diesels.
A Punto Evo’s operation of 5 engines all heed to Euro 5 emissions mandate as well as have been all propitious with Start&Stop record as customary. Though softened fuel expenditure isn’t a usually approach in that Punto Evo owners will good from the innovative engines. Low CO2 emissions meant business will also compensate low levels of Vehicle Dig Avocation Automobile Taxation – only ?35 in a box of a new Punto Evo MultiJet operation.
Yesorno engine business choose, they’ll have dual dissimilar chassis philosophies as well as 5 trim levels to counsel over. All a GP as well as to one side three-door Sporting versions follow a Competition framework truth with risque on-road poise as well as some-more assertive looks. 3 or five-door Joy versions come in possibly Active, Dynamic or Eleganza trims with the some-more superb demeanour as well as feel to them.
Even a entrance turn Active indication facilities the inexhaustible volume of customary apparatus including front motorist, newcomer as well as driver’s knee airbag, 5 standard-size seats, dual back conduct restraints, front electric windows, tallness as well as strech tractable steering circle, electric mirrors, as well as Blue&Me infotainment. Owners can additionally choose from an extensive options list, as well as with a sum of 22 versions to name from during launch, The 1.6 16v MultiJet 120bhp chronicle joins a operation in Oct, business will find copiousness to seductiveness them in a brandnew Punto Evo operation.
Small-car costs; big-car joy
A Punto Evo has been recognised to cosset the occupants as the incomparable automobile competence. This has been completed by the crafty multiple of factors.
Many noticeably a car’s interior pattern has been almost reworked. Tough angles have been deserted as well as transposed with softer, curvier lines which appear plush as well as superb, giving the cosier, some-more gentle ambience.
Work by Fiat’s famous Centro Stile Character Centre) has strong upon anticipating as well as wise materials that don’t just demeanour great, though feel great aswell. And the inadvance redesign inside has halved a distance of the centre console. During a tip of this rightaway sits the recess where the unstable Blue&Me TomTom section is situated just on top of a air vents (not upon Active). THE grand piano black panel surrounds a receptivetoadvice system’s LCD arrangement as well as includes buttons for functions such as a executive locking set into it.
Next this, some versions have the diffused ambient light source that can be switched upon during night to wash a interior in the mellow shade, creation pushing in a dim a genuine eventuality. Underneath this is the apart console to house a movement controls.
The instruments underline incomparable dials for a speedometer as well as rev opposite, as well as these lay insideof the brandnew cover which shades them from splendid light. A instrument row facilities the rigging change indicator (GSI), that advises drivers when to shift to the aloft or reduce rigging, depending upon conditions, as well as the Genuine time’ denote of expenditure.
Seats aswell have been redesigned to urge them ergonomically as well as the new operation of innovative materials have been being used upon these as well as a doorway panels to safeguard a Punto Evo feels positively contemporary.
This tall tech proceed is entirely in gripping with a ultimate era Blue&Me TomTom which any Punto Evo, solely Active, can be specified with. Notwithstanding being cheaper to fit than rivals’ systems, this in-car interface is more versatile as well as user accessible. It is elementary to make use of, charity easy access to report.
With Blue&Me TomTom in actuality, the completely integrated infotainment system is combined that allows for a government, around a complicated colour touch-screen, of write, navigation as well as all a report required for pushing. Interjection to dashboard sustenance, government around steering circle controls as well as voice instructions, it is probable to ensure limit reserve when driving. This brandnew complement will additionally supply drivers with report in genuine time connected with a environmental stroke of their own pushing character, as well as will indicate how to undiluted it by scold doing of rigging changes as well as make use of of a accelerator pedal.
Featuring the 4.3-inch high-resolution hold shade, a unstable section links to a car around an integrated connector upon a lurch, definition which there have been no trailing cables or wires. Mobile phone, receptivetoadvice complement, outing mechanism as well as navigation have been all controlled around a shade. As it can guard trade conditions, a navigation complement picks a most available route. A unit additionally employs Bluetooth and modernized voice approval to concede we to control all functions possibly from a steering circle or with your voice. This entirely unstable shade can be private from a automobile as well as used in any alternative car, with suction pads to reason it in place.
Blue&Me TomTom works in and with Fiat’s incredibly renouned eco:Drive software. Downloading this from a Fiat website enables owners to make use of a in-car USB pier to send information about their pushing to the PERSONALCOMPUTER. They can afterwards request an comment of their skills during the circle, review themselves with others as well as swell by the array of tutorials to have their pushing character some-more environmentally receptivetoadvice.
Interjection to Blue&Me TomTom, however, eco:Drive information as well as suggestions about shortening a environmental impact of driving rightaway crop up in real-time upon a in-car shade. As well as should a fuel haven notice light come on, directions to a nearest stuffing hire can be rughtaway requested. This is a sort of resolution to motoring con that a Punto Evo has been written to suggest.
Though in-cabin record isn’t the usually apparatus Fiat has used to have a Punto Evo’s cockpit an beguiling place to be. Engineers have additionally been tough during work on a car’s constructional characteristics. Acerbity has been softened as well as brandnew stretchable cessation bushings, optimised to suit a brandnew engines, have been exploited to revoke sound as well as vibrations transmitted from a highway aspect.
New soundproof rooftiles panelling has additionally been in use with thermo-expandable panels to revoke driving sound. Diesel motor fuel models make use of the laminated PVB windscreen as well as have an engine cover. A altogether outcome is the poignant rebate of in-car sound, whilst these alterations have additionally softened a tinge as well as peculiarity of a engine’s receptivetoadvice to a outward universe.
Expostulate a Expansion
As good as being the bearing of a promotion debate for a Punto Evo, ‘Drive a Expansion’ sums up how a wholly revised or brandnew engine line-up will propel Fiat into an ever some-more environmentally accessible destiny.
A Punto Evo heralds the launch of dual all-new engine ranges, a motor-fuel MultiAir, as well as MultiJet II diesel motor fuel models. Upon top of this, all versions feature Start&Stop where a engine shuts down instead of waiting when a automobile is during the delay, though bursts behind into holdup when you need to get underway again.
A operation starter is a 1.4-litre 8 valve 77bhp engine that, similarto each alternative engine in a 22-strong range, rightaway complies with Euro 5 empty emissions legislation. A alternative motor-fuel units underline Fiat Powertrain Technologies’ unique as well as ground-breaking MultiAir imagination – the technological jump brazen which is to be rolled out opposite a company’s complete swift of models.
MultiAir
In conventional explosion engines, air assign by a intake valve is tranquil by a revolution of the camshaft around the simple stifle. A categorical disadvantages of this system have been the rubbish of appetite and the delayed composition to a invariably becoming different demands of incompatible pushing conditions.
MultiAir is Fiat’s brandnew electronic complement for energetic control of air intake, cylinder by cylinder, cadence by cadence. This electro-hydraulic valve actuation record is based upon a make use of of the tall vigour oil cover in between a camshaft and a intake valve, managed by the solenoid valve continuous to an ECU. This way, valve lift schedules turn intensely stretchable as well as change precisely as well as rughtaway according to engine air mandate.
Assorted factors have been used to optimise explosion potency, with conspicuous benefits in conditions of power, torque, fuel expenditure as well as emissions. Finish valve opening, or full lift – a stream mode of required engines – is used by MultiAir usually when full engine energy is compulsory. During engine start-up, and when waiting, late intake valve opening determines the aloft air speed intake, thereby optimising a reduction shaped, as well as its explosion.
At middle to low RPM, assuage torque final as well as prejudiced engine bucket, early intake valve shutting optimises volume potency as well as reduces pumping waste. Undesired backflow into a plural is avoided, as well as air mass trapped in a cylinder optimised. Mixed valve opening, or multi-lift, during low engine speeds or from resting, allows for an optimisation of explosion control.
Euro 5 agreeable (and Euro 6 ready; easy begin characteristics; electronic management; low fuel expenditure; the tall fun-to-drive quotient; evident energetic reply; limit opening… these are alittle of a countless advantages of MultiAir, interjection to electronic control which adjusts air intake parameters precisely according to highway conditions and pushing mode.
During cold starts, a MultiAir complement optimises air intake formed upon the outmost heat, with engine start-up ontrial in any conditions. Reduce fuel expenditure and some-more loose pushing in heavy traffic have been one more benefits of MultiAir record. Downright pushing tests have regularly shown transparent advantages in conditions of aloft torque as well as power, associated to the particularly higher pushing experience as well as vastly softened engine energetic reply.
In outline, MultiAir optimises engine intake air over a complete RPM operation, with an indirect rebate in fuel expenditure by an normal 10 per cent, thanks to a thespian rebate of pumping waste as well as a expect grading of a parameters that undiluted explosion.
MultiAir additionally provides for an average 10 per cent rebate in CO2 emissions; 10 per cent energy increase; as well as 15 per cent torque alleviation.
During a same time, poisonous emissions are dramatically markeddown, (40 per cent of HC/CO as well as 60 per cent of NOX), in the engine warm-up proviso interjection to a perfecting of vital valve control during a engine inlet proviso, as well as inner empty recycling performed by reopening a estuary valve during a empty proviso.
MultiAir record is a result of distinguished investigate efforts by Fiat Powertrain Technologies – an accurate creation for all inner explosion engines.
What this equatesto is that a 105bhp 1.4-litre MultiAir section in a brandnew Punto Evo emits only 134g/km of co dioxide along with 49.5mpg (Combined Cycle) fuel saving, nonetheless offers sharp-witted opening as well as a 0-62mph increase in speed time of only 10.8 seconds.
A range-topping 135bhp 1.4-litre MultiAir Turbo is even some-more considerable. With roughly 100bhp per litre during a driver’s authority, this delivers the motor-fuel engine benchmark for increase in speed with a 0-62mph time of 8.5 seconds, nonetheless additionally offers total cycle fuel expenditure of a conspicuous 50.4mpg as well as a CO2 figure of only 129g/km.
MultiJet II
Fiat has the unapproachable story of heading a universe when it comes to diesel motor fuel energy. Fiat was initial with the approach injection diesel in the production tavern car in a 1980s, as well as in a 1990s there was Usual Rail – the Fiat invention. Afterwards in 2003, Fiat’s MultiJet was a initial to urge a thermodynamic potency of the engine by introducing five injections during a same explosion cycle. Rightaway, for the ultimate era of cars as well as light vans, Fiat has further improved a 1.3 MultiJet, as well as Punto Evo is a undiluted showcase.
Interjection to the brandnew offset solenoid servo valve, MultiJet II is means to control with tall pointing, the apportion of fuel injected into a cylinder, with the quicker as well as more stretchable injection method. In actuality, a new MultiJet II complement can conduct 8 injections per cycle.
It additionally offers aloft coherence in handling mixed injections, ensuing in serve optimisation of diesel explosion. In sold it has the brandnew injection modality called Injection Rate Moulding (IRS) that consists of dual uninterrupted injections with zero hydraulic dwell. This has the certain outcome upon explosion during higher loads, permitting for softened trade-off in conditions of emissions, fuel expenditure as well as sound.
It all equatesto which a second generation 1.3-litre MultiJet provides a motorist with an engine which complies with Euro 5 emissions legislation, nonetheless in 95bhp form gives Punto Evo the 0-62mph increase in speed time of 11.7 seconds whilst returning 67.3mpg Total cycle) as well as emitting only 110g/km of CO2. When combined with Fiat’s Dualogic gearbox, expenditure is increased to 68.9mpg as well as emissions tumble serve, to 107g/km.
MultiJet II is additionally accessible as a 75bhp section as well as, similarto a aloft energy chronicle, is Euro 5-compatible, comes with Start&Stop and facilities the Diesel motor fuel Particulate Filter. These engines additionally occupy second era turbochargers (with non-static vane geometry in a some-more absolute version) which, along with a MultiJet II injection complement, ensure the most appropriate probable turbo duty during any engine handling turn. A large value they have over a outgoing Euro 4 engines is which torque delivery at low revs can be up to 25 per cent larger.
Depending upon a engine there’s the preference of 5 or six-speed primer gearboxes, or the Dualogic robotised consecutive change that has been optimised for manoeuvrability as well as low noise levels. As well as it creates a Punto Evo a usually automobile among the peers to underline an involuntary gearbox alongside Start&Stop.
Full of high-tech ideas
Punto Evo is an expansion of a rarely successful Grande Punto, as well as as such facilities the horde of sparkling as well as innovative apparatus which not usually builds upon a birthright of a prior Punto family, though moves this brandnew indication upon the theatre serve.
A most ideas introduced to a Punto Evo spin this brandnew car’s expansion into something of an electronic series. They embody:
Sensors:
Sleet: An infrared LED installed on the front shade of a automobile senses a participation of sleet as well as operates the windscreen wipers, depending upon how most h2o is benefaction upon a window.
Parking: Punto Evo’s parking assist system provides drivers with report upon a stretch from obstacles behind a car, as well as outward their margin of prophesy, when reversing.
ESP with Mountain Hilt:
Punto Evo is the usually B segment automobile with this underline. A complement combines report picked up by sensors from a pedal house, rigging change and engine control centre, as well as reserve a braking torque required to keep a automobile during the delay upon the slant until a driver releases a purchase to pierce off.
Navigation as well as Infotainment:
Fingertip access to navigation as well as infotainment: Interjection to dashboard sustenance, government around steering wheel controls and voice instructions, it is probable to safeguard limit safety when pushing. This new complement will also supply drivers with report in genuine time connected with a environmental stroke of their own pushing character, as well as will indicate how to undiluted it through scold handling of rigging changes as well as accelerator pedal.
Start&Stop:
Written specially for civic or undiluted track make use of, a Start&Stop complement automatically turns off the engine when trade conditions levy interlude a vehicle: a rigging lever only has to be placed in neutral when a automobile is during the delay as well as the engine stops, whilst ensuring a delay of normal functions that pledge on-board joy as well as reserve, such as, for e.g., use of a meridian control complement, listening to the airwave as well as windscreen wiper operation. As shortly as a motorist operates a purchase pedal to rivet the rigging, a engine restarts rughtaway.
Lighting:
Adaptive cornering foglights, line shift notice, daytime using lights as well as ‘Follow Me Home’ lighting have been all facilities enclosed in new Punto Evo.
MultiAir and MultiJet record:
A operation of Punto Evo engines includes both Fiat’s MultiAir petrol and second era MultiJet II diesel motor fuel engines. All energy plants adopted by Punto Evo have been combined for a right change in between expectations of opening, fuel expenditure, low emissions, as well as joy.
eco:Drive:
Fiat’s innovative eco:Drive system for monitoring a driver’s character as well as environmental stroke, is accessible ‘real-time’ for a initial time in the Fiat automobile, so that drivers can check their eco:Drive rating whilst on the pierce.
No sacrifices over reserve or character
As with each Fiat, the priority with a Punto Evo is to provide insurance for all a family. As customary, each version comes with driver as well as newcomer airbags, together with front and back tractable conduct restraints as well as it’s asingle of a few cars in the category to feature the driver’s knee airbag during no additional price.
Additionally singular for the automobile of this distance are a discretionary adaptive front haze lights that switch upon automatically, left or right, to irradiate a apexes of bends when negotiating low speed corners. This underline is activated underneath 40km/h (28mph). In addition, Punto Evo facilities Daytime Using Lights (DRL). These front headlights have been not written to light a highway though to make the automobile some-more manifest. They make use of special bulbs with reduce energy than those in dipped lamp headlights, as well as have been switched upon automatically by a ‘key-in’ from a dashboard. Using them does not revoke the resplendence of a dashboard orchestration which thus stays obviously manifest.
A front haze lights have been additionally used for an additional Punto Evo reserve feature – line shift notice. When indicating to move from asingle line to an additional, a suitable fog light flashes once at the same time as a initial indicator Wink’. This underline creates a automobile even some-more manifest to other trade during this potentially dangerous manoeuvre. All-new back lights pledge which a automobile is some-more manifest to alternative highway users at night.
Upon a highway there is a absolute as well as in effect braking system supplemented by a latest electronic energetic control systems. So there’s ABS anti-lock braking with Electronic Brakeforce Placement (EBD) as well as Electronic Fortitude Module (ESP) with Mountain Holder to support with starting off upon a slant. The Punto Evo is a usually automobile in the category to have this latter underline available opposite a entire operation.
In further to these innovations, there have been assorted options directed during creation pushing reduction overpowering, such as climate control, sleet intuiting windscreen wipers and journey control.
A Punto Evo proves which only since the automobile is protected, business shouldn’t have to scrimp upon character. Hence there have been poignant changes to a extraneous such as a new front fender as well as radiator grille styles that enclose the citation indicators as well as adaptive cornering haze lights.
During the back there’s the brandnew fender to soakup a number image, those particular back lights, as well as a centrally-placed Fiat trademark which doubles as the foot recover. A new bodywork stretches a Punto Evo by 3cm to 406cm, nonetheless other measure of breadth, tallness as well as wheelbase sojourn a same as a Grande Punto.
There have been additionally subtle pointers to have specifying in between dissimilar models in the operation simpler. Sport versions have the hexagonal filigree grille and dark line with an embedded Fiat trademark. Joy models underline the linear-style grille as well as chrome-coloured line. Headlights are framed dark for Competition models, in chrome for Comfort. As well as a trademark upon a tailgate changes according to a indication. A Punto Evo’s dot is red for the tall opening 135bhp motor-fuel, as well as black for alternative engine types. It’s the neat hold which encapsulates a courtesy to item, suspicion as well as engineering know-how that has left into producing a brandnew Fiat Punto Evo.
