Vehicle
Fiat Palio
Fiat's world car for emerging markets, built for twenty years across South America, India, Turkey and South Africa — so a Palio's origin decides which engines and which emissions equipment it has. The estate is the Weekend and the saloon the Siena, and all three share mechanicals. Like the Uno, most South American examples are flex-fuel, which widens the normal range of fuel-trim adaptation and changes what a lean or rich code is worth on its own.
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Generations
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178 1996–2017
One platform across four continents for twenty years; the market a car came from decides its engine and its emissions equipment.
- Body styles
- Hatchback · Estate · Sedan
- Platform
- Fiat 178
- Engines
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- 1.0 flex — FIRE · petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.4 flex — FIRE · petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.6 16v — petrol
- 1.8 E.torQ flex — X18XE · petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.3 Multijet — diesel
- 1.7 diesel — diesel
- 1.1 — petrol
- 1.2 — petrol
- 1.3 — petrol
- 1.5 — petrol
- 1.9 — diesel
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · Dualogic robotised manual · 5-speed Dualogic automated manual
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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