Vehicle
Fiat Strada
The compact pickup, and for years the best-selling vehicle of any kind in Brazil — a working vehicle first, which is the whole diagnostic context. Loads, dust and ethanol fuel together mean fuel-system contamination and sensor fouling come before control-module faults in any sensible order of suspicion. The first generation is Palio-based; the 2020 car moves to the modern Argo platform with the Firefly engines and considerably more electronics.
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Generations
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178 1998–2020
Palio-based and mechanically austere — a working pickup where contamination and fouling outrank electronics as suspects.
- Body styles
- Pickup
- Platform
- Fiat 178
- Engines
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- 1.4 flex — FIRE · petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.6 flex — E.TORQ · petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.8 flex — E.TORQ · petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.3 Multijet — diesel
- 1.2 — petrol
- 1.3 — petrol
- 1.5 — petrol
- 1.7 turbo — diesel
- 1.9 — diesel
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · 7-speed CVT
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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281 2020–present
The Argo platform with Firefly engines and a full CAN architecture — a considerably more networked working vehicle.
- Body styles
- Pickup
- Platform
- Fiat MP1
- Engines
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- 1.3 flex — FIREFLY · petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.0 flex — FIREFLY · petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.0 turbo — T200 · petrol
- 1.4 — petrol
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · 6-speed automatic · CVT
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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