Sadly, Australian Fiat importer advises that while the new-look Punto range will go on sale here in the third quarter of 2010, the new MultiAir engine and both new alternative-fuel engines are unlikely to come due to their considerably higher cost.
“We can’t commit to the MultiAir engine for our Punto until we’ve seen pricing, which won’t happen until next April,” said spokesman Edward Rowe. “We suspect we’ll continue to take the current base (1.4) engine to maintain the current price point for as long as it is available.
“The MultiAir engines and other high-efficiency engines are built to meet Europe’s CO2-based taxation system. Australia is now the last mature market in the world not to have a vehicle tax based on fuel-efficiency.”
Fiat’s current Punto range in Australia opens with the 1.4 Dynamic five-door ($18,990) and extends to the 1.3 JTD ($23,990) and 1.4 Sport Turbo ($26,990), plus the three-door 1.4 Sport Turbo ($24,990).
Opening Europe’s Punto Evo range, however, will be an entry-level version of the premium 1.4 MultiAir four that will become available here earlier in 2010 in Alfa Romeo’s new Punto-based MiTo.
Fiat says its new MultiAir electro-hydraulic valve control system, developed by Fiat Powertrain technologies, will eventually be fitted across the Fiat Group’s entire petrol and diesel engine range. Like Unijet and Multijet, MultiAir is licensed to Bosch to make for a host of other car-makers, so expect similar induction systems to appear in a host of other vehicles soon.
Compared with a conventional engine of the same displacement, it is claimed to cut fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by around 10 per cent – as well as particulate emissions by up to 40 per cent and NOx emissions by up to 60 per cent – while increasing power by up to 10 per cent and torque by up to 15 per cent.
Meantime, benefitting from similar upgrades is Fiat’s second-generation 1.3-litre Multijet turbo-diesel engine, which employs anew common-rail injector to reduce consumption by around two per cent and NOx emissions by a claimed 30 per cent.
“We can’t commit to the MultiAir engine for our Punto until we’ve seen pricing, which won’t happen until next April,” said spokesman Edward Rowe. “We suspect we’ll continue to take the current base (1.4) engine to maintain the current price point for as long as it is available.“The MultiAir engines and other high-efficiency engines are built to meet Europe’s CO2-based taxation system. Australia is now the last mature market in the world not to have a vehicle tax based on fuel-efficiency.”
Fiat’s current Punto range in Australia opens with the 1.4 Dynamic five-door ($18,990) and extends to the 1.3 JTD ($23,990) and 1.4 Sport Turbo ($26,990), plus the three-door 1.4 Sport Turbo ($24,990).
Opening Europe’s Punto Evo range, however, will be an entry-level version of the premium 1.4 MultiAir four that will become available here earlier in 2010 in Alfa Romeo’s new Punto-based MiTo.
Fiat says its new MultiAir electro-hydraulic valve control system, developed by Fiat Powertrain technologies, will eventually be fitted across the Fiat Group’s entire petrol and diesel engine range. Like Unijet and Multijet, MultiAir is licensed to Bosch to make for a host of other car-makers, so expect similar induction systems to appear in a host of other vehicles soon.
Compared with a conventional engine of the same displacement, it is claimed to cut fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by around 10 per cent – as well as particulate emissions by up to 40 per cent and NOx emissions by up to 60 per cent – while increasing power by up to 10 per cent and torque by up to 15 per cent.
Meantime, benefitting from similar upgrades is Fiat’s second-generation 1.3-litre Multijet turbo-diesel engine, which employs anew common-rail injector to reduce consumption by around two per cent and NOx emissions by a claimed 30 per cent.
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