How The Fiat Tipo Could Easily Be Chrysler’s Newest Sedan Or Wagon
Forum Member @TripleT Shares His Thoughts After Experiencing A Tipo
Fiat Tipo (FCA Italy)
Last week we told you about the new Dodge Neon sedan, currently being sold in the Middle East and Mexico. The new Neon is a badge-engineered Fiat Tipo which our Forum member: TripleT previously had experience with on a trip to Italy. He was kind enough to share his thoughts on the Tipo and how he thinks it could easily be brought to the North American market under Chrysler. Here are his thoughts.
It almost always exciting to be in Jesi (yeah-zea) Italy to see the first shots of a new product, Jesi is just inland from the Adriatic Sea near Ancona. For those less familiar about 2 o’clock northeast from Rome on the opposite coast. The Food is terrific; the Scenery is lovely, the Wine is wonderful. However, this time I had a new experience, getting to spend the week being shuffled around in a brand new Fiat Tipo Wagon, the new company car of my host. The Tipo is a car that is extremely interesting to me, not because it is particularly special as cars go. It’s a Fiat, so no it’s not a Maserati, Alfa, or Ferrari, but because it seems to be exactly the car that is missing at the Local CDJR and Fiat dealership back home. What is interesting is while it doesn’t fit well in the USA as a Fiat, as it is not whimsical and Cute as defined by the 500 line, it doesn’t fit the Fiat line in Italy either. By Italian or any Narrow street European country standards, it is quite Large “for a Fiat.” No, no one in North America is going describe it as large, but trust me whatever size us well fed Americans think it to be, it is more substantial. It is bigger than a Focus, dare I say it feels more prominent than a Chrysler 200. At the least, it is better packaged than a 200. While I would bump my head getting in a Chrysler 200, with my hair being tickled even on the shortest ride. This was not at all the case for the Tipo. My taller colleague volunteered to sit in the back the entire week without a single complaint. At no point was leg room ever an issue in the front or rear, while not a 300 by any standard no one’s seating position could ever be described as anything but comfortable.
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Forum Member @TripleT Shares His Thoughts After Experiencing A Tipo
Fiat Tipo (FCA Italy)
Last week we told you about the new Dodge Neon sedan, currently being sold in the Middle East and Mexico. The new Neon is a badge-engineered Fiat Tipo which our Forum member: TripleT previously had experience with on a trip to Italy. He was kind enough to share his thoughts on the Tipo and how he thinks it could easily be brought to the North American market under Chrysler. Here are his thoughts.
It almost always exciting to be in Jesi (yeah-zea) Italy to see the first shots of a new product, Jesi is just inland from the Adriatic Sea near Ancona. For those less familiar about 2 o’clock northeast from Rome on the opposite coast. The Food is terrific; the Scenery is lovely, the Wine is wonderful. However, this time I had a new experience, getting to spend the week being shuffled around in a brand new Fiat Tipo Wagon, the new company car of my host. The Tipo is a car that is extremely interesting to me, not because it is particularly special as cars go. It’s a Fiat, so no it’s not a Maserati, Alfa, or Ferrari, but because it seems to be exactly the car that is missing at the Local CDJR and Fiat dealership back home. What is interesting is while it doesn’t fit well in the USA as a Fiat, as it is not whimsical and Cute as defined by the 500 line, it doesn’t fit the Fiat line in Italy either. By Italian or any Narrow street European country standards, it is quite Large “for a Fiat.” No, no one in North America is going describe it as large, but trust me whatever size us well fed Americans think it to be, it is more substantial. It is bigger than a Focus, dare I say it feels more prominent than a Chrysler 200. At the least, it is better packaged than a 200. While I would bump my head getting in a Chrysler 200, with my hair being tickled even on the shortest ride. This was not at all the case for the Tipo. My taller colleague volunteered to sit in the back the entire week without a single complaint. At no point was leg room ever an issue in the front or rear, while not a 300 by any standard no one’s seating position could ever be described as anything but comfortable.
Continue reading this article here.
