Fiat Qubo MPV: Updated Image Gallery

The Qubo is the production version of Fiat’s Geneva Show Fiorino MPV and although sales have already started in several European markets including France, Spain, Italy and Poland, the Italian automaker just decided to release the full image gallery of its alternative minivan. The Qubo features two sliding rear side doors and a practicable interior that can fit up to five passengers and 330 liters worth of luggage (up to the parcel rack) and 650 liters if measured up to the roof. With the rear seats removed, the capacity increases to 2,500 liters. -Continued

Powertrain options include a 73 HP 1.4-liter gasoline engine and a 75 HP 1.3 Multijet diesel engine matted to a 5-speed manual gearbox or a semi-automatic six-speed transmission. The Qubo MPV is expected to go on sale in Germany, Holland and Ireland this October with Belgium and Greece following in November and Great Britain and Denmark in early 2009.

Fiat Portofino Concept - A Modern Day Beach Car

It may look like as if it were stripped down for spare parts in some bad neighborhood, but the Portofino Concept that will be show at the Caravan Salon due to be held in Dusseldorf from August 29 to September 7 is actually inspired from the open-topped beach cars that were built onto small Fiat models by Italian coachbuilders in the 1960s. Based on the Fiorino, the Portofino Concept has not only lost its roof but also its doors that have been somewhat replaced by nautical ropes. To compensate for the structural loss, Fiat’s designers added a rollbar-like central ring. -Continued

Inside, the Portofino design follows a nautical theme with the interior flooring made out of wood. Other changes include the repainted dashboard and the new seats that have been upholstered with natural fibres treated using a special waterproofing process.

Although Fiat supports that the Portofino is just a study, the Italian automaker also said that a covered version will be available at a later stage for protection against sun and rain. In other words, don’t be surprised if Fiat decides in the near future to offer a production model based on this concept.

Fiat Fiorino Qubo Multi Purpose Vehicle

The production version of the Fiat’s Geneva Show Fiorino People-Carrier will bear the name Fiorino Qubo and it will be arriving in European dealerships over the next few weeks with prices in Italy starting around €13,000 or $20,000. The 5-seater Fiorino Qubo is marketed by Fiat as an affordable compact MPV and it will be offered with two engines, a 75Hp 1.3 Multijet diesel and a 73Hp 1.4-liter petrol unit. -Continued

Created as a result of a manufacturing joint venture between Fiat and PSA, the Fiorino Qubo is made at the Tofas factory in Bursa (Turkey) and this month it will be launched in France, followed by Austria, Poland and Hungary in July and August. It will then become available in Italy, Germany and Switzerland, and will arrive in Holland, Ireland and Belgium in October. Next year the launch will conclude in Great Britain and Denmark.

Geneva Preview: 2009 Fiat Fiorino People-Carrier

Debuting at the Geneva showroom, the stubby faced Fiorino People-Carrier is the newest addition to Fiat’s LCV range. Based on the Fiorino Commercial Vehicle that was unveiled last fall, the minivan version can either seat five passengers in two rows of seats or it can satisfy its owner’s carrying needs thanks to the versatile interior. -Continued

Press Release - Fiorino, a speciale vehicle for Fiat Professional

Debuting at the Geneva showroom, a global preview of the new version of the Fiorino people-carrier model. Belonging to a broader project which last October gave life to Fiorino in the variant Commercial Vehicle, this car today marks an important step forward by Fiat Professional towards private clients who search for “intelligent” products to satisfy different mobility needs.

To this question, Fiat Fiorino responds with a distinct personality, reliable and robust qualities as well as functionality and unique versatility: in synthesis, this is the soul of the car. It is precisely the solid yet multifaceted nature which allows it to interpret so casually, such distinct roles and tasks. For example, it's the perfect answer for those who desire a young, practical, informal and “intelligent” car, which is both capable of carrying friends as well as sports equipment for leisure time.

At the same time, Fiat Forino satisfies the needs of who look for compactness in a city-car , functionality and contained running costs without giving-up a distinctive look.

2008 Fiat Fiorino LCV

Fiat took the wraps off the all-new Fiorino LCV (Light Commercial Vehicle) that is aimed towards small-businesses in need of an agile and compact van. Developed in cooperation with the PSA Citroen-Peugeot Group, the compact LCV measures in at 3.86 m in length (150.8-inches) and according to Fiat, it features a 1,5 m (59.0-inches) long cargo bed. The Fiorino is set to go on sale in Italy this December with the rest of the Europe following in early 2008. -Press release after the jump

Via: Autoblog.it , Source: Fiat

Translated Press Release

Fiat Professional introduces the new Fiorino, a new compact, outside large van “within”

Fiat Professional has yesterday introduced the new Fiorino to beyond 600 Italian concessionaires. The convention it has been carried out near the Auditorium of the Ingot to Turin. Next 4 October, the new Fiorino will be introduced to the press to the Transpotec of Milan, the international Hall of the Technologies of the Transports on Road, the Intermodal Services and the Logistics.

Heir of a succeeding model of large, the new Fiorino represents, thanks to the compactness of the external dimensions, to the performances works them and to one modern style and symbol, a completely unknown offer on the market of the small vans.

Developed jointly from Fiat and PSA Peugeot Citroën and realized in collaboration with Tofas, the Fiorino is along in fact single 3,86 meters but it offers inner dimensions optimized (2,5 m3 of volumetria and 1,5 m of inner length) estendibili to 2,8 m3 and to 2,5 m, thanks to the presence of a abbattibile fleeting seat.

Accessibility to the cargo bay is facilitated from flowing lateral doors and posterior clapper doors of great dimensions and from one low cargo threshold (53 cm).

Agile in the traffic and easy to park it offers it appeal to of guide and standard of emergency like one car.

The nside, luminous spazioso and, are work them, ergonomic and comfortable also for an intense one I use professional. Equipments which the power steering, the ABS and the air-bag for leading, are present of series. They are also available, at call, numerous other devices typical you of advanced segments, which the parking sensors, the cetralized closing of the nside separated from the cargo bay, etc

The Fiorino above all characterizes for operating costs many contents, shining, reliable, efficient thanks to motorizations benzine and diesels engine in terms of saving of fuel and rispettose of the atmosphere (4,5 l/100 km of consumption in the cycle arranged and 119 g/km of CO2 for the diesel motor).

Fiat Fiorino will be in sale beginning from beginning December in Italy and subsequently it will be commercialized abroad.