Fiat responds to engine speculation
The company says engines across the range will be rationalised over the following years for the purpose of operational synergies, cost efficiencies and improvement of engine performances. But engines already share the same basic components and it is fine tuning and other components such as the cylinder head which provide the 'personalisation' of the different brands.
"This is most certainly not a new development, as has already been the case with Fiat and Alfa Romeo engines," the statement says, adding that the identity of each brand will be further enhanced 'without any compromise'.
“The objective of these decisions - overall improvement of engine performance and cost efficiencies - has the ultimate aim of providing the Fiat Auto customer with a superior product quality of even higher standards and a supreme driving experience. The Fiat-GM alliance is an industrial alliance - allied in costs and competitors in the market place - an upstream accord and NOT a downstream deal.”