Monday, August 31, 2009

2010 Fiat Punto Evo Review


2010 Fiat Punto Evo

Mention the name "Evo" about any car nut, and the aboriginal car to appear to apperception will assuredly be the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. But afore the Japanese got their easily on the term, the Italians acclimated it to analyze some actively fast variations on some already actively fast cars. The Evoluzione tag has been slapped on aggregate from the gravel-munching Lancia Delta Integrale to the track-bound Ferrari FXX, the supercar-breeding 288 GTO, and assorted hotted-up iterations of the Mercedes-Benz 190 E to name aloof a few. Now, Fiat has unearthed the achievement handle for the latest afterlight of its amount product, the Grande Punto.

Unfortunately, the new Punto Evo is no fire-breathing Abarth version, it's aloof a apprehensive afterlight of Fiat's bread-and-butter. Visually, the Punto Evo is acclaimed from the Grande Punto it replaces by revised bumpers and lights, growing almost an inch in breadth while the added ambit break the same. The interior, however, has been thoroughly revised, and it appearance a new touchscreen info-tainment arrangement fabricated in accord with both Microsoft and Tom Tom.






And while the Punto may not be accepting any new Evo-worthy powerplants, the agent ambit has been adapted to accommodate the company's new Multiair agent (also featured in the Alfa MiTo) that anon controls airflow and agitation ante in anniversary alone butt to optimize ability delivery, emissions and ammunition consumption. We'll be on duke to accompany you the new Punto Evo alive from the Frankfurt Motor Show area it's set to admission abutting month, but in the meantime, you can analysis out the columnist releases afterwards the jump and the images in the arcade below.