Fiat tend to use their own engines only. Even their version of the Mazda MX5 the 124 Spider had Fiat motors shipped to Japan to be installed instead of sticking with the cheaper and more sensible approach of just sticking with what was there already. I’m trying to think of any Fiat’s that use another manufacturers engine and the only thing I can come up with is their version of Mitsubishi’s L200 and Suzuki’s SX4 petrol. Both of which are/were really just bought in and rebadged. I believe these new motors are all Fiat/Chrysler’s own work and hopefully they’ve some good old Italian spirit included as they’ve always been good at making small petrol engines. Fiat as a firm have been struggling for years. They desperately need to gain higher margins but the name doesn’t carry enough prestige to allow sales of higher value SUV’s etc that are required. Better bet would be to focus on the cheaper cars they do well but they’ll need to manufacture these outside of Italy if they want to make any money. I’ll never understand why they moved production of the Panda back to Italy from Poland which made the older, much cheaper and far better selling model.

The GM-Fiat engine alliance was meant to share engine, both ways - GM infamously got access to Fiat diesels but I'm not sure which GM engines were used by Fiat.

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Edited by RT on 14/09/2019 at 09:41