Fiat has successfully started to roll out its partnership with Ikea to provide its dealerships with furniture (see pictures inside story).
Fiat Commercial Vehicles is implementing a major restructuring of its dealer network, designed to strengthen aftersales support available to customers.
Iveco, part of the Fiat group, has finalised a joint venture agreement with the SAIC Motor Corporation and the Chongqing Heavy Vehicle Group, to establish a long-term HCV partnership in China.
Fiat Auto will next week reveal significant investment plans for its Fiat and Alfa Romeo networks that will drive improvements in customer service and brand perception in the UK.
Fiat goes Scandinavian
Fiat has teamed up with Ikea to refurbish its entire European sales and distribution network.
Renault has beaten Fiat and Volvo to win the Institute of Transport Management’s Best OE Parts Supplier 2006 award.
Iveco, Fiat Auto’s commercial vehicle division, is planning to develop a new range of light commercial 4x4 vehicles with Spanish manufacturer Santana.
Within a month of his group going into administration, former MG Rover dealer council chairman Richard Cort has re-opened the Fiat dealership in Bury that he acquired in 1993.
Fiat sold 4,644 units in April, doubling its UK market share to 2.85% compared to the same month last year (1.38%).
Lancashire-based Caledonia Fiat and Alfa Romeo has been named the UK’s Aftersales Distinction Dealer of the Year by Fiat Auto UK, at an awards ceremony held in Rome.
Confidential industry figures suggest that Fiat was forced to return to daily rental deals in April as dealers struggled to sell cars in a tough market.
Fiat’s Idea and Nissan’s Pathfinder have both achieved a four star rating for occupant protection in the latest results form the Euro NCAP safety tests.
Fiat Auto UK has tasted success again at last with a strong sales performance in March driven by the opening salvo in its 12-month £25m Grande Punto advertising campaign.
Caledonia Fiat and Alfa Romeo on Port Way, Ashdon on Ribble, has been named the UK’s Aftersales Distinction Dealer of the Year by Fiat Auto UK, at an awards ceremony held in Rome last week.
Fiat sold over 5,600 Grande Puntos in March, its first full month of sales.
An initiative for Fiat and Alfa Romeo dealers aimed at boosting their aftersales revenue is due to be unveiled next month.
A new special edition Fiat Panda Alessi, due to go on sale in the UK in April, is making its London debut at the Ideal Home Show, Earls Court, from Wednesday.
Tata Motors and Fiat India Private Limited has announced the start of the new Tata-Fiat dealer network to sell both brands of cars, along with service and sales of spare parts, in 11 cities across India.
The Fiat Punto has topped the Western European sales charts with 37,977 models sold in January.
