In 1989 the Brazilian-built Fiorino became the test bed for Fiat's new 1.5-litre take on its long-running Fiasa engine — the very first vehicle to get it.
Lead trim: 1,108 cc FIRE petrol · up to 84 hp
Fiat Fiorino Type 146146 · 1988–2014
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FactIn 1989 the Brazilian-built Fiorino became the test bed for Fiat's new 1.5-litre take on its long-running Fiasa engine — the very first vehicle to get it.
The second-generation Fiorino (146) was built from 1988 to 2013 at Betim, Brazil, and until 2014 in Córdoba, Argentina and at Manta, Ecuador, as a panel van and pick-up on the Type One platform related to the Fiat Uno/Mille and the Fiat Duna, Penny and Elba, and was sold as the Fiat Premio Pickup in Venezuela and the Fiat Uno Pickup in Brazil. It was succeeded by the Fiat Doblò in Europe. Available engines were the Fiat 1.7-litre 8V diesel (naturally aspirated or turbocharged), the 1.3-litre "Fiasa" engine, the 1.2-litre and 1.4-litre 8V Fire, and, for South America, the Fiasa Flex 1.0-litre and 1.5-litre 8V.
Collectors Spotted in the Fiat Fiorino Lineage
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Trims & Figures
8 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,108 cc FIRE petrol | 1988–2013 | 1.1 L Inline-4 | 54 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1,116 cc (146 A6.000) petrol | 1988–2013 | 1.1 L Inline-4 | — | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1,301 cc (146 A5.000) petrol | 1988–2013 | 1.3 L Inline-4 | 67 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1,368 cc FIRE Evo flex-fuel | 1988–2013 | 1.4 L Inline-4 | 84 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1,497 cc (149 C1.000) petrol | 1988–2013 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 54 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1,581 cc (128 series) petrol | 1988–2013 | 1.6 L Inline-4 | — | — | — | FWD | — | — |
| 1,697 cc (146 B2.000) diesel | 1988–2013 | 1.7 L Inline-4 | 56 hp | 72 lb-ft | — | FWD | — | — |
| 999 cc FIRE petrol | 1988–2013 | 1.0 L Inline-4 | 76 hp | — | — | FWD | — | — |
Owning one
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Owners’ builds
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Photographs
This van's own badge-engineered sibling, the Citroën Nemo, rolled over during a routine evasive-manoeuvre test in Germany in 2010 — its tall, short-wheelbase shape was the cause, and stability control wasn't even offered to prevent it.
In 1989 the Brazilian-built Fiorino became the test bed for Fiat's new 1.5-litre take on its long-running Fiasa engine — the very first vehicle to get it.
Spain got its own version of the first Fiorino, sold as the Emelba 127 Poker, with its own design studio and its own pickup body nobody else had.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
Chevy pitched the Astro as the anti-minivan, telling buyers life was too big for one, while it rode on a rear-wheel-drive truck frame.
The IIHS rated the Astro Poor in a 1996 crash test, yet 2001–2004 Astros later had the lowest driver death rate of any US passenger vehicle.
The boxy, unglamorous Astro quietly posted one of the best real-world safety records in America: IIHS found 2001-2004 models had the fewest driver deaths per million vehicles of any passenger vehicle on US roads.
The third-generation Tourneo Connect, released in Europe in October 2021, is a rebadged fourth-generation Volkswagen Caddy, assembled by Volkswagen in Poland.
Ford beat the 25% "chicken tax" by importing the Transit Connect as a passenger van — rear windows and seats included, then stripped out and recycled once it landed in the US.
Ford spent years in federal court over the second-gen Transit Connect: in June 2019 the US won its appeal, and judges ruled the van was cargo-only — ending Ford's workaround for the 'chicken tax.'
GM sold a rebadged Nissan NV200 as the Chevy City Express for four years, then killed it in 2018, citing weak sales and the fact that its parts weren't even compatible with GM's own parts catalog.
Its name is a pun: "S-Cargo" means "Small Cargo" but sounds just like escargot — French for snail, the shape the whole van was built to resemble.