It looks OK? But few sales in the UK.
General Why didn't the Tipo sell well?
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General Why didn't the Tipo sell well?
Fiat just isn't popular in the UK outside of vans and the 500
Nothing else sells well
Punto did years ago
But UK car market it very much image based hence
Why vag groups carrs do quite well people love to show off they have better cars then the Jones
Along with the fact UK motor press don't like most of fiats stuff and it rarely reviews well
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I think Fiat are best known for their small cars, so this medium sized one didn't get much attention.
I think from what i've read VW cars are quite low quality, and very over priced.
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Because FIAT UK didn't know what they were doing.
They didn't really promote the Tipo, just put poverty spec ones out to the hire companies. Which is how I first drove one.
If they'd pushed it properly, it would have competed against Skoda.
We had our Tipo 1.6 JTD for nearly 4 years and it was brilliant, everyone said that it was better than they thought it would be.
But Fiat did the usual, launched it, didn't market it or develop it
They've done the same thing with the 500x and Tipo Hybrids, only with less marketing and promotion or offers.
It annoys me no end, because you end up with crap re-sale values
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Motoring press ribbished it. Ok it wasnt a Focus, but I stepped out of the Focus into a Bravo, and the differences were utterly insignificant driven normally. Focus is very very good, but the Bravo was definitely not bad in comparrison. A sight less twitchy for one thing, and nicer for it over big distances. It was much better equipped, and cost £6000 less than either Ford or Vauxhall equivalents. Bravo did 100000 miles almost fault free, had a better engine and used a hello a lot less fuel. Fiat made bad cars that rusted for mny years, they compounded an awful reputation with appalling service. While this ws turned around around 2000, it is still affecting them. They perform reasonably well in JD Power and service is now ok at worst. Their sort of way of doing business will remain with them for a while yet, in spite of having improved out of all recognition. Tipo D is a cracking good car and great vfm.
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And what Panda nut said.
In any group test with any Volkswagen Group car in it, the FIAT will never win, there is a definite bias
I've driven equivalent Golf hire cars, boring as hell to drive, not that well made, properly badly equipped.
A Tipo was better
In any group test with any Volkswagen Group car in it, the FIAT will never win, there is a definite bias
I've driven equivalent Golf hire cars, boring as hell to drive, not that well made, properly badly equipped.
A Tipo was better
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I'm thinking of buying a Category N Tipo from copart, it should be quite cheap, and i'll repair.
The poor resale value is bad for those who own one from new or nearly new, but nowadays they look a bargain?
The poor resale value is bad for those who own one from new or nearly new, but nowadays they look a bargain?
The Tipo was never made for the Uk market.
If you look at the history, the Tipo was made specifically for the Turkish market where it sold well as the Agea
In the late 2010s Punto sales had all but collapsed, fiat had badly under invested in their line up and as a result they brought the “Tipo” to the UK to try and plug the gaps in their line up but also to replace the Punto once it went out of production and give an alternative to the 500L which was just not selling.
The Tipo was by the standards of the time a very basic car and looked a lot like the Astra. Which was somewhat ironic because it was built on a Vauxhall platform, the same aging platform as the Punto, which in 2018 was taken off sale for its poor safety, so no surprises that the Tipo only scored 3 stars on NCAP making it one of the most unsafe cars in its class.
Also because it was never meant for the uk it was never meant to be right hand drive, but the cost of converting it and tooling made the RHD car relatively expensive compared to other cars on the market.
The likes of the golf, focus and Astra are bought in massive bulk by rental companies and fleet buyers the fiat is/was not, so again sales were dependent on the public buying them which few did because of the price the low specs and the poor safety performance.
So all in all it was multi factorial but in essence it just wasn’t a good deal
If you look at the history, the Tipo was made specifically for the Turkish market where it sold well as the Agea
In the late 2010s Punto sales had all but collapsed, fiat had badly under invested in their line up and as a result they brought the “Tipo” to the UK to try and plug the gaps in their line up but also to replace the Punto once it went out of production and give an alternative to the 500L which was just not selling.
The Tipo was by the standards of the time a very basic car and looked a lot like the Astra. Which was somewhat ironic because it was built on a Vauxhall platform, the same aging platform as the Punto, which in 2018 was taken off sale for its poor safety, so no surprises that the Tipo only scored 3 stars on NCAP making it one of the most unsafe cars in its class.
Also because it was never meant for the uk it was never meant to be right hand drive, but the cost of converting it and tooling made the RHD car relatively expensive compared to other cars on the market.
The likes of the golf, focus and Astra are bought in massive bulk by rental companies and fleet buyers the fiat is/was not, so again sales were dependent on the public buying them which few did because of the price the low specs and the poor safety performance.
So all in all it was multi factorial but in essence it just wasn’t a good deal
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Seems like it shared a platform with Vauxhall, Jeep Renegade, Fiat500 X and L, and the Doblo. So secondhand parts should be cheap.
Shared platform doesn’t always mean shared parts, a platform is in essence a set of measurements there can be big differences between different models
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I like mine - a 1litre cross. Had it for three years now. Had its third year service on Monday at 24,000miles. This weekend I did 450 miles at an average 50.8mpg. My colleague has a 1 litre ecoboost focus of a similar age, and to be fair his may be a bit smarter inside but I prefer the TIPO overall.
At 24,000 miles the tyres are original and at 4mm on the front and 6mm on the back, the front pads are 30% worn. Nothing has gone wrong ( apart from a faulty headlamp replaced under warranty). All the technology works incl. the android auto and dab+ and the adaptive cruise control is great.
Negatives? I don’t think the paint is that thick as I am polishing scratches occasionally, wireless connectivity for android auto would be good and electronic folding mirrors would be useful but otherwise I really enjoy it as a modern daily car that is a bit unusual.
At 24,000 miles the tyres are original and at 4mm on the front and 6mm on the back, the front pads are 30% worn. Nothing has gone wrong ( apart from a faulty headlamp replaced under warranty). All the technology works incl. the android auto and dab+ and the adaptive cruise control is great.
Negatives? I don’t think the paint is that thick as I am polishing scratches occasionally, wireless connectivity for android auto would be good and electronic folding mirrors would be useful but otherwise I really enjoy it as a modern daily car that is a bit unusual.
The Tipo was doomed from the start - a medium sized family hatchback from a company that people typically only buy small cars from. Not marketed, priced too close to more established competitors in the more desirable trim levels & then sent out to rental fleets with often the most asthmatic engine of the range, which did nothing to bolster appeal to the masses.
Despite all that, my 1.4 T-Jet has been near faultless in the 40,000 miles I've done in it from new in 2018, is well equipped, looks decent, is perfectly fine to drive and is still worth 50% of what I paid for it. I only bought it as a stop gap but it does so much right that I paid off the PCP after 4 years and still have it now. The only cars I'd upgrade it for are quite significantly more expensive & the Tipo is so much better than people credit it for that I've been really hesitant to part with it.
Despite all that, my 1.4 T-Jet has been near faultless in the 40,000 miles I've done in it from new in 2018, is well equipped, looks decent, is perfectly fine to drive and is still worth 50% of what I paid for it. I only bought it as a stop gap but it does so much right that I paid off the PCP after 4 years and still have it now. The only cars I'd upgrade it for are quite significantly more expensive & the Tipo is so much better than people credit it for that I've been really hesitant to part with it.
