12 Facts About Fiat Stilo

Fiat Stilo is a small family car available as a three- and a five-door hatchback, as well as an estate, produced by Italian automaker Fiat.

Fiat Stilo's styling received mixed reviews, with many journalists and enthusiasts criticising it as being too bland and too German looking, as the styling of the preceding Bravo and Brava had been criticised for being too "Italian".

However, when pushed the Fiat Stilo resists understeer, although arguably its soft spring and damper rate dull the experience.

Fiat Stilo was originally offered in some markets with a radar assisted cruise control option; it included sensors in the front bumper and rear of the car to adjust the speed of the car according to other vehicles' speed.

For MY2006 in September 2005, the Fiat Stilo was updated with a new front grille, different seat fabric, a relocation of the electric mirror controls from the window control console to just behind the gear stick.

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Fiat Stilo passed the Euro NCAP car safety tests, with following ratings:.

In September 2004, a junior team backed up by Fiat Stilo UK competed in the Wales Rally GB of the World Rally Championship with group A cars, and the following year two other cars took part in the rally.

Fiat Stilo cars have been present in the Andros Trophy during the last years.

Only available in the five-door hatchback version, the Fiat Stilo was launched in South America in 2003, being assembled in Brazil.

Schumacher special edition of the Fiat Stilo was added in 2004 and lasted until 2006; contrary to the European version, which was based on the three-door version and equipped with the 2.

MY2009, Fiat Stilo withdrew the Abarth version from the market in Brazil; the version wasn't available in other markets anymore.

Fiat Stilo denied any wrongdoing, saying that the rear wheel problem was not the cause of the accidents, but rather caused by them.