Fiat Palio Stile [2007-2011]

Exterior Good, conventional design. Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Good features like all power windows, back wiper, rear defogger, Grey & Beige interior. Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Powerful engine,one can feel certain amount of masculinity while driving the car, Gear shifting not very smooth, average fuel economy, engine performance is very good. Ride Quality & Handling Ride quality is very good, a certain amount of solidness  can be felt, good grip on high speed, pick up manoeveribility are good, firm brake. Final Words Failed to understand why Fiat discontinued this car, infact it is a much better car than Punto almost in all aspects. One of the most  powerful cars in its segment. Other cars like Maruti's Swift, Dzire, Tata's Vista, Manza, Chevrolet Sail & Sail UVA, Fiat's Punto, Linea etc. all are using this same diesel  engine and are getting so much volumn of sales, but the original one gets vanished in the oblivion. Very sad!!!The only negative is excessive price of spare parts & lack of spare parts even with the Tata service centres (who are servicing Fiat presently). Areas of improvement Availability of spares, price of spares, service.Sturdy exterior, Good pick up, power, value for money carunavaibility of spare parts, gearshift is not very smooth

It was a terrible mistake to own a Fiat Palio Stile. The mistake was profoundly veted by the embarrassing service from TATA. My car, just run 20,000 k.m, is showing ingnition key problems. At first the self starter motor was running without engine start. Recently, the key is not at all starting the  self starter motor and engine. I have to find out a suitable position of the key out of 20 trials to start the car. Imagine, If my engine stops in a city traffic queue!. Service and delivery from TATA. The vehicle was delivered without dicky internal covering. The A/c valve started leaking inside the car after service. The coolant started leaking after service. A door was replaced by TATA and it got rusted in 2 weeks. It again got painted by TATA promising that it will not get rusted but again got rusted after 2 weeks. Again they have taken money and replaced the door(but actually they haven't replaced door but just painted it). The door got rusted again. The door beeding is loose and leaks while raining.Gear shiftnot robust

Exterior Good. Interior (Features, Space & Comfort) Attractive and spacious. Engine Performance, Fuel Economy and Gearbox Good. Ride Quality & Handling Wonderful to Drive, High level of safe feeling at high speeds (120/140). Final Words It was our dream car. The black Italian beauty Fiat Palio Stile SLX,make Nov 2007. We started searching to buy a new car from all available channels and finally we decided to go with Palio stile slx which is falling within our budget and taste. We compared with other models like Maruthi,Hyundai,Tata...etc. But finally this was the most attractive one.  I have driven 32000 KM now no issues at all except very negligible repairs and still Fine and excellent to drive. So many times I touched speed of 145 KM/H in the Chennai Kolkatta National Highway and Hyderabad Bangalore highways. The mileage never went below 14. During  my 5th service which is happened recently Feb second week 2012 I faced some issue with clutch and I informed the same thing to the authorized service partner in Pune( Now i am staying pune) to rectify. At that time SA told me that issue could be with Clutch plates and might be problem with Gear box etc etc.. without taking any test ride…. I left the car with them for 4 days and finally I got my vehicle delivered by charging some huge amount without resolving the main issue (Clutch) and also they told that they removed the air form Clutch master hydraulic and they guranteed drive upto 25 to 30 thousand KM more without any issues. If I want to replace the whole kit It costs around rs. 15000+ labour charges and also spares are not ready available. It was really surprise for me and they didn’t show any interest to rectify the issue. They were very busy with delivering the free servicing vehicles……They have very limited space in the garage for Fiat vehicles so they want to push out the vehicles as early as possible. But I am not fully convinced with their suggestions and I started searching for other options in pune. Luckily I got one, called Mirajkar Automobiles at dangi chock near aditya birla hospital, Chinchwad through one of my friend. I went there to get second opinion about the problem by struggling with double pressing of my car clutch all the way. He is really good technician, experienced, polite, gives you personal attention and charges are very less. He explained about the problem after taking test ride of my car and suggested to replace one small part. It was not all about the clutch plates and other things like what I heard earlier. It took 3 to 4 hrs to replace the part, and it cost me only Rs.2000. I felt very happy to find out that guy and Now a day’s spares are also easily available for Fiat vehicles. Always think about taking second opinion, be patience, Explore the market and Enjoy with your dream car. Otherwise you will end up in soup. Areas of improvement Fiat should increase their service stations and get engaged with quality service partners in all major cities in India. Then definitely you are going to be the toughest competitor in the Industry.Good fuel economy under city driving conditions, Long journey comfort like sedanProblem with service partners

  Hi All, Althrough I am a active user of the carwale forums for the car reviews for 5 years, I haven't shared my experience with my palio and would like to share some of my experience with this car. I bought this car in Jun'2008 after extensive reviews for various cars including GetZ, Swift, Swift Dzire, Indica, Wagon R. I have done a extensive analysis with my friends, test drives etc etc.. We can straight away rule out comparing the Palio 1.6 with Wagon R & Indica. Also Myself bit crazy about high speeds, but I always prefer the speed vs your comfort at high speeds. Almost All my friends were opposing me for this car, citing reasons as poor maintenance, not reliable. I have done a extensive analysis on the cost, space, power ratio, ground clearance, torque, comfort feeling, features ( brouchers, mauals, test drives) and finally decided to go ahead with Palio Stile 1.6 Sport. I felt this has a edge in many aspects that I have compared except the only point which I felt about it is the Maintenace. But it's ok, as my friend who is working in the Sales & Marketting of Automobiles used to tell me that this car does not run into issues simply. It's a pretty sturdy vechicle, I can gurantee that the amount of steel used in palio can be used to make atleast 3 - 4 Swift / Getz car. I am not joking, You can read out the steel aspect ratio / feel it when you go for the test drive. After my purchase, I ensured keeping a variance of RPM between 1.5 to 2.5 ( x1000) to ensure the engine gets set ( althrough it's not required - that's my style). I always have long drives to my hometown which is around 650 - 700 KM ( Bangalore to Tiruchendur). The highway experience / drive quality is really awesome. I have sat on my friends Swift for some long drives where I can feel the speed after it cross the speed of 120KM. But in Palio - Even when I drive at 130 - 140 KM, the comfort is pretty good and more important , the ability for you to stop at emergency is awesome. You won't feel inside like you are applying a very sharp breakes.   Overall, I felt the following key things that edge Palio as pretty good as compared to other cars, All these points are through my experience. 1. The drive control, even at 140 KM speed, I felt pretty comfortable. 2. The Aero dynamics of the car, which allows you to accelerate rapidly from 100 - 140 without hassles, even with AC on. I can bet we can't think of this many cars in this segment. This is very much good when you overtake cars that are driving constaly at 110 / 120 KM. Becoz, I have seen many cars compete now a days at the Bangalore - Madurai highway, You can zoom pass those vechicles. 3. No need to mention about the 100 BHP, through it's only at 100/ 5500, which is nice ( not excellent ). 4. The strudy feeling; You feel very comfort, Very spacious.. 4. I would like to deny the poor milege part - I also used to get 9 / 14 KM mileage in the past. However in my recent trip to my hometown, I kept constantly driving at 80- 100 KM. ( Not more than that ), and I got a high-way mileage of 18KM. I am sure even the Palio owner would get a heart-attack by hearing this. But it so happened in my car. And with the city drive now, I am getting close to 12 - 13 KM by keeping costant rev power.   5. I love the Palio Head lights - Too Sporty and give a very good feeling in the night.. Althrough the power is 55 - You can put 100/ h7. 6.  Vechichle Noise - You would absolutely hear nothing / not even a small vibration inside your car when the car is running with AC/ thanks to 1600 Engine.   Some Cons : 1. Spare Parts - You may end up waiting since Tata does not stock up the palio; 2. Not easy to get serviced in small towns; But imagine this would hold good for any high-end car ( if you have Honda Accord / Toyota Corolla).. :-) 3. The spare tyre is not tubeless - Which means it would not get used along with the tubeless tyres ( which comes with the wheel). Overall, I would give a edge to Palio (Provided you accept the cons, which is v.important & Mileage) and go ahead. Ofcourse I feel every car has it's own pros & cons. Anto.  Style, Space, Stability at high speed, ground clearance, Break GripProbably Mileage - But not bad..