Fiat Fiorino

Fiat Fiorino at a glance

The Fiorino is listed with Fiat's passenger cars and vans in our Fiat catalogue. For more space, Fiat offers the larger Fiat Doblò.

Fiorino generations from 1977

First generation (1977–1988): the 127 with a high box

The first Fiorino was launched in early November 1977 as a panel van based on the Series 2 Fiat 127, with a tall "high cube" load box of 1.3 metres. It started with the 903 cc OHV engine with 33 kW (45 PS) and 64 Nm. A 1,049 cc OHC with 37 kW (50 PS) followed in 1979–1980, and a 1.3-litre diesel with 33 kW (45 PS) in the early 1980s. Bertone built the European cars until late 1987, including right-hand-drive versions from 1979.

In Brazil the Fiorino was launched in September 1980 on the Fiat 147 with a payload of 420 kg. Betim built 250,545 of them until 1988, including 78,459 pickups. In Argentina Sevel built another 25,035 from 1989 to 1995, and in Spain the SEAT-based Emelba 127 Poker was a local relative.

Second generation (1988–2013): the Uno-based Fiorino

The second Fiorino was developed in Brazil from the local Uno and Duna family, released in 1987 and sold in Europe from 1988. It came as the Cargo van, the Panorama passenger version and a pickup. Launch engines were a 1,301 cc petrol with 50 kW (68 hp) and a 1.7-litre diesel with 44 kW (60 hp). A 1.5 followed in 1989, and continental Europe also received a 1.1 with 40 kW (54 hp). A facelift in 1992 brought styling inspired by the Fiat Tipo, and from 1994 the van moved to a Mille-based platform with a longer wheelbase.

More than 250,000 were sold in Europe by the end of 2000 and more than one million in South America. Betim built 981,922 second-generation Fiorinos, 206,302 of them pickups, before Brazilian production ended in December 2013.

Third generation (2008–2024): Turkish-built with PSA twins

The third Fiorino was a joint project of Fiat and PSA. It was unveiled in October 2007 and went on sale in February 2008; production at Tofaş in Bursa, Turkey, began in November 2007. Peugeot sold it as the Bipper and Citroën as the Nemo, and Fiat added the Qubo passenger version, launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2008. The van uses the Fiat Small platform of the Grande Punto with a 2,513 mm wheelbase, and was named Van of the Year 2009.

The load area is 1.52 m long, 1.47 m wide and 1.18 m high, with 1.04 m between the wheel arches and a loading sill at 527 mm. It holds 2.5 m³, or 2.8 m³ and a load length of 2.49 m with the passenger seat folded. The petrol engine was a 1.4 8V with 57 kW (77 PS) and 118 Nm, also offered as the Natural Power CNG version with 51 kW (70 PS) on gas. The 1.3 Multijet diesel came with 55–59 kW (75–80 PS) and 190 Nm, or with 70 kW (95 PS) and 200 Nm.

A facelift in 2016 brought the 1.4 Fire petrol with 57 kW (77 PS), Multijet diesels with 59 and 70 kW (80 and 95 PS), an EcoJet economy version and a 5-inch touchscreen. The Peugeot and Citroën twins were not updated and, according to English Wikipedia, ended in December 2017, while the Fiat stayed in production; its engines were homologated to Euro 6d-Temp in July 2018. German registrations of the Fiorino as a passenger car reached 12,892 from 2008 to 2020.

Safety

In April 2010 a Citroën Nemo rolled over in a moose test carried out in Germany. According to Wikipedia, electronic stability control was not available for it at that time, either as standard or as an option.

Fiorino in Latin America: the Uno-based van since 2013

In Brazil, Fiat introduced a new Fiorino in October 2013 as a 2014 model, based on the second-generation Uno (Type 327). It is sold as the Ram Promaster Rapid in Mexico and as the Ram V700 Rapid in Chile, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru, and since May 2022 also as the Peugeot Partner Rapid in Brazil. Its 1.4 Evo flex-fuel engine produced 63–66 kW (85–88 hp) on petrol and ethanol until 2024, and in 2025 it was replaced by the 1.3 Firefly flex engine with 79 kW (107 cv). Brazilian sales were 23,824 in 2014 and 21,329 in 2025.

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