AUTONEWS

END OF THE LINE TO FIAT PUNTO

Fiat Punto is still available in some markets, and although the Italian-based multi-purpose veteran is still available in the brand's configurator, it will bid farewell to the market when the current stock is exhausted, as last week Fiat's hatchback ended production at Fiat Punto. Melfi's Italian plant.The third generation of the Fiat Punto debuted in the year 2005 and until a few days only survived in its body format with five hits. With 13 years on his back, the veteran model of the Italian brand was able to withstand the passage of time thanks to its attractive design that carried the signature of Giorgetto Giugiaro. Although the Fiat Punto is no longer the most attractive model in its segment, the fact is that it has managed to stay current even though its last aesthetic update of importance has been going on for more than a decade.The Melfi plant now focuses its resources on the Jeep Renegade and Fiat 500X, two of the models timely chosen by Sergio Marchionne, who have always done what they could to protect Italian factories. Marchionne believed that Italian plants should produce models of higher segments and chose to transfer production from the more accessible models to places where the incidence of labor was lower.The fact is that it is not yet known if the Fiat Punto will have a successor and although it was spoken some time of the Brazilian Fiat Argo as its possible substitute in Europe, for now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles did not release any information on the possible continuity of this model that so many satisfactions brought to the Italian manufacturer.