Fiat Tipo Estate... any reviews?

[ka90]

Looking for a cheap & practical load lugger. The Tipo Estate is top of the list at the moment.
New-ish, 550 litre boot, 120HP, cheap & it's a Fiat!

Has anyone had any experience with them? Is it reasonable as a daily driver?
I'm not expecting anything excititng, just as a tool. I see they are popular rental cars.

Plan is to get something exctiting for the weekends.

[j4 mte]

I just handed one back this morning after having it for 48 hours as a courtesy car whilst my 4C was having its service.

On the whole, quite a pleasant car to drive. Decent interior, good ride quality and the seats are pretty comfortable. Excellent visibility and the boot was massive. My only gripe was how sharp the bloody brakes were! If it weren't for the seatbelt I would have put myself through the windscreen a couple of times!

As a daily runaround/load lugger I'd imagine it would tick all the boxes

[ka90]

Thanks- all sounds promising really. At least the brakes work!

Think i'll go for it. 1.2 t-jet 120hp in 'Easy Plus' tickes the box.
It's a proven engine. Think it's been about since about 2006.
Just need to find a none abused one. All the used cars appear to be ex-rental.

[Timothy555]

Go for it!

Currently driving a Tipo sedan 1.4 95 hp Lounge. Done about 26.000 miles in 2,5 years.

Fantastic car. I have a Tipo Estate 120 hp diesel S-design automatic on order now, as a company car.

It's relatively comfortable, has hard wearing plastics, drives more than ok, plenty of gadgets for the money and (my opinion) looks rather nice when compared to your average, grey VW Golf.

[anonymous-user]

You can get the Tipo 1.4 Easy in recession white for £9999 in the UK, every now and then I consider getting one to replace my shed.