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The Fiat Marea is a small family car (compact) available as a sedan/saloon and a wagon/estate (Fiat Marea Weekend), manufactured by the Italian carmaker Fiat Auto. Launched in 1996, the Marea models were essentially different body styles of Fiat's hatchback offerings, the Bravo and Brava.

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Production and markets

The Marea was originally manufactured in Fiat's Cassino and Mirafiori plants in Italy. Later Marea also superseded the Tempra in Brazilian, Betim and Turkish Bursa (Tofaş), which make vehicles mostly for local and other developing markets.

In Europe, production and sales of the Marea ceased in 2002, a year after the Bravo and Brava were replaced with Fiat Stilo. The Marea Weekend was replaced by the Stilo Multiwagon, while the sedan was dropped altogether due to relatively low popularity of compact sedan cars in Europe. Nevertheless, the Marea (in both body styles) is still manufactured in Turkey and Brazil for local (and other Latin American) markets. The Brazilian version was facelifted in 2001, when it gained a redesigned rear end with taillights very similar to those from Lancia Lybra. For 2006 the Marea was mildly revised again, gaining a new rear end, and a new grille, similar in style to other current Fiat models.

Engines

The Marea petro and turbo-diesel engines 1.4 L, 1.6 L, 1.8 L and 2.0 L petrol and 1.9 L were sourced from the Brava and Bravo, and a 2.0 20v turbo option from the Fiat Coupé was also available. For a short time there was also a 2.4 turbodiesel available, dropped in 2001, which has become sought after. A Marea BiPower 1.6 L flexible fuel engine was later added to the range; it may run on either petrol, ethanol or any mixture of them. The Brazillian market saw different engines and the currently available are the 1.6 16v (103bhp/76kW), the 1.8 16v (97kW/131bhp), the 2.4 20v (159bhp/117kW) and the 2.0 20v Turbo (134kW/182bhp).

Brazillian engines and models

The Marea was introduced in 1998 into the brazillian market with only one engine: the 2.0 20v. Due to brazillian production taxes the 2.0 20v engine had it´s electronic fuel injection remmaped to limit the engine power to 128 bhp in the Marea SX and ELX models of 1999. The engine retained it´s full power (141bhp) on the more expensive Marea HLX model. Simply exchanging the SX or ELX fuel injection chip with the HLX chip would bring back the original engine power. Fiat initially claimed it to be untrue explaining that other modifications had been made in the SX/ELX models for cost-savings, but this was revealed to be false.

In 2000 the 2.0 20v engine was replaced with the 2.4 20v (159bhp) engine in the HLX model, and the SX model started using the 1.8 16v engine (131bhp), while the ELX injection was maped as the HLX to give the 2.0 20v engine the original engine power (141bhp).

Later the 2.0 20v engine was dropped and the 1.6 16v (103bhp) engine was introduced. The brazillian models and their respective current engines are as follows:

All brazillian engines are petrol based.

References

Fiat car timeline, European market, 1980s-present - [ edit]
Type 1980s 1990s 2000s
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
City car 126 Cinquecento Seicento 500
Panda Nuova Panda
Supermini 127 Uno Punto I Punto II Punto III
Small family car Ritmo Tipo Bravo / Brava Stilo
Regata Tempra Marea
Large family car Argenta Croma I Croma II
Coupé X1/9 Coupé
Roadster Barchetta Barchetta
Panel van Fiorino I Fiorino II Doblò
Mini SUV Sedici
Mini MPV Idea
Compact MPV Multipla
Large MPV Ulysse I Ulysse II

 

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