Faults:

Air conditioning is good enough, but the car loses all its "horses" for that...

Side door windows rubber seals keeps on moving of alignment.

Door Handle Rubber from all four doors cracked and disintegrated.

Right rear-view mirror is getting dark (water infiltrations).

Two screws from the tablier are always falling...

Driver Seat became noisy after 5 yrs.

General Comments:

Love the concept (Pinifarina - need to say anything else?...), look and equipment (when prices are compared to similar models...) Shame on them for discontinuing this model for the awful Fiat Stilo...

Despite all plastic problems on doors and tablier, the engine never gave me any single problem. "Fells good" to see all those BMW, Mercedes (and so on) stopped aside the road for engine problems (and not make part of the show myself...).

Faults:

Since the beginning the gearbox was noisy at approximately 2500 RPM. The dealer replaced it for the brand new one in guarantee period, but the noise is still present. It must be the design fault transferring this.

The rear absorbers had to be replaced at 45000 km due to oil leakage and poor function.

The car starter coil was replaced as it stopped work at 51000 km.

General Comments:

The car itself is relatively nice in design of exterior/interior, comfortable to drive and travel having roomy interior which sometimes emits cracking noise from right-front door plastic paneling.

Material used on dashboard (hard plastic) corresponds to the price category of the car (It would be appreciable to have soft dashboard for the next).

Boot is the biggest among these compact cars as far as I know.

No corrosion was detected so far.

Surprisingly the fuel consumption is low; it is 6.7 l per 100 km in average.

Overall impression of this car is very good. It is also from my friends who has FIAT Brava.

Faults:

At 65000 miles, The rear brake cylinder collapsed.

Just after my 3 month warranty had finished, I had problems with the Sunroof, a clip had perished and now rattles when the car is at speed.

General Comments:

After owning a Rover 100, this car is luxurious!

I have found the car reasonably reliable so far.

Superb handling, however it is sluggish up hills.

My only negative point, I find the car heavy on petrol.

Faults:

The right hand front electric window has stopped working.

The seat heater in the drivers seat has stopped working.

The rear window demisters have stopped working.

General Comments:

The performance of this car is OK however the acceleration is sluggish compared to other turbo diesels like the Golf or Seat Leon.

However the interior styling is second to none and the whole dashboard and radio setup give an air of quality given by no other car in the same price bracket.

The seats in this model are extremely comfortable.

Faults:

First of all the exhaust went.

Then the alternator belt snapped.

The RPM sensor went next what ever that is. This caused the car not to start intermittently so I couldn't go anywhere without someone to give me a push start.

Next without warning the engine dropped a valve and I have been told that I now need a new engine. Fiat explained that the engine had become starved of oil. This is impossible as the recovery man who recovered me said all my levels were fine.

General Comments:

This car was a waste of time and money.

I can't trust it to start anytime.

The dealers at Fiat are unhelpful and arrogant.

When fully maintained how can a car need a new engine after four years with no realistic explanation of fault.