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. Showroom Used cars Dealer locator Fleet Finance & insurance Ownership About Fiat Accessories Forum Contact myFiat Book a Test Drive Request a Brochure Configure a Fiat > Flash Landing Page Get the latest flash player To experience Fiat in all its interactive, all-singing, all-dancing glory, download the latest Flash player and make sure Javascript is enabled on your browser. Haven't got Flash installed on your computer? No worries – you can visit our HTML site here Search Sitemap Help Glossary Ts&Cs Privacy Fiat Vans Mobility Motor Industry Codes of Practice Log in || community HQ blog Forums Search Help Rules Fiat Punto 1.1 Active Eco Scrappage ? Please login or register to post a message. General » Fiat Talk » Re: Fiat Punto 1.1 Active Eco Scrappage ? Author Message Mathew Joined: 21-02-2010 Posts: 4 Posted: 21-02-2010, 7:34 PM Fiat Punto 1.1 Active Eco Scrappage ? Hi,I am on a budget and noticed Fiat are doing the Fiat Punto 1.1 Active 5 Eco for only £4995.I was going to buy a Fiat Punto 1.1 Active 2006 for £4000 but thought for an extra £1000 and my qualifying car it would make sence to get a brand new one. I need some advice thou and am in some doubt. I am 22 and my credit score by credit expert is 828 rated as Fair.I have had credit cards and always paid them off in full, have an overdraft never used it etc basically have always paid my bills in full to improve my credit rating etc. I am somewhat concerned i applied for finance on two of the vehicles and was declined. The two dealers did not search a panel of finance companies only searched one finance company each, i only ever had one bill that i never paid which shows as default on my credit profile for £387 but that is a dispute stll.Do anyone know if Fiat is strict on credit rating etc? i have no outstanding debt or anything just the dispute one which is not allot. I moved address 8 months ago and still not on electrol roll which again concerns me but was told by local authority it can take several months for it to update, i filled it in at end of October 2009.I am just worried i won't be accepted and would feel embarrassed being at the dealer to be told i was declined, Anyone have any ideas how there credit rating system etc works or if they are very strict? Also I can only afford the basic model if i was accepted, is it still a good car? i mean i will only be doing city driving and 3 times a year travelling 300 miles return up country so thought as it suits my budget it would be ideal.There finance calculator online quoted £138 odd over 48 months, not sure what apr rate i would get and if everyone gets same rate, anyone could clairfy?I am going there in the morning to speak to someone.Thanks for any help. Mathew Joined: 21-02-2010 Posts: 4 Posted: 21-02-2010, 7:37 PM Re: Fiat Punto 1.1 Active Eco Scrappage ? Was meant to say the finance being declined was not any fiat dealers just 2 small dealers on used Fiat Panda. Fiat Marketing Joined: 16-07-2007 Posts: 593 Posted: 25-02-2010, 6:57 PM Re: Fiat Punto 1.1 Active Eco Scrappage ? Hi MathewAs this is a public forum, we cannot discuss your specific case. Our finance is offered through all Fiat dealers who will be able to submit a finance proposal to us on your behalf. Alternatively, you can write to us for more information. Our address is: Fiat Financial Services, PO Box 108, Leeds, LS27 OWU. Kind regardsFiat Marketing Search "Fiat UK" on Facebook. Follow Fiat_UK on Twitter. Need some help? Call Ciao Fiat on freephone 00800 3428 0000. Curr946 Joined: 13-02-2010 Posts: 21 Location: Fife Posted: 27-02-2010, 11:16 PM Re: Fiat Punto 1.1 Active Eco Scrappage ? I work for a bank and i would strongly advise you to clear the default first as even if this is in dispute you will still be showing as owing the monies on your credit file. If you have already been declined twice you will have already lowered your score by making the searches, my advise would be to first contact the company who registered the default and offer to clear the balance if they agree to remove the default, once showing as settled (IE no longer a default) then try again for the car you want, this will not only dramatically improve your chances of being accepted but would also reduce the amount of interest you would be charged.Hope this helps. Search Sitemap Help Glossary Ts&Cs Privacy Fiat Vans Mobility Motor Industry Codes of Practice Log in || . Showroom Used cars Dealer locator Fleet Finance & insurance Ownership About Fiat Accessories Forum Contact myFiat Book a Test Drive Request a Brochure Configure a Fiat about fiat>innovation > Eco Drive TwinAir Blue&Me™ Start&Stop MultiJet MultiAir® eco:Drive EcoDrive   Today, at the inauguration of the Paris Motor Show 2008, the Managing Director of Fiat Automobiles, Lorenzo Sistino, presented “ecoDrive” to the international press; it is an innovative system that allows drivers to gain better insight into how their driving style influences their consumption and emission of pollutants. “ecoDrive” is a software application that can be installed on your computer and is available from today on www.fiat.co.uk/ecodrive (there is also a video dedicated to the product on this site). As you are driving your car, “ecoDrive” processes in detail all the information relating to the vehicle’s efficiency and your driving characteristics. Thanks to the versatile Blue&Me’s USB port, all the data is transmitted via a normal USB key and can, therefore, be “read” on a computer at a later date. In fact, the user can carefully analyse consumption and emission on each journey they make (ecoIndex) and receive advise on how to drive in order to create less impact on the environment. In fact, thanks to a series of progressive tutorials, you can improve your score: just think that drivers who are more conscious of their “eco-responsible” driving can expect to improve their driving style by 15%, and that means: reduce CO2 emissions by 15% and see an annual saving in fuel of between 120 and 200 Euro. Furthermore, “ecoVille” has been created specifically for Fiat’s “ecoDrivers”, an on-line community where everyone can share interests and their commitment to an eco-responsible way of driving by accessing the site www.fiat.co.uk/ecodrive where there is also a video dedicated to the “ecoDrive” system. Fiat 500 and Grande Punto are the first Fiat Group vehicles to make use of “ecoDrive” and, as of today, will be available for downloading from the site and installed at no extra cost. In 2009, the system will be extended to the rest of the range equipped with Blue&Me. Lastly, thanks to a contribution from users, the “ecoDrive” application will be updated to make it even more useful. “ecoDrive” is a Blue&Me evolution, the platform developed by the Fiat Group Automobiles in conjunction with Microsoft that has already earned a great deal of recognition and reached a quota of 500,000 pieces installed in the various Group’s models in about the last two years. Talk to FiatTalk to Fiattalk innovationsChat, ask questions, rant or rave - visit our Forum.Go Search Sitemap Help Glossary Ts&Cs Privacy Fiat Vans Mobility Motor Industry Codes of Practice Log in || || Search the site About us Contact us New car deals Home News Road Tests Launches Features Gallery Insurance Used Cars New Cars Launch report: Fiat Bravo Eco review by David Finlay (2 June 2008) The 1.9-litre MultiJet turbo diesel engine which has done such excellent work in so many Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Vauxhall, Saab and Cadillac products is gradually being replaced by a more modern unit with the same name but a lower capacity. For the cost-conscious, the most important model resulting from this changeover so far is the Bravo Eco, which occupies a similar position in the Fiat line-up to the various Volkswagen BlueMotion cars and their equivalents elsewhere in the VW Group. The new 1.6 engine is being offered with maximum power outputs of 105bhp and 120bhp, and it's the 105bhp one that concerns us here. Eco versions (there are two, identical except in the amount of equipment supplied as standard) have their ECUs remapped in the interests of improved fuel economy, along with higher gear ratios, improved aerodynamics and tyres with lower rolling resistance. Fiat says there is no difference in performances compared with the non-Eco cars, so we're talking about a top speed of 116mph and 0-62mph in 11.3 seconds. More on that later: for now, the figures we're really interested in are the ones relating to fuel economy and CO2 emissions. In the other 105bhp MultiJet Bravos, these are 57.6mpg and 129g/km respectively. The various revisions to the Eco cars have a positive effect on these statistics, which improve to 62.8mpg and 119g/km. The 5.2mpg improvement in economy is good news in itself, of course, and the CO2 figure brings the Eco down from VED Band C to Band B, which for this year means an £85 reduction in car tax (£60 for the following two years) and renders it exempt from the London congestion charge as from October, assuming that there isn't a change of policy under the capital's new administration. With other eco-friendly models you have to pay a lot for this sort of improvement, but not in this case. You can't make a direct comparison for the higher-specification Dynamic model, since the only other 1.6-litre diesel Dynamic has the 120bhp engine; however, there are Eco and non-Eco versions of the same car with the Active trim level, and from that you can see that the Eco revisions add £295 to the list price. Well, that's not bad going. The first year's saving in car tax takes a substantial bite out of £295, and the improved fuel economy should deal with the rest in the first couple of thousand miles, so the Eco should prove to be the wiser buy very quickly, even if you don't take congestion charge savings into account. The only slight fly in the ointment is that although the Eco meets the current Euro 4 emissions regulations, it doesn't (unlike the other Bravo 1.6 diesels) meet the Euro 5 ones which come into force in two years' time. The reason for this is heavy with irony: achieving Euro 5 status actually means using more fuel and producing more CO2 (the regulations are concerned with limiting other, more poisonous but less taxable waste products), and in the required timescale it wasn't possible for Fiat to achieve Euro 5 with the Eco and also get under 120g/km. Something had to give, so Fiat decided to forget about Euro 5 for now and concentrate on the CO2 emissions which have an immediate impact on fuel economy and taxation. I couldn't get a Fiat representative to say this, but I suspect that a Euro 5-compliant Eco, or something like it, will be along within the next couple of years. I said I'd come back to performance, and here goes. As the figures already mention show, the Bravo Eco is not outstandingly quick in a straight line, but it feels much stronger than it actually is. That's because Fiat has devoted a lot of effort to making the 1.6 engine produce lots of power at very low revs. It develops nearly the maximum torque figure at 1500rpm (peaking 500rpm later), and the result is that a prod of the accelerator pedal produces impressive results even from such low engine speeds. This is not uncommon among diesels, of course, but the Bravo is particularly good at it. Apart from being rather good fun, this characteristic of the engine also means that the high gearing creates no ill effects - you don't, for example, have to use a lower gear than you normally would in a given situation, which would completely ruin the whole effect. There's also no problem with the other Eco feature of low rolling resistance tyres; on the absolute limit I dare say you would notice a lack of grip, but in normal driving conditions I haven't found any problems so far. As with all other Bravos, the Eco models do not score well for visibility, thanks to their thick windscreen pillars and insufficient amounts of glass at the rear. The interior isn't especially refined, though in fairness Fiat has never tried to market the Bravo as a premium car. The Eco's structure is also exactly the same as that of the other cars in the range, so the Euro NCAP test results apply here, and they're quite impressive. The Bravo scored a maximum five stars for adult occupant protection (with cautionary remarks about "some risk of injury to the driver's femurs"), three out of five for child occupant protection (marks were lost for lack of information about safety features) and a rather disappointing two out of four for pedestrian protection. As mentioned previously, there are two types of Eco. The cheaper of the two, at £14,150, is the Active, which comes with air-conditioning, remote central locking, electric front windows, a height-adjustable driver's seat, a steering wheel adjustable for both height and reach, the very well-tuned electric power steering, foglights, a trip computer, a stereo/CD player and Follow Me Home headlights. For £1000 more you get the Dynamic, which gets all-round electric windows, 16" alloy wheels, dual-zone climate control air-conditioning, cruise control, lumbar adjustment for the driver's seat, a front armrest, a leather steering wheel, Blue&Me phone connectivity and the opportunity to link an MP3 player into the audio system. Insurance is Group 6 for the Active and Group 7 for the Dynamic, though since there's no difference in the official economy and emissions figures the two cars should otherwise cost the same to run. Fiat Gallery Fiat Reviews Fiat Road Tests More Car Reviews Request brochure All the choice and model options delivered straight to you. More info Request test drive Try this car before you buy - get a test drive from your local dealer! More info Find Best Price If you know the car you want, then it's time to find the best deal. 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