The new SUV that FIAT will deal with in the B segment has just been hunted in its first tests in the north of Sweden, taking advantage of the winter tests. Camouflaged as a mule based on the Opel Mokka, this is the first cornerstone of the Italian brand’s new range.
Despite the fact that most of the development of the Italian FCA models takes place in the transalpine country, as we have seen, these unprecedented spy photos They show the first model of the new era that the Turinese brand is facing. In the Arctic Circle, heTesting of FIAT’s future B-SUV has just started.
The new model sports the usual camouflage of the Italian brand’s models, despite the fact that the Opel Mokka’s headlights and headlights are hidden under the black plastics and canvas. The increased height of the body to the ground is very evident, and the shape of the silhouette also follows the line of the German model. But the snapshots show a trapezoid-shaped front grille, different from the German one, and more along the lines of the panel that presented the FIAT Concept Centoventi presented in the framework of the Geneva Motor Show 2019.
The new model will replace the FIAT Panda 4×4 in segment B
The Italian is in a first phase, a curious mule in which they are adjusting the technical specifications of a completely new platform for the Italians. The “CMP” architecture of the French giant PSA, and which also supports the B-SUV of the lightning brand, but with a squarer design which we will see in production prototypes in a few months.
Olivier François, President of the Italian brand, has already confirmed that the Centoventi concept will give rise to a family of models with their own personality and conveniently differentiated from the 500 with the aim of cannibalizing itself. A range of four bodies that will give continuity to the Panda saga, but each one with a name. And the first to arrive is this B-SUV, which has also been confirmed to be one of the three that will leave the Tychy factory in Polandalong with the “baby-Renegade” and the replacement for the Alfa Romeo MiTo.
With a range of three-cylinder engines and up to 1.2 literswill only be offered with blocks of electrified gasoline and a fully electric variant which will arrive in 2023, a year after this B-SUV is presented throughout this year 2022.