Fiat presents the Aegean, successor to the Bravo and Linea
- Fiat presented the successor to the Bravo and Linea. With a length of 4.50m, the sedan model from C-segment , called Aegeagoes on sale in Turkey from November 2015 and in Europe from 2016 onwards. The vehicle range will be completed next year with a shorter hatchback version to replace the Bravo and an estate version that will replace the break Stilo that was terminated in 2008. The platform is the same as the Alfa-Romeo Giulietta and its derivatives for the US and Chinese markets (Dodge Dart, Fiat Viaggio / Ottima).
- The production of the Aegean will be concentrated in the Fiat Tofas plant in Bursa, Turkey. This model announces the come back of the Fiat brand on the C segment market, after removing the Bravo last year. The Linea was in turn derived from a segment B model, the Fiat Punto.
- The Bursa plant has a capacity of 400 000 vehicles per year, while it produced only 230 000 units in 2014, and it will lose the production of the Opel Combo, the Citroën Nemo and Peugeot Bipper at the end of 2016 since GM and PSA announced the end of their agreements with Fiat on these vehicles.
- The Italian carmaker can expect at most a production of 200 000 units annually for the different variants of the Aegea, the 200 000 additional units being assigned to the production of different variants of the Fiorino and Doblo will continue to be assembled in this plant.
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