Fiat Punto II

The Fiat Punto II is the second generation of the Fiat Punto, a versatile small city car built by Fiat from 1999 to 2012. It came out in the summer of 1999 for the company's centenary and sold well in Europe, with annual production of 500,000 cars. It was offered as a three-door and a five-door, the first with sharp, angular lines and the second more traditional, and it had the largest cabin in a class that mainly held the Peugeot 206 and Renault Clio II. It launched with four petrol engines and three diesels, and a June 2003 facelift brought a large new grille and the 1.3 JTD, 1.4 16v and 1.9 JTD engines. From October 2005 the Grande Punto took over as the main model, and the older car stayed on sale as the cheaper Punto Classic until 2012. In Serbia the Zastava plant assembled a version as the Z10 by Fiat.