Fiat Siena

The Fiat Siena is a subcompact car that the Italian manufacturer Fiat produced from 1996 to 2021, the four-door sedan version of the Fiat Palio supermini designed for developing countries. It was launched in Argentina in late 1996 and in Brazil in August 1997 as Type 178, because hatchbacks were selling so strongly in those markets, and it was built in many countries. The original range used Fiasa and Fire 1.0 to 1.6 litre petrol engines, and a facelift by Giorgetto Giugiaro of Italdesign in 2000 added 16-valve engines. In 2002 a similar car for Europe, the Fiat Albea, replaced it in markets such as Poland and Turkey. Fiat released a second generation in 2012 as the Grand Siena, built at Betim in Brazil and Cordoba in Argentina with flexible engines for gasoline and ethanol. It sold over 800,000 units in Brazil in 14 years, but was never marketed in Italy.