What's the Fiat Palio like, with a diesel engine under the hood?
There's something about diesel. Once the almost exclusive preserve of commercial vehicles and Mahindra jeeps, this propellant has been finding increasing acceptance of late, in the mainstream passenger car segment. For good reason of course.
Whether it's eco-friendly or not may still be debatable, but what's for sure is that diesel is a lot cheaper than petrol! And when it saves you ten rupees on every litre of fuel bought, a diesel engine's noise and vibration suddenly become bearable for many people. It's not only the penny-pinchers who opt for diesel these days.
With increasing levels of refinement and sophistication, the good old oil-burner is going places even with those who don't really care how much they spend on tanking up on fuel. We, at Motoring, have loved the Hyundai Accent CRDi in recent times, and even our long-term Scorpio has been nothing less than brilliant. Driveability, once the bane of diesels because of their excessive NVH levels, is now their selling point.
Status quo?
Which brings us to the Palio D, the new diesel-powered Fiat. Last-generation Fiat diesels
