The charm of the bygone era. The joy of beautiful driving dynamics. The charm of simplicity. Gone but not forgotten. For the sixth iteration of Flaunt Your Ride, we bring you an OEM-spec untouched 2006 Fiat Palio 1.6 GTX, which is the cleanest and the meanest in India.
In the year 2000, there were not many choices when it came to hatchbacks. You must choose among the awkward-looking Santro, Zens or the Maruti Suzuki 800. Being the first hot hatch of India, the Palio came like a breath of fresh air.
As Featured on TeamBhp: 2006 Fiat Palio 1.6 Sport: 16 years & 67,000 km up – Team-BHP.
Being way ahead in terms of performance, the GTX came with a 16-valve, 100-horsepower, 1.6-litre engine that was a hoot to drive at that time, and it still is. An empty stretch will allow you to unleash all its one hundred horses, revving away to 7400 rpm of gloriously crude sonorous harmony belted out from the torque motor eschewed by Borla and now enhanced with a timing advancement tune by wolf moto performance.
This 2006 Palio has been rejuvenated, and it goes like what a brand new patio should. The red falcon is a remarkable beast, take this out today and be astounded by the plainness it offered 18 years ago.
The Fiat name may have disappeared from India; however, their beautiful cars stay on our shore. The days of low-slung, straight-line, aerodynamic, ergonomically sound formats are gone. You have odd cakeboxes, pompous double-storey buildings on wheels, and an overdose of out-of-imagination creases. Take this out today and be amazed at the simplicity it offered 18 years ago.
The interior inside is ergonomically sound. They make you active and exercise. Everything is hard-buttoned, nothing is automated, and everything is plain old-school manual. And a perfect rendition of a creative sketch of a poignant procedure.
The pin-sharp steering remains a delight, and so does the stability, and the thrill of heal and toe, though its roots dating back to 1996 cannot be betrayed. Modern cars are becoming much safer, but you have some charm of driving cars from the forgotten era like this.
