Giorgetto Giugiaro designed this car twice, in a sense: he pitched the shape to Renault first, for what became the Clio, and when Renault passed on it he brought the same design to Fiat instead.[1] It won European Car of the Year for 1995 against the Volkswagen Polo, and spanned an unusually wide range for a supermini: a 55,000-unit Bertone-built cabriolet at one end, a 136 PS turbocharged GT capable of 7.9 seconds to 100 km/h at the other.
The GT’s output fell twice more across the car’s six-year run, from 136 PS to 133 then 130, without the article specifying exactly what changed each time; only the original, most powerful tune is recorded here as a trim, with the other two noted rather than each given a full spec of their own.