An all-new body and chassis in 1999 that kept the outgoing Punto’s basic silhouette, with a new torsion-beam rear axle and, for the first time on this car, a Fiat Wish hardtop-convertible concept shown alongside it that never reached production.[1] It stayed in production for eleven years, well past the 2005 launch of its own successor, the Grande Punto, selling in parallel as the cut-price “Punto Classic” until 2010.
Wikipedia’s engine table for this generation is unusually complete: metric top speed, a 0-100 km/h time and a combined consumption figure are given directly for every engine, none of them converted from an imperial source, a rare case in this catalogue where nothing needed reconstructing from a US or mixed-unit original.