Italian styling
 

With its elegant, distinctive styling, today’s Nuova Croma is even more dynamic, thanks to a number of styling changes introduced by the Fiat Style Centre. To start with, the front, which confirms the brand’s intention of building up the new ‘family feeling’ introduced with the Grande Punto and reiterated on the Bravo; it pays tribute to the great Italian motoring tradition, without stylistic exaggeration or excesses.

For example, like the sporty GTs of the past, the car features drop-shaped elongated headlights with an original flair and distinctive Italian styling, highlighted by a stylish burnished finish. The design of the front air inlet and the grille is also new (the latter has wide links and fine Chrome Shadow painting, and incorporates the new Fiat logo introduced with the Bravo).

From the side, the designers have accentuated the luminosity of the interior, drawing attention to the details of the side by inserting new chrome elements in the window frames and on the rubbing strips. These details, together with the painted black pillars, heighten the stylistic elegance of the Nuova Croma. At the same time, other styling elements – the new light clusters, the wings, the rear spoiler and the new sideskirts – give the car a lower, sleeker profile. The elegant, dynamic Fiat Nuova Croma also has a new rear bumper.
 

This is partly embossed and partly painted the same colour as the body and the bumper is very similar to an air extractor, and increases the sporty look of the rear.

We should underline that all the styling changes do not detract from the sensation of great robustness and roominess that the Croma has always communicated, confirmed by its generous dimensions: it is 478 cm long, 177 cm wide and 160 cm high, with a wheelbase of 270 cm, measurements that produce an extraordinary amount of roominess on board. Very briefly, the Nuova Croma is in line with the competition where length and width are concerned, and about 5 centimetres taller, while it is well above the average for this segment in terms of interior dimensions.

The interior of the car has also received a number of large and small styling changes that modify its look. The passenger compartment obviously inherits the distinctive traits of the previous model, greatly appreciated by customers, that make it a perfect blend of elegant shapes and well-being on board, worthy of an Italian flagship. The new Fiat Station Wagon combines these features with other novelties that include a new steering wheel, a richer, more elegant instrument panel, new cloth and leather upholstery on the seats (coordinated with the new carpeting) depending on the specification, and new mouldings treated with an original Wenghe effect.