FIAT Light Commercial Vehicles Spa (IT)

Via G. Agnelli 200
10135 Torino (TO) - Italia

Fiat Professional is the brand for commercial vehicles manufactured by Fiat Light Commercial Vehicles Spa, a company 100 percent owned by Fiat Group Automobiles Spa. The range includes the following models: Ducato, Scudo Fiorino, Doblò, Strada. There are aslo van version derived from cars. Dedicated to passengers transport are Ducato and Scudo. The first offered in variants Combi, Minibus, Panorama and Schoolbus with capacity ranging from nine to 16 seats of the minibus version up to 30 for the schoobus. Scudo transports a maximum of eight passengers plus driver and is available in Combi and Panorama.
Sales of Fiat Professional vehicles have exceeded 430,000 units worldwide (2008 data supplied by the manufacturer) with a market share of 43 percent in Italy and 12 in Europe. Production is based in eight factories in the world among which the factory Sevel Val di Sangro, the largest in Europe for the production of light commercial vehicles. The Fiat Professional sales network has over 1,400 distributors in Europe and more than 7,500 service point.
The ancestors of Fiat commercial vehicles dating from the beginning of last century. These were two omnibus and a motorized little trailer for firefighters presented the 1901 Milan exhibition by the newly formed Italian Automobile Factory in Turin. Two years later the first truck was presented: the Fiat 24 HP which took its name from its horsepower steam engine. The production of commercial vehicles started in 1911. Several models made the history of Fiat commercial vehicles. Of these, the light and handly 508 Balilla Van in 1932, the Fiat 621, the first truck with diesel engine, the Fiorino, first Italian van derivated from the 127 car. The most famous of all is still the Ducato, revolutionary van produced since 1981 until now.
In the Fiat commercial production a milestone is 1975 following the unbundling of from industrial means from cars manufacture and the birth of Iveco. In 1978 Fiat and PSA (Peugeot-Citroen) signed an agreement for the design and manufacture of a new van, the Fiat 242 which will have significant impact on later versions, in particularly Ducato. It was so constituted Sevel South, European Light Vehicles Society. Another key step is the creation of the Commercial Vehicles division Fiat Commercial Vehicles division (Fiat LCV) and the creation in 2007 of Fiat Professional, which opens a new millennium of commercial products from the House of Turin.