Fiat Punto 1.4 GT Turbo Review

Overall Rating

Looks nice. Nice powder coated alloys on some models. Very quick can fool most especialy with the none red gt badge on the back (earlier models) lots of room inside for size. Full electrics. Cheap tax. The last models hold there price well. Very tunable, a rare car.

Fiat build quality, not as fast as a toyota starlet gt 1.3 turbo. Things are always going wrong. Faulty electrics. Very poor on fuel for a 1.4 turbo.most early models are thrashed and abused. Front tires wear very quick. Not too many good mechanics with sense that can work on them.so therefor can be expensive when things go wrong.

The Fiat Punto 1.4 GT Turbo is a good car, it is fast 0-60 standard is about 7.4sec and will pass its claimed topspeed of 127mph very easily. You can easily start to bring its 0-60 time down with a few mods. Its faster than a similar spec r5 turbo. But the r5 turbo does respond more to engine tweaks than the punto gt. The toyota starlet gt or galanza is quicker than the punto gt and uses a 1.3 turbo engine developing 133bhp. Its a lot lighter than the punto gt 0-60 is 6.8secs standerd and can be tuned a lot more than the punto gt. I'm not trying to put anyone off the punto gt as I still love the cars just dont buy a cheap one as they are bound to have things wrong with it. The last models are the best. s-t reg. The best thing about the punto gt is destroying them saxo vts's honda type r's and cossies at the lights. But after say 65mph the cossie will rip past you. But who cares you still left them. The punto gt also seems to have a poor suspension and spring set up. Which makes it feel just like a 1.1 punto and it cant realy corner like a renault 5 gt turbo can. So aftermarket springs and shocks are very important. I have a pulsar gtir and I still love the punto gt to bits - It's still one of the best small turbo cars about.

Members' Comments onspliff1star's Review

• l1uka on 25th Jul 2005

  Your chatting rubbish, i have a Civic Type R and no way a Punto GT Turbo can beat it. Type R would have it any day.
  My Type R goes over 150mph which i doubt a punto can do.
  Also at take off 0-60 for type r is alot quicker than the punto

• spliff1star on 26th Jul 2005

  hold on fiat punto gt1 1.4 8v turbo 135bhp
  0-60: 7.4secs topspeed 128mph
  honda civic type r 2.0 16v 197bhp
  0-60: 6.7secs topspeed 143mph
  
  these are taken from fiats punto gt car specs and evo magazine, whatcar mag and parkers.now every body knows cars can do over the topspeed so not doubting ur civic type r cant do 150mph.the punto gt can do 140mph 12mph of paper spec.
  
  fiat punto gt3 limited 1.4 8v turbo 152bhp
  0-60: 6.7secs topspeed 135mph
  
  now fink about it ur civic type r is spose to be 7nth hundreth of a sec faster than a punto gt3 to 60mph when it has 66bhp more than the gt 1.so the civic is not evan gona be 1 second infront.against a punto gt3 limited the 0-60 is exactly the same as a type r.and the gt3 will beat it all the way up to 120mph.i never said a punto was gt was faster than a civic type r top end.but u obviously aint driven a punto gt.remember its a 1.4 and you have almost 70bhp more on the gt1.and gt3 limited only has 152bhp and a civic type r cant beat that until top end speed. a 197bhp punto gt would make any civic type r look very stupid.and there are other smaller engine jap cars that a type r canot beat. my opinion i dont rate civic type rs.well the new ones.the civic type r in the previous shape is better as its a smaller engine and has near enough same power and is faster.

• l1uka on 26th Jul 2005

  Civic Type R would easily beat the punto as the magazine details are usually slower than it really is.
  The 0-60 is about 6 seconds.
  Type r would easily beat your Punto. As tenths of seconds is alot when racing.
  The fact is you have problay raced some one who dont no what there doing, or you aint raced one at all.
  I have beaten a Punto 1.4 gt turbo was a T-reg, so unless your running 180bhp you aint going to be beating a type r at take off.

• spliff1star on 28th Jul 2005

  no civic stock type r does 0-60 in 6 secs. its 6.7 a type r is not 8 hundreths of a second faster than a focus rs.its 0-60 is the same as a seat leon cupra r. no naturally aspirated 2.0 engine is doing 0-60 in 6 secs. i have a nissan pulsar and that has just over 360bhp and in standerd that does 0-60 in 5.7secs and would destroy any stock type r.tell me what magazine you got that spec from and page no. i can easily tell u a few.the punto gt limited is a t reg model and is a limited edition because it has a biger turbo manifold is different and bigger intercooler.has more torque than a punto gt1 2 and 3.you obviously dont no anyfing about punto gts? its not all about the amount of bhp a car has.all about torque with the punto gt limited.civic type r!!! no chance

• l1uka on 29th Jul 2005

  If u got over 360bhp in your pulsa how come you only getting 0-60 in 5.7.
  I have got a 343bhp Bmw M3 2004, i does 0-60 just under 5 seconds. The M3 weighs alot more than a Pulsa so it should go alot faster than an M3.
  Think you got somthing wrong with your car if you only get o-60 5.7

• spliff1star on 1st Aug 2005

  you have not read my comment correct. i said a standard nissan pulsar does 0-60 in 5.7secs standard meaning its standard 220bhp mine does it in about 4.5secs.my car is perfectly fine.

• daniels2005 on 2nd Sep 2005

  http://www.puntopower.com/video/challenges/crail_ctr2.mpeg
  
  Punto GT Vs Civic type R, the punto is pushin out 155 bhp n bein driven by a woman! Fair enough the CTR reels it back in near the end but the Fiat Punto has such a better launch! And it still pulls on the CTR in second gear!

• spliff1star on 15th Jan 2006

  the video says it all but both starts did seem abit slow by both cars. the type r does come back and will beat the punto top end speed but if you are comparing a 155bhp punto against a 197bhp civic type r and the punto gt still gives it trouble...??? i have just purchased another punto gt along side my galanza v. its running 173bhp.

• YELLAGOD on 30th Aug 2006

  HIYA MATE, MY MATE HAD AN S REG PUNTO SO I BELIEVE THAT IS THE GT3?? IT HAD AN APOLLO IND KIT, CHIPPED AND UPRATED CLUTCH BUT HAD NO CHANCE AGAINST A STANDARD VTS NO MATTER ABOUT A TYPE R!! HE GOT WHOOPED, WITHOUT LSD THE TYRES JUST SPIN SO I DONT KNOW HOW THE HELL THAT LTD EDITION PUNTO PUTS IT DOWN, I PERSONALLY OWN A SCOOB STI PUSHING 350 BHP, 280FT TORQUE, 0-60 IN 4.6 AND A EVO 6 RUNNING 320FT TORQUE, IF YOU KNOW UR STUFF THEN YOU'LL KNOW THAT THE FQ400 ONLY HAS 340FT OF TORQUE AND HITS 0-60 IN 3.5, I HAVE ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE CLAIMING THEY CAN BEAT ME AND I WOULD GLADLY COME DOWN AND RACE AGAINST UR PULSAR AND PUNTO GT??

• spliff1star on 5th Nov 2006

  I have only just seen the email about your comment. Firstly, the Punto GT is gone. I sold it as Pulsar is more reliable. Every car is different, and you can have two identically tuned cars but one may drive completely different to the other. As for the 1 your friend had?? Well, I can't comment on it. I am talking about experience here, not just on paper. I have had cars like the Punto GT that have shamed more so-called faster cars, like the 2.0 Civic type R. The thing is, people get upset when they have a car which they paid a lot of cash for, and something that's worth a fraction of there car is quicker. Where a car can shame another up to 60mph or 80mph, the other car can shame it from 60mph or 80mph. The Nissan Pulsar - I no longer own that, as I have got an Audi S3 now, but even the Nissan being as powerful as it was, there were still other cars that could beat it with no problems. It's down to the driver as well as the car. My mate has just bought the new Honda Integra type R, and he made a Focus ST 2.5 driver look very stupid. He even raced a Evo 8, and that driver said "that's the best race" he's ever had so far, and his Evo has a lot more torque and power than the Integra. We could all be here all day saying this car can't beat that car, but the fact is, it boils down to experience. I've done it, others may not have, so whatever you see happen that's what you think and know. So like on here, you write a review or make comments. My A3 is standard at the moment, but still quite quick. But don't think because of how much torque or power you have your car is untouchable.