The Compact Platform has been developed by engineers of the Fiat

Fiat

FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

 group for medium and large car

Čar

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s with front wheel drive or four wheel drive

Four Wheel Drive

The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive or just FWD, was founded in 1909 in Clintonville, Wisconsin, as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich.-History:...

. The first application using platform is Alfa Romeo Giulietta unveiled in 2010. Fiat has invested about 100 million euro

Euro

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s in the construction of the Compact platform.

Specification

Developed in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

, Italy, the new Compact platform was designed to be adaptable to future cars of the Fiat group as well as to future Chrysler

Chrysler

Chrysler Group LLC is a multinational automaker headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA. Chrysler was first organized as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925....

 Group vehicles. The C-Platform (used by Fiat Stilo

Fiat Stilo

The Fiat Stilo is a small family car available as a 3-door and a 5-door hatchback, as well as an estate , produced by the Italian automaker Fiat Automobiles. The Stilo 3-door and 5-door were launched in 2001 to replace the Fiat Bravo/Brava, with the Stilo MultiWagon following in 2002...

, Bravo

Fiat Bravo (2007)

The Fiat Bravo is a small family car introduced to the press in January 2007 in Rome, and later in the Geneva Motor Show in 2007.- History :The Bravo is produced in Fiat's plant in Piedimonte S. Germano. The car was designed by Fiat Style Centre. Austrian automotive company Magna Steyr engineered a...

 and Lancia Delta

Lancia Delta

The Lancia Delta is a small family car produced by Italian automaker Lancia with the first generation being produced between 1979 and 1994, the second generation running from 1993 until 1999, and the third generation Delta entering production in 2008. It was first shown inFrankfurt Motor Show in 1979...

) was used as starting point. Fiat engineers developed a new high performance platform that uses only a central part of the floor from the old C-Platform . The frame is made for 84% of high-strength steel (the old C-platform was made for 65% high-strength steel), also 4% of the structure is made of aluminum. The front suspension

Suspension

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 uses MacPherson

MacPherson strut

The MacPherson strut is a type of car suspension system which uses the axis of a telescopic damper as the upper steering pivot. It is widely used in modern vehicles and named after Earle S. MacPherson, who developed the design.-History:...

 Evo struts made of aluminium and is 4 kilograms (8.8 lb) lighter than steel ones (used eg. in Fiat Bravo), the rear suspension uses independent multilink suspension, each consists of 2 lateral links and a prominent longitudinal arm which mounts the hub and spring, it is made of aluminium and is (10 kg (22 lb) lighter than steel ones. Using aluminium the total combined weight saving in suspension bits is 14 kilograms. Both the framework for the rear seats and the magnesium alloy crossmember lost 35 per cent in weight compared with earlier cars.

The platform offers compact transverse engine

Engine

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 at the front, front-wheel drive is available but it is also the integral (4WD). The total weight of the platform in the standard version (on the compact models) is 174 kilograms (383.6 lb). The long wheelbase version is called Compact Wide (abbreviated C-Wide) and will be available on future models of the Chrysler sedan

Sedan

A sedan or saloon car is a passenger car in a three-box configuration with A, B & C-pillars and principal volumes articulated in separate compartments for engine, passenger and cargo...

 like the Dodge Hornet

Dodge Hornet

The Dodge Hornet is a concept car mini MPV designed and developed by Dodge and revealed in 2006. Dodge's first attempt at building a car this small, the car was expected to be released in 2010, but following the 2009 financial crisis and the restructuring of the Chrysler Group, the concept was...

 or the next Alfa Romeo Giulia

Alfa Romeo Giulia

The Alfa Romeo Giulia is an Alfa Romeo automobile. Alfa was one of the first manufacturers to put a powerful engine in a light-weight car for mainstream production. The Giulia weighed about . The car was equipped with a light alloy twin overhead camshaft four-cylinder engine, similar to that of...

. Thanks to the floor of the interchangeable modules Compact is suitable for vehicles of different lengths and can reach up to 4.92 metres (16.1 ft) in length. During the design it has been spared much of the dynamic features in a compact platform that could adapt especially in sports cars like Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of cars. Founded as A.L.F.A. on June 24, 1910, in Milan, the company has been involved in car racing since 1911, and has a reputation for building expensive sports cars...

.

The engine range combined with the platform consists of the compact four-cylinder petrol 1.4 Fire

Fully Integrated Robotised Engine

The FIRE is a series of automobile engines from Fiat. It was designed by Italian design firm Rodolfo Bonetto . It is constructed by robot assembly plants to reduce costs....

, 1.4 Multiair

Multiair

Multiair is an electro-hydraulic variable valve actuation technology controlling air intake in petrol or diesel engines . It is compatible with both naturally aspirated and forced-induction engines....

 and 1,750 TBi turbocharged engine and the diesel 1.6 Multijet and 2.0 Multijet. In the future, the Pentastar V6 petrol will be offered also. Fiat and Chrysler plans to build about 1 million vehicles a year by 2014 based on the platform.

Vehicles based on Fiat Compact platform

• 2010 Alfa Romeo Giulietta
• 2012 Dodge Hornet
  Dodge Hornet
  The Dodge Hornet is a concept car mini MPV designed and developed by Dodge and revealed in 2006. Dodge's first attempt at building a car this small, the car was expected to be released in 2010, but following the 2009 financial crisis and the restructuring of the Chrysler Group, the concept was...