page_title: Fiat Marea
section_title: Brazil
hierarchical_section_title: Fiat Marea / Brazil
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Fiat Marea Weekend
context_page_description: The Fiat Marea was a small family car available as a saloon and an estate, produced by the Italian automaker Fiat. Launched in September 1996, the Marea models were essentially different body styles of Fiat's hatchback offerings, the Bravo and Brava. The Marea replaced the earlier Tipo based Fiat Tempra, as well as the larger Croma.
  While the Fiat Stilo Multiwagon was the successor of the wagon version, the Marea Weekend, the Fiat Linea replaced the saloon version in 2007. The car became officially available from 11 September 1996.
context_section_description: The Marea was introduced in 1998 onto the Brazilian market with only one engine: the 2.0 20v. Due to Brazilian production taxes the 2.0 20v engine had its electronic fuel injection remapped to limit the engine power to 128 bhp (95 kW) in the Marea SX and ELX models of 1999. 
  The engine retained its full power (142 bhp) on the more expensive Marea HLX model. 
  Simply exchanging the SX or ELX fuel injection chip with the HLX chip would bring back the original engine power. Fiat initially claimed it to be untrue explaining that other modifications had been made in the SX/ELX models for cost savings, but this was revealed to be false.
  In 2000, the 2.0 20v engine was replaced with the 2.4 20v (160 bhp) engine in the ELX and HLX model, and the SX model started using the 1.8 16v engine (130 bhp).
  Later the 2.0 20v engine was dropped and the 1.6 16v (105 bhp) engine was introduced; this engine was the only one produced for model year 2007, when the Marea production has been discontinued. All engines for the Fiat Marea in Brazil were petrol based, with no diesel variants. This is due to federal legislation prohibiting diesel powered passenger vehicles, effective since 1976.
  There is also a 2.0 20V Turbo (Garrett TB28/10) with 182 bhp, sold from 1999 to 2006.
caption: Rear view of the Fiat Marea Weekend
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