Fiat Engineering is Supreme

Fiat diesel engines don't use timing belts that can break or skip on their
sprockets and instantly destroy the engine. Instead they rely on
time-proven gear drive camshafts. That is just one of many examples of the
Italian no-compromise approach to all things mechanical.

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Yes. NOISY gears, taken right from the middle ages. Da Vinci designed
it for them.

Truth is that they don't know how to make a belt that can last in those
egg-beaters they make. And they haven't figured out chain and sprocket
technology yet.

Fiat.

Fix It Again Tony.

Their cars are too good and well-built to be sold in the USA I suppose.

 

Italian engineering looks good, even great, but the quality or detailed
design....who knows?

The mechanism of the remote-controlled electrically-opening drive gates in
our little block is made in Italy by a company that appears to dominate the
UK market for this sort of thing, and works fine.

But for bigger, more complex machines? One evil tongue (not Italian)
suggested this problem (great looks, poor engg) exists even in my field of
certain pharmaceutical process machines, where one of the Seven Sisters is
Italian. And a second, small competitor has some really bad design
elements, though when you see their machines at exhibitions they look
lovely.

(About the process machines I am only commenting about detailed design
features - I have heard nothing negative about reliability. Till recently I
was selling Canadian-made machines.)

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Maybe you're saying that Fiat doesn't know how to make gears properly,
but there is nothing inherently inferior about driving cams with gears -
in fact it is the absolute superior bullet-proof method. Think of the
cost savings over the life of a vehicle of not having to replace a
timing belt (or chain if it is stupidly used to drive a water pump -
which does wear out). And I don't think gears are any more noisy than a
timing chain. People always say that the disadvantage of a timing chain
is that they are noisy. As the owner of both 2.7L and 3.2L 2nd gen.
Concordes I can attest that not only is my 2.7 (uses a timing chain)
extremely quiet, it is quieter than the 3.2 (uses a timing belt).

 

Ah, yes, the good old Fiat 124. Timing belt. Valves meeting
pistons. Disposable car when that happens. Sigh..... /mark