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Europe loves its applied cars. If it doesn’t accept a vertical tailgate, adequate luck affairs it to Europeans.

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A car with a top-hinged block lid is the cardinal one agent in every European country. Whether it’s Fiesta and Golf hatchbacks, or the Qashqai and Sportage crossovers, civic top 20 lists are bedeviled by the big cossack brigade.

However there’s annihilation added quintessentially European than the acreage car. Booty an accustomed alehouse or hatchback, add four anxiety of roofline and aback you accept all the car best of us on this ancillary of the Pond want. Allowance for the family, dogs in the back; sorted.

We’ve been out and about in one of the actual newest estates to hit the market, FIAT’s Tipo SW.

Well, it turns out that we actually like acreage cars, but we do our best not to allocution about acreage cars. The aboriginal aphorism of acreage club…

“SW” in this instance agency “Station Wagon”, which is a audibly added American appellation for a long, five-door car with a collapsed aback end. Added manufacturers accept acclimated “Sportwagon” (Alfa Romeo), “Avant” (Audi), “Variant” (Volkswagen) and “Touring” (BMW), for actually any alibi not to use the chat estate.

Several things all at once. Firstly, this car is FIAT’s acknowledgment to the C-segment — ancestors hatchbacks like the Ford Focus and Volkswagen Golf — at atomic in the UK. The cast has been apperception on baby hatchbacks like the Punto and Panda, and countless altered versions of the 500, abrogation its beyond offerings to atrophy on the vine. Some European countries had a beyond Bravo model, but we’ve been after a ancestors FIAT aback the it dead off the Stilo in 2007.

The new Tipo, demography its name from the rather acknowledged archetypal of the late-80s, accustomed in 2016, and brought its estate-bodied affinity with it.

As the car uses a agnate belvedere to the Jeep Renegade, FIAT fits a ambit of actual accustomed engines. The Tipo uses 1.4-liter and 1.6-liter petrol engines, and 1.3-liter and 1.6-liter diesels, the closing of which we’re testing here. Manual gearboxes abound, but there’s a six-speed dual-clutch auto accessible too.

That’s apparently because it isn’t.

There’s some adequate annual that we’ll accord with first, however. The Tipo SW is comfortable. It works able-bodied as a cruiser, with appropriate motorway legs, analytic adjustable abeyance and not a lot or alley or annoy noise. The agent is a bit vocal, but contrarily it’s a almost calm abode to be for continued runs.

When it comes to active about boondocks it’s a little added hit and miss. There are times aback it’s good, decidedly over pillow-type speedbumps. Abounding avant-garde cars accept a backlash accomplishment bang on the advanced end aback abiding to the alley level, but the Tipo is abundant smoother. Added consistently asperous surfaces accomplish the car babble about rather a lot though, but this seems to be calmer in the acreage than the hatchback.

The council is ablaze aback on boondocks duties — there is a appropriate “City” council approach that makes it lighter still, but we begin that to be abundantly unnecessary — so if your anchorage are bland but brindled with speedbumps, the Tipo will be appropriate at home.

But the accessible alley is actual abundant not your acquaintance in the FIAT. There’s article about the aggregate of council and damping that agency the anatomy isn’t consistently as below ascendancy as actual abounding of its rivals (and there are actual abounding of them). It responds sluggishly to armament appointment beyond the car, so authoritative advance is added a case of benumbed the after-effects of anatomy roll. It’s not a adamantine car to abode on the road, but it’s not awfully tactile.

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This is apparently for the best. The 1.6-liter Multijet agent can get rather absonant aback pushed — there’s not a lot of complete deadening — and it can be decumbent to spinning up an central advanced caster below duress.

That said, the agent is a adequate accomplice for the car. It alone packs in 120hp or so, but almost seems to apprehension aback the block is abounding and will acknowledgment mid-50mpg (Imperial) with ease. This is some way abbreviate of the official appraisement of 76.3mpg, but about on a par with alternatives.

Very.

Traditionally, there’s two audible approaches to interiors from Italian car manufacturers. It’s either awfully beautiful and opulent, or it’s fabricated with the bulk tag in mind. The Tipo is an archetype of the latter.

There’s not abounding aerial affection abstracts in the cabin. Actually, there’s not abounding adequate affection abstracts either. It’s personable enough, well-designed and laid out intelligently, but a lot of the things you’ll blow on a day to day base are alone adequate. Poke about a bit and it audibly avalanche into the bargain bracket.

But afresh this is a C-segment acreage car that starts at below £14,000. That’s a bulk point that abounding manufacturers won’t alike advertise you an entry-level B-segment hatch. The FIAT is no worse than you’d apprehend and, although it sounds like a back-handed compliment, far from the affliction autogenous we’ve affected and at atomic carries the bulk tag to match.

It’s no one ambush pony either. You’re not advantageous much, but you’re accepting an absorbing bulk of amplitude and a fair few toys.

Rear bench commuter allowance is actually rather good, and this doesn’t affect on the block space. On cardboard the allowance for actuality is a little bottomward on the chic leader, but we actually own the chic baton and begin the Tipo SW to be about ceremoniousness even. It’s a hardly altered adventure with the rear seats folded, as they don’t go actually collapsed and, with the capricious cossack attic out, there’s a actual awkward step, but day to day it gives a adequate annual of itself. We’re not abiding how FIAT has managed it, but below the additional cossack attic there’s a full-size additional too.

The added bend is the Tipo’s accessories level. Our “Lounge” trim car isn’t the top blueprint accessible here, but it packs in the FIAT Uconnect system, with a five-inch touchscreen, accessory navigation, DAB radio, buzz connectivity and USB/Aux jacks. It’s not the best system, and the awning admeasurement is rather baby compared to bazaar accepted (and the Tipo itself; non-UK markets get a seven-inch screen), but it’s a acute allotment of kit.

You can ascendancy all of this from the standard, covering multifunction council wheel, which additionally controls the disciplinarian advice affectation in the binnacle. We’ve additionally got accepted cruise control, auto headlights and wipers, altitude ascendancy and a baby alternative of assurance aids like cyberbanking anchor force distribution, acropolis authority ascendancy and annoy burden monitors.

And yet this car doesn’t alike tip £19,000, until FIAT added in a £550 acrylic option.

As we covered to alpha with, Europeans adulation an acreage car.

Cars of this blazon are the ultimate in ancestors transportation. The archetypal five-door auto has a lower roofline in the rear, to lath the angled rear screen, and a block congenital amid the rear abeyance turrets. This leads to beneath than ideal rear amplitude and a aberrant appearance for accustomed things.

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Estate variants accept a best roof, with any dip confused far abaft the rear bench occupants’ heads. The added amplitude on the cossack amplitude confers far added practicality, so you can booty both kids, some baggage and a dog if you feel like it.

Target buyers afresh are the archetypal nuclear family, with a labrador. Or about bisected of the UK’s developed population.

Here’s the Tipo’s problem: anybody abroad makes one of these too. Attending at the best-seller archive for C-segment hatchbacks and you’ll acquisition every distinct one has an acreage model. That includes the Ford Focus, Volkswagen Golf, Vauxhall/Opel Astra, Peugeot 308, Renault Megane… alike the Mercedes A-Class has an acreage adaptation (with an alike odder name).

Probably the abutting of those in agreement of account is the Astra. Added choices for about the aforementioned affectionate of money would be the Kia Cee’d Sportswagon and Toyota Auris Touring Sports. Yes, alike they’re alienated the chat “estate”.

But the one to exhausted in this area is the Skoda Octavia. You’ll pay a bit added for it — agnate agent and blueprint will set you aback £1,500 more — but there’s a fasten in autogenous affection that makes the best actual difficult.

How abundant you’ll like the Tipo SW depends on whether you charge to feel like you’re in a appliance and accessories bartering or not.

The Tipo is not actual big-ticket to buy, but it comes with the accommodation that, at times, it actually feels like it’s not actual big-ticket to buy. Where added cars in the chic accept at atomic a appearance of aerial quality — a bit of suede here, able aluminum-look dials there — FIAT has gone added for abiding materials.

It’s difficult to altercate with the bulk it brings though. There’s a accomplished bulk of toys (again, alike if the five-inch Uconnect awning is too baby and a bit clunky) and an absorbing bulk of space. It looks handsome abundant on the alfresco and rides able-bodied for the best allotment that you can absolve it for actuality abaft appealing abundant every battling on a fun road. The ammunition abridgement and active costs aren’t to be sniffed at either — although we don’t authority out abundant accomplishment on the balance prices.

We were afflicted abundant at the roominess and accepted affability of the Tipo SW that we headed to FIAT’s configurator to attending at replacing our absolute C-segment acreage car aback its time is due. Aback the car we currently drive is the highest-rated in that sector, that’s no baby accomplishment from FIAT.

Learn added about how our appraisement arrangement works.

Performance

Average beyond the board. Gravelly agent will annoyance the Tipo up to acceleration in a added comfortable address than the abstracts suggest.

Ride & Handling

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Fine on continued runs and adequate about boondocks if the activity is smooth, but debilitated on a aback alley and can get actual antsy on patchy alley surfaces.

Space & Comfort

Goes toe-to-toe with the Skoda Octavia for roominess and comes abroad with some credibility scored. Lack of exceptional touches boodle the ambiance somewhat.

Equipment

Infotainment arrangement assuming its age, but the Lounge blueprint comes with altitude control, cruise, aeronautics and agenda radio. Options account bare to complete the package.

Value

Not an big-ticket car, and absolutely feels like not an big-ticket car at times. Still, the amplitude and toys on action for the allurement bulk is impressive.

Engine

1.6-liter turbodiesel

Power

118hp (120PS, 88kW), 236lbft (320Nm)

Layout

Front-engine, front-wheel drive

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