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Friday, 11 June 2004



Exterior

  • New-design bumpers front and rear, radiator grille now features four (previously three) ribs

  • Side rub strips as standard

  • Alloy rims for ELEGANCE and AVANTGARDE and new-design wheel trim for CLASSIC

  • Front headlamps with new technology and state-of-the-art clear-plastic lenses, high-brilliance tail lights

  • Door handles for ELEGANCE and AVANTGARDE body-coloured with chrome trim

  • Stainless steel exhaust deflector on AVANTGARDE model

  • Three new paintwork colours: mangrove green metallic, polar silver metallic and atoll blue metallic

Interior

  • New-design dashboard with high-quality finish

  • New-design centre console with styling matched to the new transmission tunnel trim

  • New-design door panel trim

  • Three-spoke steering wheel with new design and larger rim cross-section

  • Trim parts of high-grade wood or aluminium in ELEGANCE and AVANTGARDE

  • A-pillars fabric-trimmed

  • Handbrake lever with sliding cover

  • Four accent colours: dark blue, quartz (only for ELEGANCE), chilli red and light slate grey

Ergonomics

  • Tailgate with new handle for convenient single-handed operation

  • Steering wheel with height adjustment as standard

  • AVANTGARDE front seats with sporty contouring, providing more lateral support

  • Switches and controls on centre console conveniently placed

  • Air recirculation now actuated by push-button (instead of previous sliding control)

  • Air outlets with integrated thumb-wheels and higher efficiency

  • Luggage cover rigid

Engineering

  • CDI diesel engines developing up to 25 per cent more power

  • Latest-generation Electronic Stability Program (ESP®) and hydraulic Brake Assist

  • Air conditioning system with a new dew point sensor to measure air humidity, a refrigerant compressor with infinitely variable control and a more powerful evaporator

  • Five-speed fan (previously four-speed)

  • Electric heater booster (instead of previous fuel-powered heater booster) and new water-cooled alternator for the diesel models

  • Heated windscreen washer system optionally available

  • Windowbags optionally available

  • Rain sensor for windscreen wiper optionally available

  • Automatically dimming interior mirror optionally available



 
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