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02/07/2008 10:15. As mentioned in our launch report the Bravo Eco is Fiat's attempt to do what other manufacturers - most notably the Volkswagen Group - have done in the past, namely to offer a tax-busting version of an existing car.

Actually, the Eco is by no means the only example of this within the Bravo range, since Fiat has used the same petrol engine in three different states of tune (standard, lightly turbocharged and more robustly turbocharged) to produce quite different levels of performance for the same official rate of fuel consumption and CO2 emission.

The Eco is, however, the only taxation special Bravo diesel. It uses the new 1.6-litre MultiJet engine - unquestionably a fine piece of work - which, in 105bhp form, usually gives the Bravo 57.6mpg combined and 129g/km of CO2. Various pieces of... // CARkeys