Fiat are launching a turbodiesel version of the Fiat Palio Adventure in Argentina with the objective of increasing sales of the popular off-road capable estate car. The "Adventure" tag denotes Fiat vehicles sold across South America that are re-worked to provide, toughness, durability and enhanced safety and designed to be practical vehicles in rugged environments. The "Adventure" range comprises of the Palio Weekend (estate), Doblò (light van), Idea (minivan) and Strada (pick-up), Each Adventure model is immediately identifiable by bigger and chunkier front and rear bumpers, plastic wheel arch and sill protection covers, aluminum protection plates, bigger alloy wheels fitted with off-road tyres, roof bars, external spare wheel (on the Doblò and Idea) and a raised ride height.

The Palio Adventure is the key selling model in the range, a it is vehicle that Fiat believe can be just as easily be used as a practical family car as at ease in a town environment as it can as an off-road capable load-lugger. Now the model gets the option of diesel power (an option which is not permitted on the Brazilian market, where it is built, at the giant Betim factory at Belo Horizonte in the Minas Gerais region).