Fiat Auto Poland is realigning its product line-up for 2008, stating that in January it will discontinue two models from the range, the Albea and Stilo Multiwagon.

Fiat Auto Poland is realigning its product line-up for 2008, stating that in January it will discontinue two models from the range, the Albea (saloon) and the Stilo Multiwagon (estate). The locally-built Fiat 600 will continue to be offered on the Polish market, but only as a limited-edition-series model.

These two models will join several others that have been jettisoned from the Polish range during the last two years. The Fiat Multipla was dropped from the line-up in May 2006, with the last examples being sold in January this year. The Fiat Ulysse (MPV) was axed in late January 2007, at the same time as the previous-generation Fiat Punto was also phased out.

The company says it will no longer take customer orders for the Albea and Stilo Multiwagon models, while it is now looking to clear the current inventories.

Presently, Fiat is Poland's third biggest brand for new car sales with 25,730 units (during the January-November period) and is up 14.8 percent year-on-year. However, the company's market share fell to 9.7 percent from the 10.3 percent it held during the corresponding year-ago period. The company's market share however fell to 9.7 percent from the 10.3 percent in the corresponding year-ago period.

Report: Samar