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Fiat JTD engine

Reciprocating internal combustion engine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Multijet is a Fiat and General Motors joint venture, established in 1996, to manufacture diesel engines with turbo and common rail direct injection technology. Vehicles under dozens of brands have been equipped with Multijet engines. Ownership of some Fiat Multijet designs is shared with General Motors as part of a settlement of the failed merger between the two auto conglomerates. The GM Powertrain Torino group in Turin, Italy, manages its interest in these engines. Some PSA Peugeot Citroën diesel engines are also rebadged JTD units, and vice versa. Fiat's common-rail diesel engine is also known as JTD, an initialism of UniJet Turbo Diesel.

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The public source identifies “Fiat JTD engine” as reciprocating internal combustion engine. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fiat, engine and Reciprocating.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fiat, engine and Reciprocating providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Fiat JTD engine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.