Fiat Spa has already closed India ops

DRC · 1st April 2005, 16:28

BHPians , Did you try this of late...

www.fiat.com

Now try to chose a country and try finding "India"

Hungary....Ireland....Italy...Japan...

Where is India.. There used to be one....

I bought a petra 3 months ago

DRC · 1st April 2005, 16:41

BTW, any one give me the contact phone/ mail id of fiat Spa. I have a few questions to ask them Phone could be good..

v_s_natarajan · 1st April 2005, 16:53

read today's ET.
Fiat spa is looking for active indian partners to take some of their equity and ICICI are the fund managers for this,
relax buddy.
Fiat is here to stay

rishi_kapoor · 1st April 2005, 16:55

Another April Fool! Fiat is definitely here to stay.

Rock 'n' rollz · 1st April 2005, 16:56

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Originally Posted by DRC

www.fiat.com
Now try to chose a country and try finding "India"
Hungary....Ireland....Italy...Japan...
Where is India.. There used to be one....

Since there is no fiat india website, they might have removed India from the list of countries temporarily. I don't think that means India ops are closed. But it does mean that fiat india is "struggling" to get their website live.

DRC · 1st April 2005, 17:02

www.Fiat-india.com says the site is under construction!!!

Rock 'n' rollz · 1st April 2005, 17:14

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Originally Posted by DRC

www.Fiat-india.com says the site is under construction!!!

Sorry, but www.Fiat-india.com gives 'Cannot find server' error. Its the http://fiat-india.com that gives under construction message. In any case why Fiat Spa would want to redirect their (likely)customers to an under construction site?

GTO · 1st April 2005, 19:04

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Sorry, but www.Fiat-india.com gives 'Cannot find server' error. Its the http://fiat-india.com that gives under construction message. In any case why Fiat Spa would want to redirect their (likely)customers to an under construction site?

Pardon my ignorance, but wouldnt http://fiat-india.com and www.fiat-india.com technically be the same address?

GTO

veyron1 · 1st April 2005, 19:08

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Originally Posted by GTO

Pardon my ignorance, but wouldnt http://fiat-india.com and www.fiat-india.com technically be the same address?

GTO

true!!! both addresses are the same, unless they are cap sensitve- (fiat-india;Fiat-India)- which i don't think they are!!

GTO · 1st April 2005, 19:11

I dont think cap sensitiveness has anything to to with it (or does it). I just typed TEAM-BHP.COM and it got be home!

GTO

DCEite · 1st April 2005, 19:26

GTO

These stupid people have configured url handler to append www. at the begining of every request. so you get pointed to http://www.fiat-india.com if you type http://fiat-india.com. But if you type http://www.fiat-india.com, then it gets pointed to http://www.www.fiat-india.com (which does not exist)

Dont know whats going on inside their brains right now...

Rock 'n' rollz · 1st April 2005, 19:29

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Originally Posted by GTO

Pardon my ignorance, but wouldnt http://fiat-india.com and www.fiat-india.com technically be the same address?

GTO

Not necessary. Its upto the network administrator of the domain to decide. S/he can list domain name/ip address mappings in a file. so you can have something like
www.fiat-india.com pointing to one IP address AND
fiat-india.com pointing to some other.
You might as well decide to add petra.fiat-india.com, palio.fiat-india.com... exclusive sites for petra and palio respectively.

So its really upto the network administrator.

And I haven't seen case sensitive domain names.

Would like to know more about them.

Rock 'n' rollz · 1st April 2005, 19:31

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Originally Posted by dceite

GTO

These stupid people have configured url handler to append www. at the begining of every request. so you get pointed to http://www.fiat-india.com if you type http://fiat-india.com. But if you type http://www.fiat-india.com, then it gets pointed to http://www.www.fiat-india.com (which does not exist)

Dont know whats going on inside their brains right now...

dceite, sorry but I haven't experienced that ever..could u please elaborate on this?

DCEite · 1st April 2005, 19:31

The thing is, if you type fiat-india.com(which is their registered domain), You will be pointed to www.fiat-india.com ie, the url handler appends "www." prefix everytime you access fiat-india.com. So, http://fiat-india.com translates to http://www.fiat-india.com (the real adress that works) but http://www.fiat-india.com translates to http://www.www.fiat-india.com (the wrong address hence the error)

Rock 'n' rollz · 1st April 2005, 19:41

I beg to differ... How do you know about this URL handler stuff. When I type fiat-india.com in the address bar and hit enter, it takes me to http://fiat-india.com. When you see the palio image on the page right click on it and select properties. That would show you where the image is coming from. do let me knoe your findings.

1st April 2005, 16:28	#1
DRC BHPian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Cockpit Posts: 911 Thanked: 64 Times View My Garage	Fiat Spa has already closed India ops BHPians , Did you try this of late... www.fiat.com Now try to chose a country and try finding "India" Hungary....Ireland....Italy...Japan... Where is India.. There used to be one.... I bought a petra 3 months ago
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1st April 2005, 16:41	#2
DRC BHPian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Cockpit Posts: 911 Thanked: 64 Times View My Garage	BTW, any one give me the contact phone/ mail id of fiat Spa. I have a few questions to ask them Phone could be good..
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1st April 2005, 16:53	#3
v_s_natarajan BHPian Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: chennai Posts: 261 Thanked: 3 Times	read today's ET. Fiat spa is looking for active indian partners to take some of their equity and ICICI are the fund managers for this, relax buddy. Fiat is here to stay
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1st April 2005, 16:55	#4
rishi_kapoor BHPian Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Noida Posts: 486 Thanked: 672 Times View My Garage	Another April Fool! Fiat is definitely here to stay.
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1st April 2005, 17:02	#6
DRC BHPian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Cockpit Posts: 911 Thanked: 64 Times View My Garage	www.Fiat-india.com says the site is under construction!!!
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1st April 2005, 19:11	#10
GTO Team-BHP Support Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bombay Posts: 70,533 Thanked: 300,531 Times View My Garage	I dont think cap sensitiveness has anything to to with it (or does it). I just typed TEAM-BHP.COM and it got be home! GTO
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1st April 2005, 19:26	#11
DCEite Senior - BHPian Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: NCR Posts: 3,413 Thanked: 2,521 Times	GTO These stupid people have configured url handler to append www. at the begining of every request. so you get pointed to http://www.fiat-india.com if you type http://fiat-india.com. But if you type http://www.fiat-india.com, then it gets pointed to http://www.www.fiat-india.com (which does not exist) Dont know whats going on inside their brains right now...
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1st April 2005, 19:31	#14
DCEite Senior - BHPian Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: NCR Posts: 3,413 Thanked: 2,521 Times	The thing is, if you type fiat-india.com(which is their registered domain), You will be pointed to www.fiat-india.com ie, the url handler appends "www." prefix everytime you access fiat-india.com. So, http://fiat-india.com translates to http://www.fiat-india.com (the real adress that works) but http://www.fiat-india.com translates to http://www.www.fiat-india.com (the wrong address hence the error) Last edited by DCEite : 1st April 2005 at 19:34.
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1st April 2005, 19:41	#15
Rock 'n' rollz BHPian Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Mumbai Posts: 287 Thanked: 21 Times	I beg to differ... How do you know about this URL handler stuff. When I type fiat-india.com in the address bar and hit enter, it takes me to http://fiat-india.com. When you see the palio image on the page right click on it and select properties. That would show you where the image is coming from. do let me knoe your findings.
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