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500,000 Reasons to Love the Fiat 500!
31st October 2007
It was one of the worst kept secrets in motoring, the Italian maker displaying the Trepiuno concept car back in 2004 with most realising that production of this car, based on a modified Panda chassis, shouldn’t prove too difficult. Three years later, here it is, polished and primed.
The 500 is significant in more than the obvious ways. Built at the Tychy plant in Poland alongside the Panda, with much of the same underpinnings, the chassis also forms the basis for the all-new Ford Ka. At 1.65m wide, 1.49m high and 3.55m long, the 500 doesn’t take up a great deal of space.
Delicious design details drip from the 500. There’s a very well-judged blend of retro chic and ruthlessly modern contemporary design inside, with circular head restraints, a glass roof and iconic 500 badging on the Panda-sourced dashboard. The exterior treatment is equally cool and clean. Besides the choice of 12 exterior colours, you can also personalise your 500 with an endless variety of stickers, alloy wheel designs, chrome trim options and plenty more. Fiat has calculated that there are 500,000 different possible combinations of the Fiat 500, that’s 500,000 reasons to love it!
This time around the new Fiat 500 is available with a choice of three engines. Built to comply with the latest and toughest Euro 5 exhaust emissions regulations, and either five or six-speed gearboxes, the Fiat 500 guarantees strong performance with remarkable fuel economy and very low CO2 emissions.
The Fiat 500 is already starting to rake in the awards. The latest of these comes from Fifth Gear, Channel 5 TV’s weekly motoring show, which has just crowned the 500 its Best Small Car of the Year – several months before the supermini is even launched in the UK. Special mention was made of the new 500’s recent Euro NCAP five star crash safety rating (35 points) which puts it among the safest cars available in Europe today.
Due to be released in the UK early 2008, why not make it your New Years Resolution to grab a brand new Fiat 500- it will undoubtedly be the car to be seen in!
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