The car that put Italy on wheels was in the late 1950s and 1960s, less and less useful than the beetle, which has done the same work for Germany. Smaller than the French equivalent, the Citron 2CV, or even than the British original Mini, too. But it is more fondly than any of them because it was so damn sweet remembered. Just ask Pixar's John Lassoer, who animated the 500 as Luigi in the tire-shop owner cars.
And now, just like the Beetle and the Mini, it goes back. A new version was on 4 July, 50 years to the day since just launched the 1957 original into life. In keeping with this car, it is small - only 140 cm from the mouth to the waist and £ 2,150 - but grippingly desirable. In contrast to the hyper-minimal original, it is more sophisticated in its design and execution. So much so that Fiat bosses are seriously considering to sell it in the U.S. through Macerates boutiques, sometime around 2010.
And why not? The original 500 is a symbol for all those with Italian roots, or anyone who has ever toured Europe in the 1960s or 1970s, or people who are "Cars" and sympathize with Luigi seen. These people will now be locked to that vehicle. For they have their cultural significance cannot explain. For all others, should the style and the surprising quality of the small package with a draw.
Of course it is also faces the same obstacles as any tiny car in America. While the Fiat 500 is to do what he has always done best - with a small car that satisfies your needs for a larger - in America, you'll probably feel a bit vulnerable to driving this tiny. And you gain little advantage for your pain, because in Europe and Japan, the cramped streets of the city to actively promote a car with such tiny dimensions.
The new 500 design is not simply a facsimile of the original and not even ape its proportions. It never could, because the original was a rear engine and the new is conventional front engine FWD. But keep the lights error, asking the forehead, clamshell hood, and falling edges. It is plump, juicy, and as tempting as a ripe peach.
Inside, all instruments are neatly integrated into a series of concentric circles, to echo the simple speedometer binnacle of the previous car. Fiat has Overdelivered embedded on quality and jewel like detail, including switching from engraved plates in diamonds of clear coat, chrome in tiny enclosures. All this in a car on the price of a Honda Fit competes.
Not that it competes in accommodation with a fit. The 500 bubble shape seriously undermines the back seat and trunk. Do not think micro coupe micro van. But the front seats provide decent comfort and proper when upright riding position for most sizes of adults.
For the moment the most interesting motivated
or is a 1.4-liter, 100-horsepower 16-valve unit of gas that hit speeds up to 7000 with all the vim of an espresso Dopier caffeine. It is hooked up to a six-speed manual transmission with a dash-mounted lever for short throws. Fiat quoted 10.2 seconds on the Euro-standard 0-62 mph dash, accept as comfortable under 10 seconds for 0-60 mph. In a year that it would a 135-horse turbocharged Abarth version to be, with a lowered and stiffened suspension. But do not fixate on the numbers, focus on psychological speed: the wealth of the Abarth decals and stripes is in and of itself shave precious seconds from any city center sprint race.
A high-revving, hard-working little engine is bound to make a noise, but as the 500 justifies all the old clichés about Italian engines worth listening to. It is encouraging smooth over the whole area and smashes as the tachometer needle closes in on 7000th The transmission keeps your involvement in all this hectic action, placing the short-throw six-speed shifter handy high up on the dashboard.
High-geared motors are, Firm-weighted steering access to exactly the kind of handling you would expect scoot about. It is fashionable and infinitely benign chuck the wheels 185/55 tires on 15-inch offering much feedback as you explore the limits of wriggling through tight curves. The brakes are progressive and take it with surprising stability in the face of the 500 short wheelbase footprint.
While the engine is turning furiously at highway speeds, in other respects, Fiat managed to give a greater sense of NVH characteristics as the smaller competitors in Japan. The body 500 of the consists mainly made of high strength steels, which helps to calm and security. To compensate for the brevity, the nose has been given three crash load paths instead of the usual two. Seven airbags are included such as ABS and ESP.
Fiat 500 will be unique to a high-tech sub-brand is not just a flash in the pan-retro. Thus, there are plans, not only for the Abarth, but also as a convertible and also use the 500 as the vanguard of new, highly efficient propulsion systems. An automated manual transmission is available now, stop-start will come next year, and in Europe in 2010, it will be a new gasoline engine with revolutionary electromagnetic actuation of the intake valves. The claim is for a high torque coupled with a 25-percent fuel savings, Fiat is planning to roll install it on his machine, including the size range of the units in Alfas will
But at the moment in Italy is all too excited about the car itself, to take care of technical fine print. Ask taught Italian at the age of 40, what kind of car they drive in, and they are almost always grinning and rolling her tongue around the word Cinquecento, usually voluntarily, the color and other distinctive details as well. At the beginning of his life, there is the new Fiat 500, because people want to buy back a polished version of their own precious memories. The fact it's a real car is a little later on, but it is reassuring all the same.
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