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Hi all

The 500L is available on the FIAT italian website configurator!

Personally I think it looks more like a panda than a 500 - especially the interior - but at least we can have a butchers at it.

Seems that we can't have 1.4 engines in the 500 anymore as they are all going in the 500L:p
 
Opening edition looks pretty cool in white paint on 17"s

http://www.fiat.it/it/promozioni/promo-500L-oe

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Looks like a good car. BUT: once again Fiat, the engines are not powerful enough, and too much is optional rather than standard. And the looks will be more than usually controversial.

And it is expensive.

I am worried about Fiat.
 
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Really don't understand why there isn't a 1.4 turbo petrol option or a 1.6 diesel considering its getting on for proper car size but has the less powerful engines from a baby citycar.
 
StevenRB45 said:
Really don't understand why there isn't a 1.4 turbo petrol option or a 1.6 diesel considering its getting on for proper car size but has the less powerful engines from a baby citycar.
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emmissions and target market i would have thought

will be driven by yummie mummies on school run and oaps on a trip to the coop or on a b road at the weekend holding up the caravans :p
 
RobW said:
emmissions and target market i would have thought

will be driven by yummie mummies on school run and oaps on a trip to the coop or on a b road at the weekend holding up the caravans :p
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Exactly I had this figured as the sort of car you would see loaded up with kids and clobber on day trips. While the engines provided seem to suggest its a rival to the vw up! Thought this was meant to be a family car will barely move fully laden with base engine.

It's a gp chassis IIRC not a panda so no reason it couldn't have the same engines.
 
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I'm quite suprised by the engine options. They actually make sence, which isn't sometimes the case with newly-launched Fiats!

1.3 85 AND a 1.6 105bhp diesel, plus 1.4 95 and TwinAir 105bhp petrol. I thought the way they were pulling the 1.4 95 from the MiTo, 500 etc meant it might've been dropped altogether in favour of MultiAir engines, but this proves that not to be the case.

Also good to see a decent level of standard kit included. Maybe they've learnt from the new Panda and new Doblo that you can't price vehicles as they have been doing (ie higher than Fiats traditionally were) and leave everything on the options list.

Despite it not being my type of car, it actually looks pretty decent and competitive to me. (y)
 
Take a close look at the options and it stops looking quite so reasonable. To get parking sensors you have to do without alloy wheels and a bright strip along the side, but you get a soft dashboard instead, and probably electric rear windows. Odd.

And I think that the basic version can only be had in red without spending more for paint: I think... the configurator I saw seemed to be in Euros and was such a pain I gave up after about fifteen seconds?

And why a 1.4 and TA with almost the same power I wonder; the TA has more torque and should be the better drive, so why is Fiat so afraid of leaving the 1.4 out? A mystery.

But yes, I quite like it, but let's see how much it really costs when people tick what they need rather than what Fiat says they want ;)
 
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Ulpian said:
Take a close look at the options and it stops looking quite so reasonable. To get parking sensors you have to do without alloy wheels and a bright strip along the side, but you get a soft dashboard instead, and probably electric rear windows. Odd.

And I think that the basic version can only be had in red without spending more for paint: I think... the configurator I saw seemed to be in Euros and was such a pain I gave up after about fifteen seconds?

And why a 1.4 and TA with almost the same power I wonder; the TA has more torque and should be the better drive, so why is Fiat so afraid of leaving the 1.4 out? A mystery.

But yes, I quite like it, but let's see how much it really costs when people tick what they need rather than what Fiat says they want ;)
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You forgot that to get the parking sensors, you need to tap your nose thusly and sing Tie me kangaroo down sport 3 times, no more, no less.

Some of Fiat's choices for combo's of options are a touch strange.....
 
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