Well having been driving the family 500L on holiday I can honestly say will never buy another again.
For a 16L diesel 104Bhp no torque compared to my old 14L diesel Toyota Yaris.
Slow, noisy, small boot space, handles like a top heavy brick.
Intermittent wipe only controlled via the central screen bit stupid while driving and don't work anyhow.
Unable to see the blue high beam light when lit due to the steering wheel been in the way.
Tiny rear view and stupid big mirrors that catch the hedges on small roads and a pathetic turning circle.
Never seen a more stupid heater control on a car do Fiat think everything is done stood still ? All in all hate the thing carnt wait to get rid of it and get a more thought out better built car.

No boot space? You sure it's a 500L and not a panda? With the upper boot panel in place its quite a lager boot, take the panel out and it's huge! Drop the seats and it's vast.... Take the parcel shelf out and the hight is great. Mine is the 85bhp 1249 cc 16v common rail tdi 5 speed auto and its pretty quick off the lights! And returns avg 46mpg noisy? Torque! I've pulled shrub roots out with mine! Handles very well, sticks to the road like glue! Intermittent wipe is just a rotate of the right side stalk!! High beam blue light? If your tall or have your steering wheel adjustment wrong maybe? I'm 6ft I can see mine! Tiny rear view? Stupid heater control? I just reach out my left hand to change!! Large door mirrors are great, except they don't fold flat... Lol

Some people simply don't like specific cars. That's ok, otherwise everyone would drive the same car. Just imagine only VW Golfs on the streets :bang:

I must say, the bit about the intermittent wash/wipe made me laugh. RTFM springs to mind!
I have the 1.6 105 too and for a 1.6 I think it's fantastically Torquey. 320 newts is pretty impressive for an engine of this capacity. I find that you can stick it in 6th and it'll chomp up pretty much any gradient as long as you're doing 50MPH+.
I find the heater controls brilliantly intuitive to operate 'blind' infinitely better than the button rash favoured by so many other manufacturers these days.
Anyway, To each his own

One thing is true, it is quite nose heavy. I had the 1.3 diesel as a rental car in Italy and was amazed how agile it is. The 1.6 feels much heavier.

It is flawed. Some of the faults are just plain stupid. I certainly agree to the view of the controls through the wheel. Ive the seat on lowest and steering wheel on highest and still have to sit slightly off line to see the speedo clearly. A stupid, easily avoided error. Probably from swinging the wheel over to the right hand side.

The 1.4 petrol is a gutless waste of time. My biggest regret choosing that motor.

I can't comment on the boot space as mine is the MPW 5-seat version and thus more space than any other in the range.

Handling is ok. It's a tall car. And yes I've clipped the drivers mirror when it was two weeks old.

The cruise control is dreadful. Very difficult to tell when it engages and will drop out at a whim. If going up hill and the engine can't keep up it drops, if the cars going downhill and on overrun it drops. Because the light remains green whether engaged or not(!) you only notice when the speed falls away. Every other make of car I've driven changes the colour of the warning light between selected and engaged cruise.