I can pretty much confirm my next car will not be Fiat
after 700 miles of ownership??,
I can pretty much confirm my next car will not be Fiat
after 700 miles of ownership??,
As my local, friendly and helpful fiat dealer terminated with fiat I am forced to do a 50mi round trip to a un-local, un-friendly, un-helpful and rude fiat dealer for warranty work, too many faults at so few miles and then putting up with that and the reward is... A fiat. The only grace is my opinion of the product and insurance. Maybe an Abarth as a next car but not standard fiat I'm afraid
Got 48mpg actual from my last tank and it is still improving. Very short journeys hurt that too; indicated was 10%+ higher when I did 2 x 75 mile trips instead of my regular usage which is only 5 miles (hence opting for petrol this time). Guess it will settle at around 52 mpg with a few more thousand miles up. You do have to keep the revs down on acceleration and using the lack of engine braking to ease off when approaching junctions much earlier than you would with your non TA doesn't hurt either.
It isn't that bad.. Eg..New Qashqai 115PS petrol gets 50 mpg claimed, new Yeti 105PS 46 mpg claimed.
As for 60+ from a 1.6 diesel Suzuki, no doubt the 500l would acheive this too or get within ~5%, I regularly acheived 60+ mpg actual from my Bravo which had the previous generation 1.6 multijet (ACTUALLY GOT CLAIMED MPG ). The Suzuki petrol is 51.3 mpg claimed...
The other makes I note above are all higher tax (CO2) as well I think.
....... I love the 500L, but I'm not totally in love......