The Fiat 500L is heading for a debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month, and we have the first official photo of the oversized 500. We’ve reported a few times recently on what we now know to be the Fiat 500L. It initially seemed that Fiat would use the ElleZero code name for the production car, [...]
Fiat has confirmed that the Elle-Zero will debut at the Geneva Motor Show as the Fiat 500L Compact MPV. Earlier this month we reported that Fiat were heading to the Geneva Motor Show in March with a new compact MPV – the Fiat Elle-Zero, which they are. But instead of using the code name for [...]
Prices for the 2012 Fiat Punto have been announced, with the entry level Punto Pop 1.2 starting at £9,990. Fiat has announced prices for the 2012 Punto, with the starting point being the 1.2 litre Pop at £9,990, rising to £15,600 for the range-topping 1.3 litre Multijet, which comes with plenty of equipment including Climate, [...]
Fiat has a new compact MPV heading towards the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, the Fiat ElleZero. Expected to arrive in the UK as the Chrysler ElleZero. It looks like Fiat’s next big model reveal is going to be a new compact MPV – the Fiat ElleZero – which, with all things Fiat and Chrysler being a bit [...]
Fiat has launched the 500 Abarth in the US, and has forsaken Jennifer Lopez in adverts for the Abarth for a fiery Italian. Sort of. Fiat had high hopes for the Fiat 500 in the US, hoping to emulate the success MINI has enjoyed by tickling the trendy button in US car buyers’ brains. But that plan [...]
Fiat has revealed the new Fiat Panda ahead of a reveal at Frankfurt. Fiat say the 2012 Panda is the Panda at ‘Full Maturity’. The Fiat Panda has always been simple motoring, in many ways much more the keeper of Fiat’s heritage than the funky Fiat 500. True, there is, in the current iteration, the Panda 100hp [...]
Fiat has revealed the the 500byGucci and the convertible 500C Gucci are to go on sale in the U’S in december 2011. Did the U.S know what it was letting itself in for when it started to buy the Fiat 500? Well, it’s going to find out soon enough with Fiat launching both the tin [...]
Zagato is to take legal action against US tuners Scagliarini Motorsports over the Scagliarini Motorsports Fiat 500 Coupe Zagato Elaborata. Earlier this week we had an email pop in to tell us all about a customised Fiat 500 put together by U.S. tuners Scagliarini Motorsports. Which looked interesting, and we assumed it was done in collaboration with Zagato. Good story [...]
Fiat introduces Euro 5 compliant engines for the Fiat Panda, with the new 1.2 litre petrol Active starting at £8,445. The Fiat Panda has now gone on sale in the UK with a new range of Euro 5 compliant engines. Which it has to; Fiat can no longer sell cars that don’t comply with the new [...]
The Fiat 500 has been launched in to China with a limited edition Fiat 500 First Edition, 100 cars with graphics by young Chinese artists. The next stage of Fiat’s quest to make the Fiat 500 the world’s favourite retro-cute car hit the world’s biggest market this week. Yep, China got its first Fiat 500s. Now Fiat appears to [...]
The Abarth Punto EVO esseesse pack offering an extra 15bhp and tweaked suspension will be available later this year for around £3k. The Fiat 1.4 litre lump which powers the Abarth Punto EVO is already a lively little thing. Despite its rather modest capacity it manages to deliver a healthy 165bhp, enough to scoot the Abarth [...]
Fiat has revealed another limited edition Fiat 500 – the Fiat 500byGucci – designed by Gucci and advertised with the legs of Natasha Poly Somewhere along the way both Fiat and MINI decided that the ultimate marketing tool for their trendy, retro-inspired superminis was an endless stream of variations and special editions. And it’s worked. So it’s no surprise then that we’ve got another new Fiat 500 to add [...]
It’s reported that Fiat’s Sergio Marchionne is planning on acquiring an additional 15% of Chrysler for $1.5 billion to give Fiat a majority shareholding. What a difference a couple of years makes. On May Day in 2009 we reported that Chrysler had been put in to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and the US Government was stepping in to ease the [...]
Fiat are launching the Fiat 500 Cabrio in to the US market just in time for Spring. Us buyers can see it first at this month’s New York Motor Show. Actually, we’re not completely convinced that the Fiat 500 cabrio (that’s Fiat 500 Convertible for those of us on the old continent who prefer real words) has hit the US. Because although Fiat has [...]
Fiat / Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne has revealed that they will lose £7k on every electric Fiat 500 they sell. Despite upping the price to over £30k. I know. We bang on about how impractical electric cars are as a replacement for ICE cars. And it’s true. They only work as a toy for the better off, [...]
The Zagato Fiat 500 Concept from the Geneva Motor Show - Fiat 500 Coupe Zagato – gets a green light for a limited run. When we counted up the number of cars that appeared at the Geneva Motor Show this year it came to over 200. Not all the cars were new arrivals and many were a bit dull. But one [...]
Fiat has revealed the Fiat Freemont ahead of its debut at Geneva. Based on the Dodge Journey it will go on sale in Europe in the Summer. At the end of December we revealed that Fiat had decided they should take the Dodge Journey and turn it in to a Fiat. The Fiat Freemont – [...]
Fiat are to replace the Fiat Ulysee in Europe with the Dodge Journey rebadged as Fiat Freemont. The Fiat Freemont will debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. You might as well get used to this. Cross-pollination and re-badging between Chrysler and Fiat is going to move on apace in 2011 and this is just the start, with the [...]
Fiat has revealed the US-Spec Fiat 500 at the Los Angeles Motor Show, suitable fettled for the American car buyer and costing from $15,500 It would have been completely unthinkable just a few years ago; a small Fiat not just entering the US market but doing so amid much domestic anticipation and razzmatazz. But it’s happened – the [...]
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are out filming for Top Gear in the Middle East in a trio of beaten-up Roadsters – MX-5, Z3 and Fiat Barchetta As we said back at the end of September when we reported that Top Gear were busy filming for the next series in New York, this [...]
Abarth are producing an EsseEsse version of the Abarth Punto Evo and the Abarth 500C, both of which will be at the Paris Motor Show. Abarth do a very good job of warming up the odd Fiat or two (well, they have been doing it for quite a long time), the most recent offerings being the Abarth 500C and the Abarth Punto Evo [...]
In part two of our review & Road Test of the Fiat Panda 100 HP, we see if its dramatic sporty looks translate to proper performance. If you’re going to judge a book by its cover, then the Fiat Panda 100hp is shouting all the things I like in a car from the rooftops. [...]
We spend a week with Fiat’s now old-fashioned hot-hatch – the Fiat Panda 100 HP. Is it a decent buy or just a Panda with go-faster stripes? It’s easy to get bogged down in what’s good and what’s bad in a car. The truth is that there are no really bad cars made any more, [...]
Fiat plan to offer just the Fiat 500 through its US franchise dealers, but will also offer the new Alfa Romeo SUV and other Alfas. With the exception of Ferrari, Fiat’s offerings have never been a runaway success in the US. But with the world getting more eco-minded and Americans starting to see the joy that smaller [...]
