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Great fun to drive, lots of personalisation options, economical and cheap to run.
£3,000 premium over hatchback, ride is bouncy, rear visibility is awful with the roof down.
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FUEL ECONOMY
48.7–72.4
OFFICIAL MPG
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REAL MPG
79%
OF OFFICIAL MPG
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INSURANCE
5–7
GROUPS
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ROAD TAX
A–E
VED BANDS
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| CARS FOR SALE | COMPANY CAR TAX | USED 500C PRICES |
Introduction
In March 2008 I liked the FIAT 500 so much I bought one.
And my little car has been a stylish standby. It didn't do much work during its first year because I had a long-term test car and scores more cars to drive. But, with the long-termer long gone, over the last month alone my 500 has clocked up around 1,000 business miles. And it still looks as cute and as fresh as the day I bought it.
However, over the past year there have been several developments in Cinquecentoland.
First, FIAT started building them for Ford, with a slightly different shaped body and suspension sorted out by Ford's chassis engineers who, by using softer rear springs and adding an anti-roll bar to the rear twist-beam, made it both ride and handle better.
So naturally, when FIAT shoehorned a 135PS turbo 1.4 engine into the 500 and called it the 500 Abarth, they adopted Ford's ideas and tweaked them a bit further.
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