Test drive Fiat 500 since 2007 hatchback

All photos Fiat 500 since 2007

Child's world

All wrong! The test, the training ground, even joyfully jumping uncles in red jackets, thought Sergey Voskresensky, looking at the mini and Fiat 500. Photo: Alexander Batyr.
Mini Cooper S 1.6 L, 175 hp, 6-speed mechanics, basic equipment, options, 1 010 700 rub.
Fiat 500 1.2 l, 69 hp, 5-speed mechanics, Lounge equipment, options, 597 500 rubles.
Now, if these two toy cars were driven into kindergarten and give it to a torn baby! It would be worth expensive upholstery, pretty pens, buttons, but the shining children's faces inside would look more natural.
Why not get into childhood yourself? After all, these cars contribute to as no others. Moreover, the replicas are similar only by nostalgia for the past, and in spirit, the modifications that have come to the test differ as an adult and a child, therefore it is incorrect to compare them directly. The mini-cumper S is directly bursting with 170 turbocharges under a snub hood, and the tough suspensions and other sports lotions, hidden in a compact three-door body, are springing to madness. This clot of energy has the right to arrogantly look at the proposed opponent. Fiat 500 with a 1.2-liter motor with a capacity of 69 hp, by the standards of Cooper S, is more like a lawn mower. True, the rest is more fully consistent with the promised retro -maintenance and is more restrained, without the emphasized celebration of modern technologies.

Adult games
A car, a fiat, five hundred ... In life I did not use so many diminutive-missive words. How little is it to believe in these simple forms, which has a constant Susyukan with a car that is struggling to look like an adult and independent. And you do not get tired of admiring, looking at the slightly protruding, like the ears of a teenager, mirrors, surprised headlights, tiny fog lights sparkling with chromium bumper.
Inside the car, sadness rolled over the good past. I admit, I never sat in that long -standing and, probably by modern standards, a small and non -casual five hundred. And it seemed as if he met an old acquaintance. The spirit remained the same, but the place probably has become larger and the content has changed. The steering wheel, climate installation, glass roof overhead, comfortable pedal, expressive lever of gearboxes. And the speedometer and a tachometer, in whose different -caliber circles, the arrows first stay together, and then begin to play catch -up! Unusual, partly even inconvenient, but the soul is childishly happy. No, he is still a dandy obsessed with style, but communicating with him is completely not a burden.
He is clearly contraindicated in the scope of autobahns, but it is precisely in the close space of the Fia-500 as a fish in water. Excellent mobility in the first two programs, enviable even for classmates maneuverability, visibility and sense of dimensions. He is light and sociable so that you sometimes doubt whether this exchange has a limit with thoughts and desires. However, the euphoria is gradually disappeared. When accelerating, the motor (good that is not noisy) is advisable to twist almost before cutting off, only then he finds complete understanding with the transmission. Of course, it is possible in a different way: for example, in the fifth gear, the engine pulls well with 50 km/h. But try to accelerate, all the more to the rise, you will have to go to two or three steps down.
The fact that the baby does not like speed also speaks of everything else: noisy tires, vocal aerodynamics, peculiar smoothness of the course and handling. He can afford to bring the speedometer arrow as much as 150 km/h, almost perfectly slow down in an acute situation. But when the steering wheel moves at high speed, Fiat sharply shies to the side. Or he will suddenly show character, rolling in the most ordinary turn, protesting against the aggressive actions of the driver with all nature. He stands for calm movement in space. In addition, it was created for good roads hard and at the same time prone to build -up suspension is not so crash on the waves, although on small irregularities the soul is shaken thoroughly.

Espander for the vertebrae
Extravagance in our time is definitely in demand. Otherwise, why is it so hard and fundamental, powerful and insanely sharp, assertive and not forgiving errors. When, having enjoyed plenty of the relief muscles of the street fighter, you find yourself inside the mini-sopper s, it remains to delightly accept the strong hugs of the seat, a low landing, impeded on all sides, imbued with involuntary respect for a tight steering wheel, a gravity of an impeccable gearbox. Finally, pay tribute to expensive and solid materials, majestic, although partly stupid circle of devices. Here, literally everything is done in a sports style, even every toggle switch, regardless of significance, is in an individual niche. And this, I must admit, is fascinating. Especially two devilish yellow-purple eyes of the night backlight, sunbathing above the inner mirror. Believe me, there is something mystical in them. I doubt that the former good -natured mini could carry even a small part of the aggression inherent in the current monster. In Fiat, everything, although stylishly, is simple and does not bother here on the body all the time goosebumps run from an excess of desire to taste everything at once.
Alas, it will not work! Try to use the climatic installation on the move, select the wiper mode or just find the desired toggle switch. Eyes are stuck in small, illegible symbolism, the hand hangs for a long time in the search. In order to avoid strabismus, looking at a huge speedometer is contraindicated (especially since nothing is really visible). Speed \u200b\u200breadings are much more convenient to derive in the digital version in the window of the tachometer.
No, he is still good! A light trembling ran through the body, responded at the tips of her fingers, feet. The system of release, then a powerful jerk from a place, screech, smoke speaking even in the second gear of rubber. All six gearboxes are sorted out on the first two kilometers of the dynamometric road, and it seems that the Cooper can still, only give the next pairs of gears. To the line restraints, like active security systems, with this car you need to communicate without intermediaries, one on one. Only then can you subjugate a very sharp steering wheel and no less impulsive response reactions of the machine. To pay tribute to the absence of rolls, the ideal follow of the trajectory, to forgive a very sharp breakdown in sliding and the almost complete absence of smoothness. You can’t behave with a pan -line with him, because he does not forgive mistakes and as if waiting for you to scream: enough, enough! And then he will crackle, the caring DTC will stop, everything around will return to normal, and only sharp pokes in the spine on the irregularities invisible to the eye will remind of the real possibilities of this car.

Still, the main thing is not hidden for their hood and not in the settings. In the end, Fiat has a charged version. It's all about the emotions that cars deliver to people, transferring them several decades ago. To the world of bright childhood sensations ._x0008_
Fiat 500
A compact three-door retro-style car was first represented in July 2007, 50 years after the first version of one of the most popular Fiat models.
Engines: gasoline 1.21.4 liters (69100 hp).
Gearboxes: 5- or 6-speed mechanical or 5-speed robot.
Complete: Lounge, Sport.
The price of basic versions: 555 000595 000 rub.
+ Excellent work of designers, spacious interior, comfortable seats and controls, excellent brakes, good visibility, convenient for the rear passengers, landing and planting.
- The bad roads and the aggressive driving style are contraindicated.
General assessment 7.7
With him, a trip to the world of lost traditions is surprisingly kind and comfortable. And in the movement, it is this version of the five hundredth that allows you to feel the era of the 1950s.
Mini Cooper S.
He leads a pedigree from the distant 1959. In 2001, the BMW company revived a three-door mini, charged versions of Cooper and Cooper S. Restyling in 2006 appeared.
Engines: gasoline 1.41.6 liters (95175 hp).
Gearbox: 6-speed mechanical or automatic.
Configurations: individual.
The price of basic versions: 655 000925 200 rub.
+ Excellent external data and very sports internal content, verified driver's tools, excellent sled abilities.
- Hard and sharp, unsuitable for long trips, inconvenient for the rear passengers.
General assessment 7.8
Quick, bright and very expressive. So much so that at times you completely forget about the retro -root of the present mini.
Sergey Voskresensky: At first it seemed that there could be no question of expert assessments, not the case. And then they decided to try to go beyond the usual framework (all the same, the test turned out to be non -standard) and put to everyone what he deserves. The result was unexpected. But funny.