Test drive Fiat 500 since 2007 hatchback

Fiat 500: Retro style party

Cinquecento has a soul. In a couple of hours, we already want to talk about him, we can drive all night, calling on friends to cause them an unchanged smile with charming impracticality, boastfully slowing down on traffic lights, letting the enthusiastic public see us from all sides.
We all have long been please the power of convenience and utilitarianism. Every year, cars are increasingly difficult to distinguish from each other, whether they are under European or Korean sauce. Both small cars and hefty SUVs fell a victim of a demon of globalization. Maybe that's why we are increasingly pulling us there, at a time when the trees were higher, the air is cleaner, and the cars are more interesting?
The Italians did not limit themselves to nostalgia and returned to life the icon of the 1960s Fiat 500. It is not at all utilitarian. It is impractical, cheerful, original and incredibly stylish.
The success of a retro car surpassed all the expectations of hot Italians emotional cars began to sweep away with tears of happiness in their eyes, so much so that the initial volumes of production had to increase. CINQUECENTO, CINQUECENTO Try to pronounce this juicy word denoting five hundred in Italian, without a smile! It sounded in Russia, which is already used to the idea that Fiat is not quite a Zhiguli. And she began to wait for the novelty at home.
Forward to the past, or back to the future
The design of modern models, including compact city cars, is described in press releases with terrible words, the main of which is aggressive. Soon, the front headlights of all new cars will end in the rear racks, and the logos occupy half a carp. Take a look at the new Chevrolet Spark!
Grazie, Italia, that Fiat 500 is not like that!
I would never have thought that it would be so hard to write about the appearance of Cinquecento. Each phrase as an advertising slogan, every detail compliment to the creators. But what to do if you can’t do it differently?
Swear me, but I will praise him.
Outwardly, Fiat resembles Volkswagen-Zhuk (which, by the way, was also revived from nostalgia) and Nissan Micra. But 500 has one undeniable advantage of charm. The style is created by the smallest details, somehow chrome lining on the door of the trunk, a edging of the rear lights, charming handles, reminiscent of the body of the handle of old refrigerators in this color. In addition to the round headlights, overall headlights are carried out separately on the muzzle. Usually they are combined into a common optics, but this is CINQUECENTO. No utilitarianism, remember?
Our test fiat, fortunately, turned out to be not red, already pretty bored with its brightness and banality, but appetizing. This pearl color is unusually suitable for him. It looks like a mother -of -pearl toy. It’s scary to leave him at night in the yard suddenly taken away!
Detail style
The interior is beyond praise. Here, Italian insanity on beauty reaches its climax. On the one hand, everything is simple and ascetic, on the other, many details that create an amazingly integral image, very high -quality for this class of cars, the materials of the finish, perforated skin and the very delicious smell of a happy past!
In the design of the salon, round windows and ensembles of climate control, three round shiny buttons in the very center of the console, a round deepening on the windows keys, round deflectors, round headrests, a round emblem in the center of the steering wheel prevails. The gearbox lever is drowned in a leather circle surrounded by a chrome strip. But the most ingenious inner door handles! Despite their retro design, they are cunningly hidden in the entire modern mechanism of the drive into the actions of the central castle.
Shiny surfaces do not make the car cheap, and a plastic insert on the front panel with a logo 500 in the color of the body causes a storm of delight. On the skin of the gearbox lever, a plate with a location of the gears is so simple and so exquisite.
Fiat is not just pleasing to his chips, he invites the owner to play the designer himself. The five hundredth, like Mini Cooper, another brilliant representative of the revived retro, can be configured for yourself: a dozen disks designs, a sea of \u200b\u200bstickers for the body, various interior decorations. Even the key can be made to your liking!
The same frantic stool
Negative begins when trying to choose an adequate landing at the wheel. Alas, this unrealistically driver's seat of 500 is designed, it seems, for a miniature girl tall below 160, and the steering wheel itself is regulated only in height. You sit, as if on a stool, your legs pursed, a cut above the drivers of neighboring sedans and hatchbacks. You will not swing the width of the passenger.
What can we say about the rear seats! There are quite a lot to the feet of the room, but with any relief difference, passengers if this is not five -year -old children knock their heads on the ceiling, in the most literal sense.
The windshield keys are not very conveniently located, they must be drawn to them. And it is difficult to immediately realize all the information that is displayed on one large circle in the common circle two circles: the speedometer and a tachometer scale with their arrows and a round display of the on -board computer with temperature sensors, gasoline reserve, odometer readings, etc. is inconvenient, but it looks like it looks like it Does anyone else have one!
But how to go on it?! The front headlights shine as if under the bumper 500, the back hurts from an uncomfortable landing, the legs flow, the steering wheel is so light that you barely manage to stop his faith when rebuilding, the baby reacts dullly to the gas without hunting. Under the hood of a 1.4-liter engine with a capacity of 100 hp, and it is boring to go even in a dull traffic jam.
But the pits on the road and other irregularities of the relief make Fiat jump and rush from side to side. When driving along the tram tracks, it seems that the car is about to turn over. Riding more than 120 km/h is just scary.
But this Italian stool can be made slightly frantic!
It's just some kind of holiday!
The secret of the excitement is a shiny round button with the inscription Sport. Its pressing it as if it is injected five hundred and some of the adrenaline cubes. The car is selected, it becomes tight from wheels to the steering wheel. At first, the steering wheel seems empty, but with an increase in speed, which the prefed Fiat gains quite actively, it is poured with reactive effort, the gearbox lever is infrequent (due to stretched gears), but it clicks fun and loudly, delighting with clarity and ergonomics. The car cheerfully jumps into the rut between the rows of the Moscow highway, at the last moment it integrates between a heavy truck and a leisurely jeep, and charmingly rumbling something Italian with its motor.
At the wheel of the five hundredth, despite the aching back, it will be pulled again and again. To call him frisky to sin against the truth, here the Italians did not reach Mini. But with his excitement and recklessness, he cheers up. Everyone who sits in Fiat 500 begins to smile.
And now he is already rushing, gleaming with varnished sides, the soul sings the radio, the suspension borrowed from the cult fiat panda allows you to clearly maneuver in the stream along the intended trajectory and gambling into turns. The meaning of analyze the technical characteristics and calculate the seconds of acceleration to hundreds? Cinquecento has a soul. After a couple of hours, we already want to talk about him, we should drive all night, reflecting the flashes of urban fun on the lacquered sides, to call on friends to cause them an unchanged smile with charming impracticality, boastfully slowing down at the traffic lights, letting the enthusiastic public see us from all sides.
Of course, he also has shortcomings of mediocre sound insulation, uncomfortable landing, tiny trunk. But the trunk at least is and has 185 liters of volume (although with the seats laid out to the almost flat floor, the volume becomes very decent), but the glove box does not exist and a deep regiment instead of it.
Parging Cinquecento is not so easy. On the one hand, due to compact dimensions, it can be fitted into those holes where only Matiz crashes, on the other hand, it is unpredictably large for such dimensions of the turning radius significantly complicates the task. Where the sedan will unfold, it will not always be possible in a fiat in one reception. Snowders in the yard become an insurmountable obstacle for the baby, and the sidewalks, as usual, are parking for owners of high clearance. To learn how to stick the rear gear the first time, you need dexterity.
Despite all these little things, Fiat 500 amazing car. It is no coincidence that dozens of tuning studios almost every month represent their programs for the magnificent Cinquecento. And they can’t stop. There are already many five hundredths, the power of which for such a weight can satisfy the most demanding street-player.
But ... it can only be a second car in the family. Every day you don’t drive to work on it, you won’t go to the supermarket, and traveling out of town will turn into a pipe dream at all. Yes, and it is a pity to expel him to Russian Street in winter.
Alas, not everyone can afford the joy of possession of the five hundredth.
Girl Student, sonorous coin
Calling coins for the five hundredth will have to lay out a lot. The most affordable Fiat 500 with a very modest 1.2-liter engine and mechanics costs 555,000 rubles in Russia. For this amount, the buyer receives air conditioning, electric drive and heating of mirrors, steering electrical power, adjusting the steering wheel and driver’s sitting in height, front windows, leather steering wheel decoration, ABS with EBD, 5 airbags and a radio tape recorder with MP3.
With a 1.4 -liter engine that can be recommended, two configurations, Lounge and Sport, both with six -speed mechanics are available. It is the sports configuration that has a SPORT button, as well as the stabilization system. Sport will cost 590,000 rubles, lounge of 595,000 rubles.
As options, you can order climate control, robotic KP (only for 1.2), control of the audio system on the steering wheel, panoramic roof or hatch, decoration of the cabin, parking sensors, stickers for the body, such a car can grow in a price of another 80-100 thousand .
Svetlana Aleeva

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Charm and style
Originality
Azart
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Unknown landing
Mediocre sound insulation
Impracticality
 
  
Complete the test of the tested car
Frontary airbags
Side airbags
Inflatable curtains
Abs
Anti -boom system
The system of dynamic stabilization
Multifunctional steering wheel
Adjustable steering column in height
Steering wheel decoration with leather
Salon decoration with leather
Electric drive and heating of external mirrors
Electr -glass lifts are front
Back seat
CD-audio system
Trip computer
Fog lights
Alloy wheels
Coloring metallic
Climate control mono
A roof with a panoramic view

Specifications
Body
Body type three -door hatchback
The number of places 4
Trunk volume, l 185
Equipped mass, kg 930
Length, mm 3546
Width, mm 1627
Height, mm 1488
Wheel base, mm 2300
Engine
Basin type with distributed fuel injection
Front location, transversely
Location and number of cylinders 4, in a row
Working volume, cm 1368
Cylinder diameter/piston stroke, mm 72.0x84.0
The degree of compression is 10.8
The number of valves per cylinder 16
Maximum power, L.S./rpm 100/6000
Maximum torque, Nm/rpm 131/4250
Transmission
The gearbox is mechanical, 6-speed
Front drive
The front suspension is independent, such as mcpherson
The rear suspension is semi -dependent, torsion
Front brakes disk, ventilated
The rear brakes are disk
Tires 185/55 R15
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h 182
Acceleration time 0-100 km/h, from 10.5
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
city cycle 8.2
country cycle 5.2
mixed cycle 6.3
Fuel tank capacity, l 35
AI-95 fuel
 
 
 

A source: Carclub.ru