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The sea is positive and very little history of Fiat 500 on a shelf in children's and on city asphalt.
Eh, why does childhood go irrevocably?! About 15 years ago, I could not think about another birthday gift than a new five hundred. And even if it would be a copy of 1:24, it would definitely stand on a shelf among other models. Or the real she is also placed on the shelf almost! Would become a decoration of the collection: who else of his contemporaries also frantically profess the alluring style of the 60s?
Its ancestor, 500 Nuova, is a rich story: it was with her that it was once scribbled by the appearance of a humpbacked Cossack, which is not surprising: the engineer Dante Giacosa saw a cheap car for the city in a five hundred hundredth, and this is exactly what the worker of the country of Soviets needed. Of course, the hazes were not so elegant, but they realized many Soviet citizens.
There are no more charming retro models than the current Fiat 500, today. Chrysler Pt Cruiser scares with a rough appearance, Dodge Challenger at a price, and fiat at least now take it on the floor in the living room, it is so toy!
But it was not created for parquet: under narrow 16-inch wheels, real asphalt! Small, in appearance, doors in fact hide a decent opening, the front seats are quite an adultly propagate sides.
Plastic overlage on the width of the front panel, a successful parody of a whole metal console Fiat 500 1957. In fact, the metal turned out to be thick plastic, but under white varnish (there are still many coloring options), the desired visual effect is achieved quite quickly: how does it look like that machine , from the 60s!
In the first minutes, the interior of the five hundredth captivates and inspires respect for such an adult way. Here and comfortable, by the arm, the lever of the gearbox; and interesting devices; and design two in one; and stylish door handles
Only now, sitting down in Mini Cooper, you feel the spirit of eternal classics literally every nerve ending of your fingers, and in Fiat 500 it begins and ends on a metal lining. Design, aesthetics, convenience is not offended by a retro-boy, but from most solutions a mile away blows a remoteion.
The rear chair, exquisite in appearance of the form, in fact turned out to be terribly cramped. The trunk is tiny. The back shelf with a width of the palm is even funny. But this is not visible from the side, so you can collect the smiles of neighbors in the stream who in bulk at the wheel of Fiat 500 without tension. It looks like a car that has not been enough on city streets for so long: a cute, positive birth from those times when the girls wore a high waist skirts, and the guys were gray double -breasted jackets. To play history is so fun! And to watch how others play, and that is more fun.
The game is more serious to travel to the streets. Hey, who is new? Drivers are not up to the side of the curb and shake towards my white kolobok. Yes, only the viewing session is small: Fiat 500 is cheerful from the traffic light to the traffic light, it will not be maneuvering, but to rearrange itself in the stream, like a chess figure.
A good pickup after three thousand and a confident craving up to five. Yes, he is not so toy! But only with the Sport mode on. For me, it remained a mystery to me why it was necessary to display the mode of an acute accelerator on a separate key. Without it, it seems that half of the herd under the hood of Fiat simply fell asleep. If you go alone, nothing yet, but with two passengers on board the darkness. He crawls, puffs the five hundred, but is in no hurry to work out the declared 100 liters. With.
The lying policeman is where the games are ending. We have three on board! What does it mean? Sh-sh-sh, the front wheel is answered, which rubs the front arch locker with an abscription with artificial unevenness. No, if winter wheels are not higher than the fourteenth diameter. Or always ride one, otherwise the plastic protection of the front arches will fall off in a couple of months. But from the outside it is not visible: the baby looks excellent under any load
In the straight line and in the corners, where the workers managed to patch up the fiat fiat and potholes in the spring in the spring, the retro-component machine evaporates and evaporates. Good, predictable car!
At speed, the steering wheel is poured with a pleasant effort, and the exchange rate stability is not at all children's. The brakes are also excellent, tenacious; Even under load, the little car stops very confidently. And this is good: playing Fiat 500 is better in safety.
   
When our observer Roma Zubko gathered in Italy a year ago, his colleague Inna supplied him with the order: Fuck me there the five hundredths!. Of course, the girl’s heart was touched by the eyes of the eyes of the eyes and the hunchbacked nape of Fiat, for that, because the car was created! But would she move to Fiat 500? Yes, not in life! She is much nicer to another Italy is fast and hot: until recently, she drove Alfa Romeo 147.
And the place of the five hundredth in the corner of the heart and in the frame for photos. It was better to dream about him and admire it from afar, because in fact there were not so many in the car in the car in the car.
For the role of expensive modeling (if there is a need for such), migrated from a dusty shelf to the garage, Fiat 500 is almost perfect. Another young lady will ride on it on weekends, without problems park on the heel and twist the heads of passers -by. And play, play
So I could not be imbued with the spirit of the revived cult at the wheel of Fiat 500. But he played ahead for six months in advance.

Author: Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 

 

Source: Wheel magazine [March 2009]