Fiat 500 2016 Video Review

You’ve got to go - it’ll be funny, the boss said. You’re crazy tall and it’s really tiny, we want to see you standing next to it and then trying to fit your legs into it, he said. So like some sort of circus freak I headed to the launch of the new Fiat 500. The one that looks like a scoop of ice cream, the retro version of the ’50s Italian car, yes, that one. But having clocked up close to a thousand kays in one not that long ago I knew that the only seat I’d be squashed into would be the one on the plane to Melbourne to drive it.

This new 500 is really an upgrade of the previous one. Actually this is essentially the same car that first went on sale in 2008 and it’s an upgrade of an upgrade of an upgrade, but Fiat calls it the 500 Series 4.

What’s changed this time? The styling, the line-up, standard features and, ahem, the price. Sounds like a lot has changed but it hasn’t really.

Read the full Fiat 500 2016 review.