http://fiat500.com/news_interna.asp?menu_or=news&id=61

well good,
sign of the times

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scale from 1 to 10, 10 being the highest, l would give it a solid 4

Hairdressers car

very!

Smart!, what is under the bonnet though?...

its bella! l love FIATs, had a couple of 500 is back a few years, not the original unfortunately. It will be interesting to see how much it is!

Looks amazing, new punto gt sport looks great as well

it looks quite funky..its a fiat though.

well i'm not going to swap it for my Ferrari

Very cool. Italian chic! Plus, l read today that they're planning a 150bhp, 1.4 turbo engined version. As autocar said, who'd buy a cooper now?

l would thought you wold like the Rolf Royce car being cool instead

l am not the world is biggest fan of these recent 'retro' cars, but I've anticipated this car since the concept car from a few years ago.

l have to say that is is perhaps the best recreation of recent times. The new Beetle was a dressed-up Golf with a price-tag, & the Mini, while a decent enough car, is massive, pricey, & German. Oh, & did l mention the estate agent thing?

The new Fiat has clearly grown a bit, but does not appear to lose any of the cute styling of the old model, & of course, Fiat churns out some great small cars, so u can safely guess that this car is going to be more than an overpriced fashion statement. £8k for an entry-level 1.2 might not be budget car terretory, but it is entry-level Fiesta pricing.

The new 500 itself is based on the Panda, & if that is anythng to go by, it should be cracking to drive too.

Better still, they're planning to offer a version with the Panda 100HP engine.

Perhaps another thing making the 500 more appealing to me is perhaps that I've got a soft-spot for small Fiats. Although l grew up in the '90s, l remember an old Uno my dad used to own as a runabout fondly, while the CInquecento Sporting was the Mini Cooper of the time. l even remember tuning a classic 500 on Gran Turismo on my Playstation, getting a somwhat ambitious 140BHP out of the little engine. I've simply grown up with Fiat more than l have with Beetlss or even Minis

Should be a cracking little car come January, when we (finally) get it. Clearly the biggest test is whether it can make the same impact the new Mini has made on the new car market.

Quite cool, that is how cool.