Fiat Sheffield
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Tax, the price of oil and particularly the UK price of diesel mean that ECO is becoming increasingly important. Every manufacturer now has an mid size ECO diesel: Citroen with the C4 1.6HDI EGS, Peugeot with its 1.6HDI 308s, Ford with its Focus ECOnetic, VW with its Golf Bluemotion, and now FIAT with its new Bravo 1.6 Multijet in Sheffield.
Inside, the 500 features special instrumentation, with the addition of an analogue gauge to measure turbo pressure. An LED telltale that optimises gear changes by lighting up at the appropriate moment, is also incorporated.
Good: Comfortable hatch with a huge boot and good access to the front and rear seats in its very spacious cabin. Five-star crash test rating. Drives well.
Bad: Rear seats don't fold completely flat. Road noise on rougher surfaces.
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Good: Brilliant original concept. Better quality than original.
Bad: Brilliance made bland looking.
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Good: Well-equipped, good-looking and roomy hatch that's fun to drive. Five-star crash test rating.
Bad: You have to lift luggage (or the dog) over a high load sill in the boot.
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Good: Gorgeous looks, faithful to the original. Panda-like to drive. Big range of engines. Sensible price structure, £3k less than MINIs.
Bad: Built to order and no discounts. Choppy ride and handling. Extras add up.
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Inside, the 500 features special instrumentation, with the addition of an analogue gauge to measure turbo pressure. An LED telltale that optimises gear changes by lighting up at the appropriate moment, is also incorporated.
Get into the car and you are first confronted by a masterpiece of a panel. Body colour, like FIATs used to be, but plastic rather than metal. Read on the following article to learn more information about the vehicle on the market in Sheffield.
Good: Stunning looks. And they've fixed the handling. Huge fun for the summer.
Bad: £3,000 premium over hatchback (but it's worth it). Many UK orders not being met until September or later when summer is over.
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First, FIAT started building them for Ford, with a slightly different shaped body and suspension sorted out by Ford’s chassis engineers who, by using softer rear springs and adding an anti-roll bar to the rear twist-beam, made it both ride and handle better.
Good: Affordable open-top fun for cruisers. Cute retro looks.
Bad: Left-hand drive only. People trying to palm off over-priced personal imports as official UK cars.
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Good: Roomy cabin, big boot, stunning design and five-star crash test rating. Excellent 1.4 turbo petrol and 1.6 diesel. Low prices.
Bad: Initially a triumph of style over substance but the 1.4 T-Jet 150 is a stunning engine and the 2008 1.6 Multijet diesel shifts it up a star.
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The FIAT Bravo has the kind of stunning styling that Italians somehow seen to do almost effortlessly. In the right colour it's probably the best looking mid-size hatchback you can buy in Sheffield.
Good: Decent drive and very cheap to buy these days. HGT is a nicely balanced hot hatch.
Bad: Can have a few problems, but not usually expensive to fix.
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Tax, the price of oil and particularly the UK price of diesel mean that ECO is becoming increasingly important. Every manufacturer now has an mid size ECO diesel: Citroen with the C4 1.6HDI EGS, Peugeot with its 1.6HDI 308s, Ford with its Focus ECOnetic, VW with its Golf Bluemotion, and now FIAT with its new Bravo 1.6 Multijet in Sheffield.
FIAT has embraced some impressive new Microsoft technology called Blue&Me that mixes Bluetooth hands-free phone, entertainment, information, satellite navigation and telematics in a low priced package that outperforms and beats aftermarket kit, and is readily upgradeable with updated mapping.
Good: Town-friendly proportions. You'll always find a parking space for it.
Bad: Small boot, no power steering, no full-sized spare wheel and not that well built.
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Good: Stylish design, both inside and out. Enjoyable front-drive handling. The Turbo model is very quick.
Bad: Too many problems with build quality and mechanical parts, notably engine-related grief.
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Good: Comfortable hatch with a huge boot and good access to the front and rear seats in its very spacious cabin. Five-star crash test rating. Drives well.
Bad: Rear seats don't fold completely flat. Road noise on rougher surfaces.
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It’s a bit taller than the norm, so you sit slightly more upright. It’s easier to get in and out of. You can almost ‘walk into it’ like you can with a Ford C-Max. And it’s very comfortable, for up to five 6’ adults with all their luggage.
Good: Deliberately crude, ugly and utilitarian looking. Bigger than Berlingo. Available with 7 seats. Best with 1.3 Multijet diesel. Handles decently.
Bad: Deliberate utilitarian looks. Problems with turbos of 1.9 diesels.
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Peculiar looking contraption, the Doblo. Deliberately styled to look utilitarian, almost like a pastiche of a 1930’s hotel bus. The kind of car you could bump in a carpark with an even chance of it ending up looking better.
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The one and only criticism is that, to achieve the car’s excellent torsional rigidity, the hatchback sill is quite high. No good for dogs to jump over, for example. And impossible to load something like a mobility scooter. Read on for more information about the hatchback in Sheffield.
Good: Well-equipped, good-looking and roomy hatch that's fun to drive. Five-star crash test rating.
Bad: You have to lift luggage (or the dog) over a high load sill in the boot.
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Good: Clever rear seat design increases its versatility. Good looks.
Bad: Strong competition from Mitsubishi Colt 5-dr and Renault Modus.
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FIAT's Idea is a very interesting little car in Sheffield. It's cutely good looking. It isn't gimmicky. It's all about packing as much versatility as possible onto the same size footprint as the Punto.
Good: Dead cheap these days. Handles well. Estate version makes more sense than saloon.
Bad: Awful build quality. Very poor result in JD Power Customer Satisfaction Survey.
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Good: Brilliant, eccentric superbly practical 6-seater.
Bad: Let down by execution. Poor quality trim. Mechanical problems as they age.
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The cab is 'walk-through' (or shuffle across) with no console, gear lever or handbrake in the way to impede progress from side to side. The front seats can't be removed, but the centre one can be replaced by a factory fitted 18 litre refrigerator. Read on to learn more about the vehicle available on the market in Sheffield.
Good: Brilliant original concept. Better quality than original.
Bad: Brilliance made bland looking.
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Good: Cheap to buy and run. Practical small car. 'Fire' engines just keep on going.
Bad: Rust, which weakens an already lightweight structure. Very basic inside. Unsettled ride quality.
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Good: Tiny, narrow, practical and packed with the brio you expect of a FIAT. Brilliant control panel.
Bad: Double folding rear seats not standard.
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It’s cheap. It’s cheerful. And it’s European Car of the Year 2004. The first thing that strikes you is its cuteness. It’s smaller and sweeter than it looks in pictures. You instantly want to like it.
It looks terrific. Like a souped-up small FIAT should. A basic, upright tiny utility car with fat alloys, chunky tyres and a special grille. It's good inside, too, with supportive seats, nice steering wheel and the same brilliant centre switchgear arrangement of all Pandas.
Good: Astonishingly capable off road. Stuffed with character and verve. Practical. Superb control panel.
Bad: No diesel version in UK until August 2008. A front-drive Panda rides better.
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It’s hard not to love the FIAT Panda. Chic, cheerful, small and cute. European Car of the Year 2004, it’s comfortable, fun to drive, has the best-designed control panel of any car anywhere and comes in some great solid colours, including Guacamole green, Vanilla yellow and a kind of creamy turquoise.
Good: Low prices and equally low running costs. Easy to get in and out of. In its day, the best small hatch there was.
Bad: Feels outdated now. Unsettled ride and mediocre handling. Patchy reliability record.
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Good: Better than the original Punto in almost every way. Excellent driving environment, easy to get in and out of, practical and inexpensive to run.
Bad: Thick rear pillars on 3-door obscure your vision. Reliability should be better.
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If anything, the ride and handling have improved. It may be a bit softer than the first of the phase II Puntos, but it needed to be. It grips, handles and steers well enough, providing you don’t inadvertently press the ‘City’ mode steering button and really frighten yourself because that’s strictly for parking.
An added bonus, available with the 1.25 Multijet diesel only, is FIAT’s Dualogic 6-speed automated manual gearbox that is obviously going to go down very well with Motability customers in Sheffield. Read on to learn more information about the car in the following article.
Good: Useful small family MPV with sliding side doors, 2,500 litre capacity and option of 6-speed Dualogic automated manual with 1.25 diesel engine
Bad: Ride quality in the back far from brilliant.
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