Category: City Cars 
Price Range: £8,700 to £13,605
Styling, interior, willing engine, handling
Illegible speedo in some versions; ride can be choppy; limited rear headroom
Fun to drive, fun full stop. Would be desirable at twice the price
If you go hunting, it's possible to dig up some dubious-quality plastics, but overall, Fiat has done an outstanding job to make the 500 feel special. It's a cut above other city cars and mercifully, as well as feeling special, it all feels well screwed-together too.
But will it be reliable? We expect so; as it shares most of its underpinnings and mechanicals with the now well-proven Panda, gremlins should have been ironed out.
