Category: City Cars 
Price Range: £8,700 to £13,605
Powerful retro flavours matched with modern design, fun to drive, fabulous detailing.
Headroom is tight in the back, steering wheel not adjustable for reach, not much covered storage space.
See one, drive one and you'll want one.
All the new 500s are frugal on fuel, the diesel especially so with a 67.3mpg claimed figure for the official combined-cycle economy test. The 1.2 manages 55.4mpg and the 1.4 does 44.8mpg on this test, although as ever it would be surprising to see these figures matched in real-world driving. CO2 emissions are 149g/km for the 1.4, an impressive 119g/km for the 1.2 and just 111g/km for the diesel.
The figure 500 looms large in Fiat's servicing and finance offers, albeit based around kilometres and euros, so it won't sound quite to neat translated for the UK market next year. '500 Cents' is a package which costs five euros a day as part of a lease/purchase plan, while '50to500' calls for a 50% deposit with the final 50% payable after two years. Both of these deals come with '500 Free', which includes free servicing and breakdown recovery, plus taxi fares up to 50 euros while the car is in the garage. They also include a five-year or 500,000km (300,000 mile) warranty. It will be interesting to see how many buyers reach 300,000 miles within the warranty period.
