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Really, how about a pint-sized car with 160 hp (= fast) that sounds like a Ferrari without resorting to ricer-style fart cans for exhausts and costs less than $25K? Sounds pretty cool to me.
What's there to like? The wheels? The pumpkin shape? The boring nose and headlamps? There's a difference between quirky and attractive. I give the 500L a quirky two thumbs down.
Fiat should go back to the direction they had in the 90's and early 2000's like this coupe:
Right. FIAT should have stuck to making coupes with ridiculous body kits. Noted.
The 500L has plenty to like (search this forum for a thread on that very specific vehicle). Yes, the wheels. Yes, the color. Yes, the shape - have you ever sat inside one of these things? Tons of innovative interior features, excellent visibility, lots of toys and, for 95% of the automotive buyers, better utility than your average gas-guzzling SUV. All the while, again, retailing for around $25K.
It was never meant to be the supermodel of the showroom - FIAT has Ferrari for that duty - but as far as being usable, inexpensive and not boring-looking, check, check and check.
I hope that someone in Fiat's R&D team gets on here to read our feed backs.
Right. Someone in FIAT's R&D department is reading a random thread hidden somewhere in a forum not specific to vehicles, started by someone whose grasp over the English language is tenuous, at best. Forget design clinics, market research and studio reviews - C-D is where it's at.
Hardly authorities on all things automotive. That's like reading Consumer Reports and expecting them to form an opinion on vehicles that are any different from your average Toyota Toaster...sorry, Corolla.
But the company's ad glorifying Immigration, and ridiculing Americans who object to it, was deeply offensive.
It's deeply offensive (as well as seen as glorifying immigration - by the way, is there something actually wrong with immigration?) only to those who are looking for the next thing to be offended by.
Really, how about a pint-sized car with 160 hp (= fast) that sounds like a Ferrari without resorting to ricer-style fart cans for exhausts and costs less than $25K? Sounds pretty cool to me.
Nope for that money I'd buy the Subaru BRZ. THAT sounds pretty cool to me.
Even a Nissan Altima is a better looking car for under 25K than the Pumpkinmobile.
I think yall missed the point of the thread. Car makers screw up and make ugly cars, it happens. It's usually when they have high demand and they don't think out the product before releasing it. I can go on and on about which car is better than which car, my question was since Fiat (which I have always liked and respected) built a bland, weirdly shaped car that won't work for mainstream, has it hurt their image as being a Cool, Hipster, Gas-Sipping car company?
Here's what Edmunds reviewers say about owning a 500L. The one's who love theirs love it, the others seem to be having mechanical issues that would prompt them to give poor reviews. Not many are complaining about the styling.
With that in mind, could you see yourself actually driving one of these?
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