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Fiat 500 TwinAir Plus review
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Two-cylinder beast
25 January 2012 15:19 GMT
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We try not to get too hung up with engine size, the torque curve, 0-60 times and the like here at Pocket-lint. But for this Fiat 500 TwinAir review, forgive us if we make an exception to our own rule. Why? We hear you ask. Well, this 500’s only...
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Nokia Terminal Mode wants cars to embrace phones
One connection and system to rule them all 4 March 2010 17:48 GMT TweetMobile phone makers have only just managed to come to some kind of agreement over standardising the power socket, but that isn't stopping Nokia lobbying for a unified way of connecting your phone to your car.
Talking at the Geneva Motor Show,...
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"Hunk" painting car pink with nail varnish live on Web
Comment: New Fiat publicity stunt quite literally like watching paint dry... 22 January 2010 15:36 GMT TweetYou might well ask why, as indeed I am, but a Welshman is attempting to paint a Fiat 500 pink, live online, using tiny pots of nail varnish to try and get a Guinness World Record, as well, of course, as gaining some publicity for Fiat's new, limited...
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Fiat 500 smallest car to achieve 5-star safety
Cute and incredibly safe 30 August 2007 21:34 GMT TweetThe impossibly cute new Fiat 500 has become the first ever car of its size to achieve top marks for accident safety.
The Euro NCAP five-star crash safety rating, which looks at all aspects of driver and passenger protection, is reserved for... -
Fiat warms up its Grande Punto
T-Jet powers into showrooms 3 August 2007 20:25 GMT TweetFiat has added a hot (more like warm) hatch to its Grande Punto lineup.
The 1.4 T-Jet 120 Sporting features a turbo-charged petrol engine without compromising too hard on emissions and fuel consumption. Available in both three- and five-door... -
Fiat 500 gets makeover for 2007
Launched to mark 50th anniversary 21 March 2007 21:22 GMT TweetFiat has taken its iconic Fiat 500 the way of the VW Beetle and BMW mini and revamped it for the 21st century.
Releasing details earlier today, the new 500 will be launched in Turin on July 4, the 50th anniversary of the launch of the original... -
Fiat Grande Punto Abarth announced
The sporting brand returns 28 February 2007 19:20 GMT TweetFiat is relaunching one of the motor industry’s legendary performance and sporting car brands at next week’s Geneva International Motor Show.
The wraps are coming off the new Grande Punto Abarth, the first of a new range of high performance... -
Fiat launches new look Fiat Bravo
Bravo, Fiat 27 October 2006 12:46 GMT TweetFiat (stop yawning at the back) has stunned everyone by unveiling its best looking car in decades - the new Fiat Bravo.
Available from summer 2007, the Bravo sure is pretty. A curved, wedge-lie shape and a ridiculously raked waste line and... -
New top-of-the-range Panda to be unveiled at the MPH '06 show
Panda-dah 20 October 2006 10:08 GMT TweetItalian, powerful and iconic … it’s either a Ferrari or Jake La Motta, si?
Actually it’s the Panda 100HP … the new range-topping city car in the Fiat catalogue. The 100bhp "goliath" is making it’s debut at the MPH’06 show later this month,... -
Fiat 500 named as World's Sexiest Car
Ferrari and Aston Martin miss out 30 July 2006 15:35 GMT TweetYou would expect that the title of the World's Sexiest Car would go to a Ferrari, or maybe an Aston Martin, but not a Fiat, surely?
Well according to Top Gear Magazine who asked its readers to vote for the world's sexiest car the Fiat 500 came... -
Panda crosses the English Channel
Water-jet propelled of course 23 July 2006 18:45 GMT TweetA panda crossed the English channel on Friday to the amazement of French and English holiday makers.
Yes, you read that right, however the panda in question wasn't of the black and white furry variety, but a Fiat Panda Terramare 4 designed...