FIAT 500 VS. HONDA FIT

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FIAT 500 VS. HONDA FIT

FIAT 500 Honda Fit

The Fiat 500, or Cinquecento, is not only the first Italian car to finish our long-term, 40,000-mile evaluation*, it’s also the first new Fiat available in the U.S. since the company packed up shop here in 1984. Introduced as a 2012 model following the company’s tie-up with Chrysler, the 500 is a frothy little cappuccino of a hatchback. And if the arduous 17 months it took to complete our test is any indication, the sheer vastness of what is the world’s second-largest car market is the greatest challenge this car faces.

Despite the 1.4’s small capacity and our Fiat’s EPA city/highway ratings of 30/38 mpg, the lack of a sixth gear and the frequency with which our 500’s accelerator nailed the floorboard limited it to 33 mpg overall. That’s about average for most of the B-segment cars we’ve tested, as is the 340-mile range from the 10.5-gallon tank.

We initially joked that our wee paisano might fall victim to an inattentive driver in a big truck, but the chuckles ended when a Dodge Dakota pickup actually did try to back over it in traffic, impaling the 500’s bumper cover, passenger-side fog light, and washer-fluid reservoir with its frame-mounted hitch. When confronted, the truck’s passenger noted that they’d have seen us if we “weren’t driving that little shitbox.” That cultural exchange cost us a trip to the body shop and $1088 in repairs.

FIAT 500

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