Wind Back Time
2008 Fiat 500
Specifications
Description
The original Fiat 500, often called the Cinquecento (500 in Italian) was a tiny car that was a large hit when introduced in 1957, so it remained on the market for close to 20 years.
Following the success of the modern Mini, it came as no surprise that the bosses at Fiat decided to have a go at a similar concept. This resulted in the launch of a retro-look but all-new Fiat 500 in 2007, exactly 50 years after the original and styling to match the earlier 500s was admired by all.
The new Fiat 500 is often still called the Cinquecento despite it having a range of engine sizes, all of them well over 500cc. It's a couple of sizes up on the old 500, partly to provide crash protection in the way of crumple zones and anti-intrusion bars, but also to give it reasonable interior space.
ABOUT THIS CAR
- A Mint Example.
- The engine starts easily and idles relatively smoothly from the moment it kicks over.
- Interior is extremely tidy and pretty well bulletproof.
- Straight dent free body - good paint
- Good tires
- Lovely car to drive
- Imported from Japan in 2017.
- Only two owners in NZ
This car is packed with delicious design details. There's a very well-judged blend of retro chic and ruthlessly modern contemporary design inside, with circular head restraints and iconic 500 badging on the Panda-sourced dashboard. The exterior treatment is cool and clean with only the front grille and door handles differing significantly from the Trepiuno show car. Hats off to Fiat in this regard. So often we see cars that look fantastic as prototypes on a show stand only to arrive in production form virtually unrecognisable.
Creating a small car that doubles as a fashion accessory isn't easy but if you've got a classic model that can be raided for retro design cues and evoke public nostalgia, you're halfway there.
The Fiat 500 is an impressive piece of work by Fiat.
Will be sold WOF'd and Registered.
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DISCLAIMER (PLEASE READ)
NOTIFICATION AS TO NATURE OF GOODS IN TERMS OF THE CONSUMER GUARANTEES ACT 1993
Waimak Classic Cars Ltd is a New Zealand registered company and accepts that the vehicle being sold must be of “acceptable quality” in terms of section 7 of the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (the Act) having regard to “the nature of the goods”.
Waimak Classic Cars is not aware of any specific defects with the vehicle, however (a) such a vehicle being a classic vehicle may have mechanical breakdowns, electrical failures at inconvenient times and maintenance costs being part of and parcel of ownership of a classic vehicle; (b) reliability is a combination of the particular nature of the classic vehicle, how it is being driven, how it has been maintained, and to a certain extent luck; (c) because of the age of the vehicle, and its propensity to rust, it is likely that the vehicle would have been fully or partially restored, or at least repainted at some point in its life, maybe even more than once. Waimak Classic Cars does not know, and cannot give advice on how good any restoration work on the vehicle had been.
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