Narration. This is what Fiat CEO, Olivier François, says he separates Fiat from the wave of new affordable Chinese electric vehicles. He is absolutely the narrator himself, has an Instagram full of contacts on list A and fortunately admits that the new great Panda Big Panda will have to be a box office success.
“Heritage is the key,” he explains. “Our design is based on our inheritance, and it is through chance. It is an intelligent way to reassure our customers. There are new brands but, hey, come and go. We have been here for 125 years, and we are here to stay. “
As with the new Renault 5, the Panda Grande implies with palpable confidence. With his video LED video of the 80s, the video game pixels in the 80 lazy retro. Credit to the designer outside the doors François Leboine and his equipment, seems new to undeniable metal wheels. (It shows that Leboine did the R5 before leaving Renault).
“Panda” is registered in a low relief letter on the side, in case you are the call of the car, and can be filled with protective filling. The Fiat logo and the 4 -bar monogram, which arrived 40 years ago in the one, combine and combine the seats, the edge of the door and the wheel arch and are engraved with the laser in the Pilar C. All The other people involved, you feel, brought their game. Including those unknown heroes of the product manufacturing plans service.
In the United Kingdom, Panda’s costs begin at £ 20,975 for the network access version, going to £ 24,000 for the high specification model. Soon there will be a less expensive hybrid of 1. 3 liters, but for the moment, the emphasis is put in the completely electric model, with its diversity of about two hundred miles. It is the car that promises to do for the EV what the effectiveness of Nuova 500 has done for the mobility of Italian mass when the oscilpast dolce vita doubted in the last decade of 1950.
The masterful packaging is the component of its DNA, but the original 1980 panda is the clearest inspiration for the new car. This is designed through the teacher Giorgetto Giugiaro, still alive and Trail cycling at the age of 86, and a guy who rejects his contribution to automotive design as an undeniable “problem solving” resolution.
Well, there is a lot to move in affordable electric cars. Several versions of the new Panda are waiting on the wings, however, the large one reaches the measurement of a shy lonely millimeter 4 meters in length. In fact, the original has been created to imitate the rustic charms of the Renault 4, and to date, the 4×4 versions of the Panda can be noticed in remote and in fact elegant portions of Italy. Without the planned version of all wheels, Fiat leans strong enough in the concept of utility in the Panda, with intelligent internal garage spaces and a slightly higher position and visibility. A UV UV. They may catch it.
Fiat Grande Panda
Note: 8/10
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In the sense that the manufacture of cars, the new Big Panda is only imaginable thanks to the synergies in the paintings in the Fiatriz Corporation of Fiat, Stellantis. It uses the new global architecture of the group of “smart car” of the group, a successful modular platform that underlies Citroën C3 and Vauxhall Frontera, and can settle for pure, hybrid and electric combustion.
Larger and smaller batteries are being developed, however, the Panda, with its 361 liters of initial space, get a 44 kWh battery, an 83 kW electric motor and a beach reviewed through WLTP of 199 miles of rivals As Renault Five and Hyundai Inters better, but they are also more expensive. Fiat Bance housing owners in Panda are basically urban types, so the sensitive balance of battery / diversity is probably almost correct.
They will appreciate the incorporated load cable 4. 5 meters long, which is perfectly stored in a special receptacle hidden a logo shutter in the car’s nose. It is only evaluated up to 7 kW, so intelligent for anyone with a parking lot outside the street and a domestic wall changer. Less useful in the city.
You can load the battery in 20 to 80% in 3 hours 43 minutes, says Fiat. It can oppose 11 kW AC, but the same rear load port as the DC to recharge quickly works, so we don’t care. Find a one hundred kW charger and the small Fiat bill of 20 to 80% in 33 minutes.
To drive, the panda is as intelligent as it is mandatory and no more. The number one commands are weighted without flooding their senses in a sensation or feedback, and a time of 0 to 62 mph 11 seconds summarizes more or less the attitude of the “whatvs” of the panda towards the performance. It also has a very sensible speed that can reach, since it only has 82 mph. Once again, it will do very well, and on Italian B roads and the autosted, we have tried it, it feels animated, skillfully corners and is well amortized.
Even in the maximum knotted areas, it serves a flexibility of giant cars. Same important, it is subtle at the speeds of the road, with modest amounts of wind or noise from the road. In the combined driving in climates without blood, on average we were on average 3 miles consisting of KWH, for a genuine scope of 132 miles. Wait more when the sun shines, and if it drives more significantly. We would say that 150 Miles UPS.
Fiat Grande Panda
Note: 8/10
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Track department assistance and a speed restriction alert are provided and a Bong with a frustrating step. However, separate switches eliminate these intrusions. However, apart from a “C” for the coast, you will look in vain for any driving mode. Not this type of car.
But also goes, because there is internal visual entertainment of the Panda. The board itself is an elongated oval that mimics the remarkable construction of Fiat Lingotto (which with the verification track on the ceiling, as it appears in the Italian paintings of the years 1969). The seats, registered with a message “Panda made with love in Fiat” and the motive “Squill”, are great. The main tools use an imaginative and legible source and the touch screen is easy to use. Reflecting the phone is simple. And the designers have done everything in sustainability: each giant panda includes the recycling curtain of 140 drinker boxes, using 20% that cannot be recycled in the plastic of the blue mixes on the edge of the door.
Prima cars – Specifications Download a garage compartment in front of the passenger that uses genuine bamboo fibers. The rear seat area is more than enough. We also love Perspex at the end of the board, vertical ventilation mouths and abundant garage areas. Fiat calls it “emblematic ironic. ” We are satisfied that they did not write it internal as well.
The great access panda pand access to access the information and entertainment screen for a smartphone.
The access level style receives rotating controls for air conditioning, which in fact are preferable to elegant garrison buttons. Number one forces subtleties such as the heating seat and a guide wheel, an investment chamber and a wireless load for your phone. You don’t want much more.
But it can do it less. In an even less expensive European edition of the Grande Panda, Hybrid Pop (about $ 19,600), which will not come to the United Kingdom, Fiat has absolutely eliminated the Infodity screen. Instead, you have an incorporated one that allows you to use your smartphone as a control system. It is an orderly and economical selection that reflects the way in which safe internal designs are more and more minimalist. Some could miss the built -in screen, however, there will be many others who will like such an elegantly frugal option. In a thought, Fiat has installed a USB port right next to the support to keep the phones loaded.
From what we gather, this urban EV is “under study” for the United States has not yet been shown, which can intrigue Fiat of Fiat himself founded on Ny de Wired. The Big Panda is an smart car, manufactured through an intelligent organization of engineers and vendors that have spent effective in all the right places. You will not want to know the story of Fiat to get it, but it is an advantage if you do. We who will be many people with EV, which provides this specific story with a new turn.
Fiat Grande Panda
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