NEW FIAT PANDA REVEALED
New Fiat Panda appear Evolutionary administration sees third-generation Panda yield on smoother-edged look, able TwinAir engines and an £8k amount tag
The Fiat Panda has been befitting it simple for added than 30 years. And the new third-generation archetypal is set to stick to that formula, in a added avant-garde package. These are the aboriginal official pictures of the city-limits car, appear advanced of its admission at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month.
Since the aboriginal launched in 1980, added than 6.5 actor Pandas accept been awash beyond the globe, so it’s no abruptness that this latest adaptation marks a affable change rather than an advancing overhaul.
Even so, every allotment is cast new. The car has developed by a few centimetres, advocacy berth space. It’s now 3.65 metres continued – that’s 10cm added than the Fiat 500 – and provides affluence of amplitude for 5 adults. The autogenous is flexible, with a split-folding rear bench that slides aback and forth, while the foreground commuter bench folds to anatomy a table. Thinned-out backrests chargeless up added rear legroom, too.
While the all-embracing contour isn’t a abolitionist abandonment from the approachable Panda, the edges accept been softened, while the foreground end now matches newer models such as the Doblo and Qubo.
There are LED daytime active lights adapted beneath the headlamp clusters, while blacked-out B and C-pillars accord the consequence of a individual area of bottle active the abounding breadth of the car. Flared wheelarches are advised to accord a asperous feel – which is fitting, as a 4×4 adaptation will chase the barrage of the accepted front-wheel-drive archetypal after this year.
Engine choices bout the Panda’s fun and affordable angel – so topping the bill are a brace of TwinAir units. A commonly aspirated adaptation delivers 64bhp, while a turbocharged TwinAir has 84bhp. Both get stop-start as standard, and while Fiat has yet to absolution official abridgement figures, the cars are angled to acknowledgment 70mpg and afford beneath than 100g/km of CO2.
Also accessible is a 68bhp 1.2-litre petrol, while there’s a 74bhp 1.3 Multijet diesel. Expect prices to alpha at just over £8,000.
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