NF500 / girls car

Top Gear have a gushing and glowing feature on the new Fiat 500 now available to read online.

It’s an all out positive review, even the few faults that could be found by the reviewer are brushed under the carpet and washed out with enthusiasm for the baby Fiat, it’s one of the most rose tinted reports on anything, let alone a car, we’ve read for a very long time.  Top Gear is no small fry in the automotive world either, so Fiat will no doubt be delighted with the praise being lavished upon their new creation.

While the article is written by a male reporter, the photos, all nicely shot very much in “fashion magazine” style feature glamorous female models, which will no doubt serve to reinforce the gradual drip-drip effect that ever increases the 500s image as a “girls car”.  But just because it’s small and pretty doesn’t have to  limit the car’s appeal to the fairer sex, does it?

The review also mentions in passing that engineers snuck Top Gear the figures for the forthcoming Fiat 500 Abarth, quoting the 1.4 turbo as kicking out 170lb ft torque and 135bhp.

You can read the full review, titled “Sexy Little Number” on the Top Gear website.