(Mar 5) – The new Fiat 500L will make its public debut at the Geneva Motor Show tomorrow. After the Abarth and Cabrio versions, Fiat introduces the Large – short name 500L – to catch a new range of customers. Just as the 500 is the super-compact car perfect for the young and for the city, “Fiat 500L – as the company states – reformulates the category of compact cars for the modern family in an emotional vein by developing some of the 500’s winning emotional elements in unprecedented forms. It is a perfect match between solutions to make life simpler, with the generosity of a passenger room which is a benchmark for the category”. The 500L was designed by the Centro Stile Fiat which drew inspiration from the cab forward concept, a modern reinterpretation of a car concept designed to achieve better external visibility and a large amount of internal light, “to improve the sense of command of the road and to make parking manoeuvre easier”. These is the size of the new “Cinquecento”: 414 cm long, 178 cm wide and 166 cm high with a capacity of almost 400 liters that is able to hold up to 5 suitcases or a full-size push chair. Fiat 500L will be introduced in Europe in the last quarter of 2012 with two petrol engines (1.4 liter and TwinAir) and one turbodiesel (1.3 Multijet II) available. (Ram/Peg)
