Looks like Fiat is doing exactly what Mini is doing - offering pointless (and very ugly) models that uses the wrong names - ie Mini Clubman is not an estate, it was a sporty model.

So 500L is not the posh version, but a "L"arge version.

http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/motorshows/geneva-motor-show-2012/geneva-motor-show-2012-fiat-premieres-500l/

I thought they have something called the Panda to do the same thing, which is less obscene and expensive.

It doesn't even look like the 500!

That's really poor.

Did it hit EVERY branch on the way down?

Reminds me of the big slipper only old people buy.

The more I look at it, the more I dislike it.

I don't dislike ugly cars - I like the Ssangyong Rodius for instance (widely conceived as the ugliest car ever made) because it serves a purpose - ie carrying lots of passengers and their luggage better than any MPV in the market (apart from those Transit MPV thing) and is well priced (much cheaper than the Grand Voyaer).

The Fiat is just pointless and very ugly.

Fiat had something good and interesting going on with the ugly Multipla (which incidentally I like because of the 3x2 configuration).

Why can't they just recreate something like this:

At least it would be interesting!

Reminds me of the yeti.

Why are people surprized when fiat brings out an ugly looking car?? :wonder:

Why are people surprized when fiat brings out an ugly looking car?? :wonder:

Because they've been making good looking cars recently.

The normal 500 looks great, the Punto is showing it's age a bit now but was better than much of the competition, the Bravo looks good and the new Panda is great for a budget car.

The original Multipla was the last really bad looking one and even that had something about it that this doesn't.

I didn't mind the old dolphin faced Multipla. It was a real demonstration of function over form which was brave but didn't really work for them.

That 500L is just a shockingly bad attempt to cash in on the Clubman idea. Rush job ordered from marketing dept imho.

Err they have?

The 500 looks ok but all the others look like poo lol fiat making a range of cars that look ok? You'd have to go to specsavers if you saw owt like that lol

Err they have?

The 500 looks ok but all the others look like poo lol fiat making a range of cars that look ok? You'd have to go to specsavers if you saw owt like that lol

500 was good, the Abarth looks great, Panda 100HP looks great, the Punto has always been one of the best looking small hatches around but as mentioned is getting a little tired now, the new Panda looks good and the Bravo is a pretty good looking car.

Surely as Skoda drivers we can't claim that our cars are particularly easy on the eye. Non vRS Octavia's look pretty bland, Fabia II with the exception of the vRS and Monte look pretty hideous, and the Superb Estate is better looking than the Twin Door (and yes, I own a Twin Door). The nicest looking car Skoda make is probably the Yeti imho, and that still looks awkward from some angles.

That thing is hideous.Aspman has the right idea: this thing is marketing led. I would always keep it simple and go for a Fiat Panda over the niche and overpriced 500, especially as the new one will get the new twinair and will be more practical and cheaper than the 500. I think the previous Fiat Panda with the 1.2 Petrol is a great little car and upholds the tradition of cheap, simple, utilitarian small cars that Fiat have always had (the 1,3 Diesel Panda is too complicated in the engine department)