The Fiat 500’s ugly big sister

Fiat has taken its 'adorable' 500 and created a lumbering, bloated mutant in the 500L. But in a good way.

Fiat has taken its "adorable" 500 city car and "larged it", says Martin Love in The Observer. The 500 became a "mighty bestseller" due to its "unmatched combination of retro chic, metrosexual attention to dinky detailing and honest practicality". But the trendy urbanites who bought it have grown up and started families.

This is Fiat's response: the 500L, "a lumbering, bloated mutant hobbling off the production line like one of Cinderella's ugly sisters". But in a good way. For "in a world of anodyne anonymity, there is a place for the unlovely, the teeth-grindingly gruesome". And once you sit inside and drive it, you'll be convinced that Fiat knows what it's doing, says Love.

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