NEWS: Fiat 500C Has Questionable Appeal
As regular readers of IYF! will know, I'm a huge fan of the Fiat 500. It is one of a rare breed of cars that makes the driver feel absurdly special, is cute but not puke-worthy, and is a good representation of retro cool. What I love most, however is the attention to detail. Read my post How to do Retro Tastefully for more information on this stunning car. It even won my Really Cool Fashion Accessory Award for 2008.
But this attention to detail is completely missing in the new 500C. It's just a convertible version of the 500, but I'm missing the point of it. Why did they leave the sides intact when the fabric roof lifts off? It means that the fresh air isn't all around you, but just above you, where you won't feel it or see it, and the roof just ends up sitting on the back of the car, all crumpled up and disgusting. This is not stylish, this is just dumb. I would rather get a regular 500 with the panoramic sunroof - at least that way I'd have a normal looking car that didn't have a spastic coloured roof.
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February 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Its trying to utilise the idea Citroen put forward with the Pluriel (where you can have the sides up but roof down)
The thing is, if you have both the sides and roof down, and they both come up like a convertible, you often ruin the coupe's (or hatch's) original roofline. The 500's roofline really flowed nicely, so the reason why the sides were retained and the roof was fabric was because the roofline can be retained.
But I don't like this car; convertible versions of retro cars that never had convertible versions in the 1st place just try too hard, oh, and the lack of boot space is a worry too.
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