‘i design cars for everyone’

It’s vanishingly rare that a new car is so well received it actually shifts perceptions of the company that created it even before anyone has sat behind the wheel. That’s the sort of instant impact of

The Fiat Grande Panda could easily have been dull and unimaginative. Something that, because of cost-cutting and its relatively low asking price, was bereft of unique, headline-grabbing features. But

1 FIAT GRANDE PANDA PRICE: £20,975–£23,975 The Panda was distinctly endangered for a while there (though you can still buy the old petrol one in Italy), but it’s been given a new lease of life with an

Fiat was founded in 1899 and opened its car-making factory and started building cars the following year. To mark 125 years since then, here are a few choice Fiat facts

Two simple cars: old 4x4 Fiat Pandas. One less simple plan: buy them in Europe, drive them 1000 miles to the UK. Probability of success: zero

It was at once an unsatisfying and actually a very satisfying verdict for a group test. When I put the revised Volkswagen Golf against a pair of rivals in the Toyota Corolla and Peugeot 308 last Augus