WHILE UK sales of the Mk2 Panda ended in 1995, production soldiered on until 2003, when the Mk3 arrived. It didn’t take long to see that there had been more than two decades of progress between the tw

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FEW car brands have managed to nail the small car formula quite as consistently as Fiat. Ever since the original 500 was launched back in the late fifties, buyers have bought Turin’s smallest cars by

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THE next decade saw buyers demand a little more from their small cars. They no longer needed to simply get from A to B, so brands needed to give drivers a more complete experience. More refinement, mo

WITH a name like Grande Panda, it’s no surprise to see the latest car dwarf the original model in terms of size. However, at 3,999mm long, it’s still dinky by modern standards – and 75mm shorter than