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

THE Panda has become famous for its varied and often quirky special editions, including the Mk3 Alessi, which was tied into the Italian kitchenware brand, and the Rossignol whose roof bars were magnet

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

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

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

Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (