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9. Fiat 500C

Fiat 500C

The Fiat 500C adds a fabric folding roof to the big-selling retro city car – and it does so in a way that only enhances the sense of fun.

Instead of compromising the cute design of the 500, Fiat opted to engineer a soft-top that folds back like the lid of a sardine tin. That way, the car’s neat dimensions and good looks aren’t diluted, and neither is the huge scope for personalisation – or indeed the interior or the boot size. The rear seats still fold to increase load capacity from 185 litres to 520 litres, as in the standard car.

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Buyers get the same choice of Pop, Colour Therapy, Lounge and hot Abarth models as with the regular city car, plus there are 1.2 and 1.4-litre turbo petrol engines and a 1.3-litre Multijet diesel. The highlight of the 500C range, though, is the clever 875cc TwinAir petrol model, which combines punchy 85bhp performance with low running costs – it delivers 70.6mpg fuel consumption, 92g/km emissions make it exempt from road tax and it has low insurance group ratings.

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