The Fiat 500, which dates from 2007, will remain available for the time being alongside the equally new and electric 500e. The fact that it still looks so fresh is mainly due to the facelift from 2016.
With the electric 500e, a whole new chapter began for the Fiat 500 last year. According to Fiat, this new model is and will remain fully electric. However, if you want a Fiat 500 with a fuel engine (mild-hybrid), you can still opt for the existing model. That is quite striking, because with its birth year 2007, this first retro 500 is simply old by car terms. This can also be seen in addition to the new 500e, but in itself it is not that bad.
The last serious external update dates from 2016, but apparently does a good job of keeping the car up to date. The most striking change of 2016 can be found without a doubt in the rear lights, which were given a piece of ‘sheet metal’ in their center. The light itself surrounds it, which also provides a nice typical appearance in the dark.
However, the sliding plates below show that more has changed. For example, the bumpers at the front and rear were also overhauled. At the rear, this results in a lower chrome strip containing the combination of reversing light, rear fog light and reflector. That’s right: with those new rear lights above, there’s no room for that anymore. At the front, in the taut bumper, we find a larger unit for the city daytime running lights, which now consists of LEDs. The headlights of the xenon versions remain the same, but the – much more popular – halogen version gets modern-looking lenses in a kind of rounded triangle shape.
Brand logo, chrome strip, and the cooling vent above the license plate are all slightly higher. The air inlet at the bottom of the bumper was also tackled in 2016 and received a heavy load of chrome. The blue car below does have less chrome than most pre-facelift models, but even in such a case the difference is clearly visible. The sporty Abarth 500 does it with much less glimmer, but most of the changes presented in 2016 also apply here. Even in the interior, the traces of the facelift are clearly visible, thanks to a touchscreen that displaces the air vents.
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