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This Fiat Grande Panda is an EV version of the Grande Panda. It has 113 HP and the top speed is limited to 136 km/h, which is a real GPS speed too - so you can overtake with no problem on the highway. Acceleration is fine and fluent, this is the perfect car to switch from the petrol car.
Grande Panda has recycled materials in the interior. All blue plastics are made of Tetra Paks - boxes from juices, milks etc. There is also upper glove box made of bamboo fibers. All this materials do not absorb so much heat in the summer, than standard black plastics, so it is much easier to sit in the car in the summer.
Suspension is fine, on a softer side but it is loud on a big bumps. Also there is no special sound isolation, so in higher speed there is noticable aero noise.
Like in Opel Frontera, there are still bugs with gear leaver and parking sensors - you have to push gear leaver very fast to put car from P to D, 50 % of time you switch only to N. When Parking sensor starts it automatically turns on the music, which is pretty annoying.
Grande Panda, built on the multi-energy SMART-CAR platform, is destined for a worldwide audience thanks to the platform's flexibility, and is now available with its second powertrain: the hybrid.
The Brand marks a joyful return to the B-segment to enhance FIAT’s volume ambitions thanks to a smart, electrified, and smooth vehicle designed for urban mobility.
Starting at under €19,000, Grande Panda Hybrid gives families affordable access to electrified mobility.
Equipped with the new T-Gen3 engine, 110 HP with a 48-volt Li-ion battery and eDCT, it offers features like electric-only parking and city driving, with regenerative braking and enhanced efficiency.
The Grande Panda Hybrid features bold Italian styling and three trims (POP, ICON, LA PRIMA) and is now available at dealerships across Europe.
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This is the new Fiat Grande Panda and it's got some big shoes to fill. Well, not literally, but it arrives on the shoulders of one of Fiat's hottest selling models. So with a starting price of £18,975 and a design inspired by the original, is this another smash hit?
To thoroughly test this new Grande Panda in a manner befitting Panda usage, Sam Sheehan subjects the car to the worst of urban and suburban life, searching for potholes, speedhumps and kerbs. Its smaller sibling has long been celebrated for its ruggedness, so how does the four-metre-long Grande stack up in a world where the Renault 5 has already stolen the limelight?
The Grande Panda we're driving is the electric version, which sits above the Hybrid with a starting price of £20,975. It has a claimed range of 198 miles and features a clever built-in charging cable, which pulls out of the nose and means you don't need to fumble with cables in the boot. That's a key advantage vs the Renault 5, Citroen C3 and more.
There is a conventional cable in the boot, of course, and a faster charging port at the rear. But who doesn't love an integrated spaghetti charging cable? If you're wondering, it can charge at 7kW so takes 3.5 hours to fully top up the battery. You can swap to a spaghetti-free 11kW port on the nose to cut the charge time to 2.5 hours. Either way, if you use the normal port at the back, that's 100kW, so it's about 33 mins for 20-80% charge.
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- I've seen it IRL the other day, it looks like a weird cross between a Panda and a Jeep Renegade, so I guess this is the skeleton of the next Panda.- Good review. The car seems to me to be a perfect example of how to sell a cheaply built car for lot of money. (But aren’t they all the same these days..?) I’d personally rather buy a one or two year old high spec German car for the same money, but that’s just my opinion.
- The duck thing is amazing. My friend has a wrangler, we went camping in West Virginia, came out of the general store and there was a rubber duck sitting on his hood. The lady to started the foundation just happened to be there. Her son had passed from cancer so for the funeral, she asked people with Jeeps to come…amazingly, almost 200 Jeeps from across the US showed. Check it out. That’s why Jeepers ‘duck’.
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