We’re developing on one 12 months since I first leased my Fiat 500e, which suggests I am in all probability due for an replace someday quickly, however a part of the explanation I have not written extra about my expertise with the automotive is as a result of possession has been fairly uneventful. It might be a short-range electrical automobile constructed by Stellantis in Italy, however by some means, it hasn’t been the rolling catastrophe you in all probability anticipated. It is by no means stranded me, the one points I’ve had with charging have been the chargers’ fault, and it is at all times began and pushed each time I’ve tried to show it on.
Even after I took the 500e on a 760-mile highway journey, it carried out higher than anticipated. I, after all, needed to cease to cost extra ceaselessly than I might have if I would been driving a automotive with extra vary, however it was extra comfy by than I anticipated it to be after driving all day, and it did not catch on fireplace, which is at all times appreciated once you’re driving an Italian automotive. And whereas extra vary would have made that one highway journey go sooner, I do not suppose I would be prepared to pay extra for an even bigger battery since I so not often want extra vary than it already provides. Even in a rural space.
Is it probably the most thrilling each day driver an auto journalist might drive? Nope, however it does its job nicely, seems to be cute doing it, and has been low cost to run, whereas permitting me to put aside more cash to place into my girlfriend’s Mustang. I assume the 1964.5 fashions are particular or one thing? Regardless, it is a way more thrilling automotive than anything I might fairly hope to purchase.
I nonetheless have complaints
However simply because the 500e has been an (nearly annoyingly) dependable each day driver, that does not imply I feel it is excellent. Oh no. The extra time you spend in a automotive, the extra stuff you discover, and belongings you did not suppose could be that large of a deal at first can find yourself being among the most annoying stuff to take care of. And for me, that is the 500e’s solar visors. They are not utterly ineffective, however they could as nicely be any time the solar is not immediately in entrance of you however nonetheless excessive sufficient within the sky for the visor to dam it.
Positive, we’re speaking a couple of metropolis automotive that was designed to be one of many least costly EVs within the U.S., and higher solar visors would in all probability solely drive up the associated fee, however when (or if) Fiat redesigns the 500e, I actually hope it fixes the visors anyway. Even with sun shades on, it is simply extremely annoying not having the ability to block the solar, particularly since we aren’t speaking a couple of light-weight efficiency automotive like a Lotus or a Miata. Perhaps different homeowners do not thoughts as a lot, however I wish to go on the document and say that I do.
What about you, although? Is there something about your automotive that you simply hope will get mounted with the following redesign? It may well simply be one thing that annoys you, comparable to a solar visor or an inconveniently formed storage cubby, however I will enable for extra severe complaints, too. No matter it’s, you’ll want to inform us about it down within the feedback.