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Fiat 500 TwinAir Sport MT

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Price: R281 900 0 to 100 km/h: 11,72 seconds Top speed: 173 km/h Power: 63 kW Torque: 145 N.m CAR Fuel index: 4,80 L/100 km CO2 : 88 g/km

A riotous swansong before an all-electric 500e inevitably enters the fray

Ray Leathern

Improved over the old car, but other small hatches offer more versatility

Nikesh Kooverjee

Peppy engine and generous spec makes for an appealing package

Damian Adams

e should probably qualify from the get-go that we love everything Italian. A sweeping statement, granted, but it’s true. How can you not love the nation that gave the world – among others – aqueducts, banking, opera, gelato, the mile marker, gondolas, the light bulb, newspapers and, of course, the supercar. The Italians were even the first to build dedicated motorways (autostradas), so there was somewhere suitable on which

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