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The Panda has been an amazingly successful car for Fiat, especially here in Italy, where they are more common than pasta. They are cheap to buy and run, practical and great fun to drive. This all new car will be the first of a family of Pandas, which is weird as any zoologist will tell you it’s notoriously hard to breed them. These will include a bigger SUV, a coupe, and a mini-MPV. There will be a city car too, which will be the size you’d expect a Panda to be.
This one is called the Grande Panda and will arrive first in early 2025. The entire range of Pandas should be in showrooms by 2027.
That Grande name reflects the fact that it’s bigger than you might expect. It’s 3.99-meters long, which is a massive 30cm longer than the outgoing petrol Panda.
So it’s not a city car to rival the likes of the Dacia Spring and is more ‘supermini’ sized. That means it’s got to compete with the Renault 5,Hyundai Inster and BYD Dolphin. The price will be around £22,000 for the all-electric version – there will be a cheaper hybrid petrol too.
Fiat isn’t ashamed of its heritage and there are plenty of nods to the original boxy Panda from and the later models.
The Grande’s styling is a clever mix of the themes from the original 1980s Panda. Did you know that boxy first generation car was designed by the same man who did the Lotus Esprit, the original Golf and the, er, Ssangyong Rexton?
In homage to the classic Panda 4×4, the Panda letters are ‘embossed’ on the doors, and it has upright rear lights.
Under the bodywork, the Grande Panda shares its hardware with the Citroen e-C3. That’s no bad thing as it’s a car we like and helps keep cost low. This means we get a 44kWh battery, giving a range of 195 miles on the official test cycle. It will also have 100kW DC charging capability.
A clever little innovation is the tethered spiral charging cable, which promises to make the experience of plugging in easier and tidier. The Grande Panda is the first vehicle since the Renault Twizy to include an integrated charging cable, which works with AC chargers up to 7 kW. The spiral cable has a special housing in a hatch at the front of the car. This means you don’t need to carry a cable around in the boot and it avoids the grime of traditional cables.
Join Nicola as she takes a look around the Fiat Grande Panda for the first time. Has Fiat pulled it off? Will you be considering it for your next car? Let us know in the comments below.
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