Fiat 500 1.2 can't climb hills.

"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
11/25/2014 at 09:39 • Filed to: None

Anyone heard about this? Apparently the car is so gutless it's near impossible to climb a hill. While the video (in the link below) does make the car seem gutless I also kinda think better driving would help. I know it's supposedly a pro driver but he appears to be making the car look worse than it is. Complaining about revving it above 3000rpm to get power too, he should try getting my girlfriends 1 litre micra with a sticky throttle cable up a hill. If i can manage that (with a huge amount of accidental wheelspin I admit) he can surely get that fiat going.

http://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/fiat-…

Also dont buy the base car and complain about lack of power, that's why I got the biggest engine available for my Panda (diesel torque FTW).

DISCUSSION (15)

Leon711 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/25/2014 at 09:52

the complaint was that a retune for better emissions has sacrificed drivability.

Cé hé sin > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/25/2014 at 09:54

He should take the handbrake off. My mother has a 1.2 automatic Micra and it goes up hills just fine. You wouldn't take four people and a loaded trailer with it but then if you had that kind of requirement you wouldn't buy a car like that in the first place.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Leon711
11/25/2014 at 09:56

Yeah it said it was the euro 6 compliance giving it shitty throttle response, but most cars are like that now. I imagine if they tested other base model superminis you'd get a similar result.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Cé hé sin
11/25/2014 at 09:58

Exactly.

Leon711 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/25/2014 at 09:59

Uncomfortable truth time, the owners are driving them the way nature intended, which is flat out.

Cé hé sin > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/25/2014 at 10:07

Mind you having clicked on the link there does seem to be some issue with cars made in the last few months with Euro 6 compliant engines. Seemingly older ones are fine but the new, clean, green ones have a flat spot you could lose a bus in.

KirkyV > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/25/2014 at 10:07

My 1.1 106 manages hills just fine with nine fewer horsepower, though I imagine it's a good deal lighter than the 500. I feel like anyone who complains about having to rev a bit to get power has never driven an ordinary supermini. They're designed to be driven that way.

davedave1111 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/25/2014 at 10:15

Of course the 500 will happily make it up any hill. To move a 1 tonne car up a 1-in-10 hill at 60km/h takes roughly 22 bhp of power output (to overcome the hill, marginally more to overcome rolling- and minimal wind- resistance), so it's not even close.

You've missed the real story there: finally we have proof of my theory that Ben Collins was never actually the Stig.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Cé hé sin
11/25/2014 at 10:38

Yeah I got that, it's just that I know of many small cars with awful throttle responses and I haven't seen any other car get attention like this.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > davedave1111
11/25/2014 at 10:39

Interesting...

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > KirkyV
11/25/2014 at 10:41

Yep that's what got me. He complains he has to rev to 3000 rpm to get power. In my girlfriends micra you're looking at 4500rpm to pull away on a mild hill haha.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Leon711
11/25/2014 at 10:42

I'm not so sure.

p33t - wagons 4 lyfe > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/25/2014 at 14:00

my first car was this cars predecessor, a 1996 Fiat Cinquecento. It had the 8v 1.1 litre version of the same F.I.R.E engine. Not once did I ever have a problem getting up a hill, and I drove that thing EVERYWHERE!! just needs more revs!!

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > p33t - wagons 4 lyfe
11/25/2014 at 15:41

Yep, good clutch control and more revs can get most low powered cars going. The less power you have the better the driver needs to be.

fhrblig > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/25/2014 at 22:14

I call bullshit. I've owned 2 Chevy Sprints that each only had 48 hp at their disposal, at high altitude no less. I could make them climb hills. They couldn't do it fast, but they could do it. Sure, once I had to pull over for traffic going over La Veta Pass, but that was an altitude of 9400 feet.