Vehicle
Fiat 500L
Not a large 500 — a different car entirely, on the Small Wide platform shared with the Jeep Renegade rather than on the 500's Mini platform, built in Serbia and roughly a metre longer. Its engines are the MultiAir turbo fours and the MultiJet diesels, and the North American cars use a dual dry-clutch automatic whose shudder and clutch-adaptation faults are the complaint that dominates them. Anyone treating it as a stretched 500 will order the wrong parts for almost everything.
Generations
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330 2012–2022
Sold as 500L, Trekking and Living (a seven-seat long version) depending on market. The 2017 facelift revises the nose and the interior.
- Body styles
- MPV
- Platform
- Fiat Small Wide
- Engines
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- 1.4 four-cylinder — petrol · 70 kW (94 hp) · 127 Nm (94 lb-ft)
- 1.4 turbo — MULTIAIR · petrol · 89 kW (120 hp) · 206 Nm (152 lb-ft)
- 0.9 TwinAir — petrol · 77 kW (103 hp) · 145 Nm (107 lb-ft)
- 1.3 MultiJet — diesel · 62–70 kW (83–94 hp) · 200 Nm (148 lb-ft)
- 1.6 MultiJet — diesel · 77–88 kW (103–118 hp) · 320 Nm (236 lb-ft)
- 1.4 TurboJet — CNG bi-fuel · Natural Power
- 0.9 turbo — petrol · 77 kW (103 hp) · 145 Nm (107 lb-ft)
- Transmissions
- 6-speed dual-clutch · 5-speed FPT C510 manual · 6-speed FPT C635 manual · 6-speed Aisin AW60T-6F25 automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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