Fiat 500L Minivan available in Italy and Europe

The new Fiat 500L Minivan will now be available for booking orders in Italy and major European markets from July, 2012. Though the deliveries are scheduled for the month of October, but the new photos and the videos of the minivan have been wired on net. It has been speculated that the sales of the new Fiat 500 will start in more than 100 countries around the world during the year 2013.

The second addition in the Fiat 500 family is five seater, tall B- segment model which has a large MPV like figure and an overall look of an SUV. The ride height has been raised in the minivan which promises to be a more spacious version of the 500 city car that also maintains the vehicles chic styling.

As the new Fiat 500L has been built on the platform of Punto, under the sheetmetel of the minivan one can find a developed engine called as 'Small Wide' by Fiat. The vehicle is 4,410mm long with a width of 1,780mm and a complete height of 1,660mm. The new Fiat 500 is 594mm longer than the three-door 500 along with an increased width of 153mm and an increment in the height by 175mm. At the same time, the new 500 is 32mm longer, 99mm taller and 9mm slender from the waistline of the higher scaled and expensive Mini Countryman.

The Italians claim that the vehicle can easily accommodate five passengers who are two meters tall, along with their luggage (boot space- 400 litres). European market will have a choice of three engines, including Fiat's 0.9-liter two-cylinder TwinAir turbocharged petrol with 104hp, 1.4-liter naturally aspirated petrol rated at 94hp and a 1.3-liter turbo-diesel delivering 84hp.  Fiat is planning to enhance the range with a ‘Natural Power’ model which will have a Turbo TwinAir engine converted to run on compressed natural gas. No specific information has been provided as to which engine will be used in the North American specification model of the Fiat 500L.