Test: Fiat Panda 4×4 Climbing 1.3 Multijet, the smallest TT World
Oozes all the practicality of having a city car and also any Panda, this adventurous 4×4 Climbing adds a dynamic qualities to the worst adversities, if you do not see, you do not believe.
Turn into all terrain a small utility? To Connect these two extremes? Take a trip through the Italian Alps and see what they think the people in rural areas that extreme geography. I remember on my last tour of the area, counting panda 4×4 as if to give away. Before it could be like an absurd symbiosis, until you see how climatological no excuse to do what you have to do every day without need for an expensive and technological car. That is the key to this panda 4×4, be a perfect utilitarian 365 days a year, in your area when you are forced to live with snow, mud and water regularly. Somehow, 4×4 pure substitutes all-terrain and four-wheel drive saloons emerge to deal with these conditions, but do so from the basis of a utility, makes us economically and in practice have a resounding 4×4.
He Panda 4×4 Climbing It has a system permanent all-wheel, Detour symmetrical pair between the front and rear axles. Also it has a electronic traction control (THE D), that simulates differential locks, braking the wheels lose grip up to 50 km / h and prioritizing therefore the rotation of the wheels with good grip. If to this you add a mixed tires, with properties for off-mud and snow, and finally you consider the relative lightweight car, it will be open mouth seeing how easily advancing this Panda 4×4 Climbing any surface.
Good for the field
Dispose of somewhat higher than the normal Panda suspensions and also to improve height ground clearance (160 mm), their very short overhangs They give you a angles of attack, and ventral exit more than one SUV I would like. Do not think that something so "simple and unspecialized" You can wade (has uploaded the suction motor) and trialear with the ease with which it does this panda 4×4, to the point that you should marcarte tilt limits, because before you perceive that you can dump (it is a relatively narrow car), not forward.
In a track "off-road" in which I have tried many TT, except for certain areas of reduction, I remember doing the previous Panda 4×4 almost all "barbarities" which has a circuit of these. But it is no longer a matter of extreme uses. Also if your area is rainfed, but abruptly by geography, broken asphalt and dirt roads, this Panda also it reminds you of its enormous versatility. Utilitarian nature is present at all times. It is a car rolling smooth and soft touch steering, pedals and change. In short, a friendly car, not rude.
In city it unfolds as the best small cars. Tour a foot having those extra centimeters tall hips, positioned you to better master the environment and also to better access and leave the cabin. You park very well and do not care much these speed bumps, curbs, culverts, potholes or other urban obstacles. Of course, if your daily adversities are basically these, you would suffice Trekking version 4×2.
small engine
its engine 1.3 Multijet 75 hp It is also urban, pure consistent with what you expect from a Panda small-and Soft-. He moves well from the start of the march. The low speed of this engine is not exactly something to brag about, but the change has a 1st speed somewhat shorter than usual (And thus the rest), in addition to help start up, allows you to deal more insouciance complicated steps or slopes accused.
He 4×4 Climbing It moves according to 75 CV advertising, amply sufficient to meet the urban way. You think you just might be better sound proof. It has a device Stop-Start to generally get low consumption. Exit to road can also be in your plans. Accelerates just fine, not to feel fast, but not to disturb the normal traffic. Once you reach your cruising speed, the pace remains well established. also their 5th gear adjusts its development down somewhat to compensate for friction transmission and consequently feel their 75 CV reagents throttle, again somewhat elevated as its noisiness.
Its overall comfort is good to be the utility that is. Does not have the precision of a polivante, as the same Fiat Punto, but not by SUV ostentation perceive in their movements. Only their mixed tires must remember, that plus you get for rolling on snow, it takes it away if you demand a lot of dynamism in dry asphalt, but I think at the cost of distorting the unique role of TT world’s smallest or want, the most versatile utility of the universe.