01/07/2008 03:07. Fiat has come up with a 'fun-to-drive' index. What they reckon is,
regardless of how fast a car can sprint from 0 to 62mph, or manage
flat-out on a motorway, 'fun' comes down - largely - to the first
few seconds of acceleration. When you put your foot down, do you
feel a flat fart of complaint, or does the car surge eagerly
forward? The Fiat people reckon that this, not outright velocity,
is what defines that overused cliché: 'fun'. And in this
respect the new Fiat green machine, the Bravo Eco (62.8mpg
combined, 119g/km CO2), has all the chutzpah of much thirstier,
dirtier motors. Almost regardless of speed and revs, the Bravo Eco
proves willing when you wield your whip, even if it runs out of
puff quite quickly after that.
And the Fiat bods are right, because the Eco version of the... //
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