04/07/2008 05:25. I HAD been waiting patiently for a few months to test drive the new Fiat 500, but when I arrived home with a bright yellow coloured model I got a few strange looks.

Its not that my family didnt like it, but some were a bit reluctant to take a drive in such a brightly coloured car with a big figure 5 written on the bonnet as they felt that it attracted too much attention. I have a very modest family.

You get a big 5 for 500 in the bonnet (only on press cars) and a small 4 on the back window which means four years warranty and four years AA membership.

When leaving Fiats headquarters near the Red Cow roundabout, PR woman Tara OLeary said that with this colour she reckoned I would always be allowed out into the flow of traffic by other drivers. It proved to be true as the drivers were... // Northside People