06/10/2008 10:06. Save the Panda. Not from extinction, clearly: there still seem to be plenty of them around in their natural habitat, and it evidently remains possible to breed them in captivity without too many complications. Save the Panda, rather, from a uniquely disorientating, frustration-inducing (and possibly even worse) fate - the arrival of a cute and attention-grabbing sibling.

All was well in the Panda's world as recently as last year. It knew a reliable place in the Fiat family as the smallest and most adored member - a plucky little fun-wagon, capable of mimicking the grown-up manners of much bigger cars in a way that adults seemed to find rather loveable. If it had had cheeks, people would have spent a lot of time tweaking them.

The next thing it knows, the Fiat 500 turns up. The 500... // Times Online