Old Top Gear Fiat Seicento

Old Top Gear from 1998
Quentin Willson roadtests the Fiat Seicento, the replacement for the Cinquecento in Turin, Italy
The model he is driving is the 1.1 Sporting

This clip was extracted from the episode that was first broadcast on the 30th April 1998

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Old
• Top
• Gear
• Quentin
• Willson
• Fiat
• Seicento
• Cinquecento
• SX
• Sporting
• Michael
• Schumacher
• Abarth
• Citymatic
• Turin
• Italy
• Motorshow
• BBC
• 1998
• 1998_04_30

[ysivyboi1]

He says the SayChento

[alexx400]

Lol they're not that unsafe, we crashed ours into a clio at 6 mph and survived!

[Annihilator1111]

the engine on the 1998-2010 Fiat Seicento/ Fiat 600 (2005-2010)

Engine

0.9L straight-4 OHV 40 PS (29 kW; 39 hp)

1.1L straight-4 Fire 54 PS (40 kW; 53 hp)

Electric engine 41 PS (30 kW; 40 hp)

[Lanciarules]

it's curious that he examined the central air holes (I don't know how to define them but I think you can understand) and said that are better than the cinquecento ones when this particulars are the same on both the models.

[ikilleduku]

Good for 95 mph?! Lmfao :')

[SlodkiPolska]

I have one of them, '2000, 1,1 54hp, electric windows and radio, black and so cute ;)

[philpott1234567890]

they do 100mph

[JRRacing85]

@juice0105 I hit a deer at 70mph in mine, I'm still here. What is more the car was rebuilt - needed front wing, headlight, bumper and bonnet and was good as new.

[fatwalletboy2]

fiat must have changed the set up on the 1.1 sporting engines between the cinque and sei. i had both and they drove like totally different animals.

the cinquecento sporting felt like a little rocket come 4000rpm but the seicento seemed to have a flat almost horizontal torque curve and felt far worse for it. you felt you had to cane it to get anywhere. there was no sparkle unlike its predecessor. i had far less fun in the seicento and new dash top mounted rev counter looked silly too

[discocreator76]

@danielsydney Not when they breakdown (which they do, very quickly and regularly)

[danielsydney]

Wish they sold them in Australia. The Citymatic would have been fun.

[BreffniArmstrong]

@HarderStylezTom I managed 105 in mine. The only reason I ended up going that fast was because I was trying to overtake a bloke with a headset in a 3-Series who desperately didn't want to be overtaken by a little yellow box.