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doug f., 12/23/2018
2016 FIAT 500X Easy 4dr SUV (2.4L 4cyl 9A)
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
we have owned this 500x for almost two years. great mpg 25-28mpg city/combination, 32+ on the hwy. 36mog highest. very comfortable seating. great height adjustable driver and passenger seats. no real issues. oil changes/tire rotation only maintenance. only real problem is that the original nexen tires will be lucky to last 30,000 miles
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This would be a good car, if it had a good engine!
Robert JF, 06/20/2016
2016 FIAT 500X Lounge 4dr SUV (2.4L 4cyl 9A)
5 of 8 people found this review helpful
The 500X is a nice little SUV, with many fine attributes. Unfortunately, it is hobbled by a sluggish engine and transmission. The engine and transmission look impressive on paper, with 180 HP and 9 speeds. But, they fail to deliver. My rental, with only 8000 miles on it, had a bad tendency to hesitate at the worst possible times. Even when the hesitating was not pronounced, there was a noticeable delay between pressing the gas pedal and the car moving. The engine has no torque below 2500 RPM. I experimented with manual shifting and then flooring the accelerator. Below 2500, the engine was weak. Passing situations, where you may be at 45 MPH and want to move in the passing lane with traffic rapidly approaching from the rear, were unnerving. It seems like an eternity before the transmission downshifts, and the engine builds enough torque to accelerate the car. The Sport mode works by holding the RPM's about 1000 higher, but it did not improve the performance much. Generally, the acceleration was either "too little", or "too much", and rarely "just right". I tried moderately accelerating, but the transmission quickly goes into a higher gear, making the accelerating sluggish. Trying to accelerate only slightly faster resulted in abrupt downshifts, and the engine racing towards its red line. This gives other drivers the impression that you are trying to race them, when you are only trying to get reasonable acceleration out of it. An auto magazine found that the smaller engine and manual transmission was actually faster than the larger engine and automatic. This does not surprise me. Other reviews have mentioned the balky transmission, so I don't believe that my car was an isolated case. I am not sure about the hesitation. that is unusual in a modern car. Driving in mountainous areas was a chore, and manual shifting worked best. But there is little engine braking below 4000 RPM, so going down 8 percent grades was a noisy affair. I will leave the other details about the car to other reviewers. First, see if you are going to be happy with the engine and transmission, and then look at the rest of the car's features.
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Mostly good, but some serious issues.
John, 12/03/2016
updated 06/06/2017
2016 FIAT 500X Trekking 4dr SUV (2.4L 4cyl 9A)
5 of 8 people found this review helpful
There are many things I love about this car, but I want to focus on the reasons why I am slightly regretting my purchase. The first is the terrible road noise at freeway speed, it's not bad if you have the radio on. But if you are talking to a passenger it can be a bit annoying, and taking a call on the Bluetooth system, don't even bother while going down the freeway because the person on the other line will just tell you that there is too much background noise to hear well. As for safety, I was really happy at the ratings it received. Unfortunately because of the pillar side airbags being so chunky, it leaves way too much blind area not just while making turns but can leave a pedestrian invisible at the pillar as you approach. To correct this I have to constantly move my head left and right to see around the pillar. I've never experienced so many close calls in any other car. And if you do have to break hard, get ready to veer left or right (that's part of the surprise, you don't get to know which direction it will take you). Even if you hold the steering wheel perfectly straight while moderately or heavily breaking you will veer sharply and there is nothing you can do to prevent it. Then we have the transmittion, it does not matter if it is in auto or semi-auto, it lags something terrible. Sometimes when you slow down and then begin to accelerate, it can take up to three seconds to react and downshift for any power at all. 4th and 5th gear changes are always clunky and late, leaving you to lurch about. If you are in auto and briefly (as in less than a seconds worth) press hard on the gas, it will down shift into second regardless of speed and take nearly half a minute to get back to the proper gear. This leaves you looking like a proper knob who is trying to race other drivers while you are at maximum revs. The final issue I have is that a warning light came on for the fab to be serviced (owning the car for only seven months). The dealership said that it needs an update and they would contact me in another month if it is available by then. In the meantime I get a pinging warning when I open the car door, start the car (which leaves a warning in place of the speed for 30 seconds annoyingly), when I turn off the car and again when I open my door to get out. And I have to deal with this obnoxious feature for at lease a month while they work on an update. I can't fanthom why in the world this is an issue in the first place.
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Avoid this car!
Tracey, 10/31/2017
2016 FIAT 500X Pop 4dr SUV (1.4L 4cyl Turbo 6M)
4 of 7 people found this review helpful
I can't tell you how disappointed I am with this car. I was so excited to get it. It looks cool and has a lot of nice features, but quality-wise, it is very poor. Road noise is excessive, I am on my 3rd sunroof so far in the first year due to it being loose and rocking and rattling in the roof. I am on my 2nd air conditioner unit due to it smelling like mold. I think water somehow gets into the system and molds in there, so when it is turned on, it smells like mold/mildew. It is a fun car to drive, but the seats are pretty hard, so it is terrible for long road trips. My old van was so much more comfortable. I tried to get the lemon law on this car but Chrysler basically denied any problems. I have had this car in the dealer at least 2 1/2 months of the time I've had it. Too bad I bought it rather than leased it. Now I am stuck with this lemon. I would stay far far away from this car and Chrysler in general-they are the worst!
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FOOL ME 1X SHAME ON YOU FOOL ME 2XA SHAME ON ME
Juana, 03/01/2016
2016 FIAT 500X Easy 4dr SUV AWD (2.4L 4cyl 9A)
18 of 42 people found this review helpful
Where should I begin? I purchased a FIAT 500L in 2012. The car was a disaster. I took it to the dealership many times. The last thing that did was to stop in the middle of the highway. When I brought it for service. Guess what had happened? the clutch BURNED. BURNED!!!! YES. Brand new car and the clutch burned. I freaked out in the middle of the highway. I had to get out and the next day I took it immediately to Rick Case FIAT. They had to give me a rental because the car was unsafe to drive. Well.. maybe I should've thought about it more carefully, but I loved the look of the FIAT so much that I decided to get a new FIAT instead. Because the other one ... well you know what happened. The clutch BURNED. So I decided to lease a 500X thinking it was a "much better" version of the old one and thinking this one was not going to have any problems at all. Well....WRONG! I leased this car on September of 2015. I had taken this car about 5-6 times already. The last 3 times for the same exact reason. The car is simply unsafe to drive. I do not feel safe in that car. I am scared of driving it and for something bad to happen to me. I will NEVER purchase a FIAT EVER again. I am so disappointed, upset, and simply can't believe how awful my experience has been with FIAT.
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