All-electric Fiat Grande Panda goes on sale for £20,975
All-electric Fiat Grande Panda goes on sale for £20,975
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Iconic 80s styling for new family-friendly Panda with a built-in charging cable. Pandas may be notoriously difficult to breed, but Fiat has successfully delivered a second Panda model to its family: the Grande Panda. Making use of parent company Stellantis’s Smart Car platform, also used for the new Vauxhall Frontera and Citroen’s e-C3 and e-C3 Aircross models, Fiat is undercutting those cars with a starting price of £20,975.
![[Panda-inspired detailing adorns the wheel arches, panels and rear doors of the Fiat Grande Panda]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/28/13/52/Fiat-Grande-Panda.png)
Fiat has gone to town on the styling, not only mimicking the boxy look of the 1980s original, but also embossing the words Fiat and Panda around the car as much as possible, including the doors and seats. The Panda also steals a march on rivals by offering an integrated, retractable 4.5 meter-long charging cable that lives in the nose of the car – ideal if you have to regularly use a charging point that needs you to supply your own cable.
![[Some models of the Fiat Grande Panda get a bamboo-based dash material, get it?]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/28/13/07/Fiat-Grande-Panda-interior.png)
Although this Panda is called Grande, it’s still supermini-sized at under four meters in length. Like the original, the upright front end features distinctive front lights – this time arranged with LEDs in an X shape like panda eyes (Fiat says they’re actually designed to mimic a 1980s video game), while the side features squared-off wheel arches with what looks like bold body mouldings that actually spell out the word panda.
The Fiat logo is also embossed on the back and features in the panels on the rear doors, too – there’s no doubting what this car is. Inside a whole host of recycled materials are used for plastics and textiles, while the sense of fun is carried over from the outside. There’s even a novel bamboo-based material on some models to create the dashboard wrapping – you don’t need to be David Attenborough to figure out that reference.
