Kelly Blue Book (kbb), the go-to place for automotive pricing, recently released its annual “Coolest Cars Under $18,00” list and ranked the 2012 Fiat 500 as number one. Finally available to American buyers, the posh supermini packs a lot into its compact and city friendly size and thus beat out its competition that included the Nissan Cube, Ford Focus and Volkswagen Jetta.
It would appear that no other new, small car can come close to the Fiat 500’s combination of posh looks, Italian charm and low price. Remarkably, the starting MSRP for the 2012 model is $15,500 with quite a bit of standard features. KBB summed the Fiat 500 rather ‘cutely’: “Regardless of what the Hello Kitty mafia would like to believe, cute isn’t cool. Not usually, anyway. But that’s because cute is rarely backed up by substance, as it is in the 2012 Fiat 500.”
