In America, Fiat currently offers just two models: the stylish-value 500 and the eccentric, spacious, kinda-dismal 500L. FCA stablemate Ferrari offers four, if you count the already-sold-out LaFerrari. Even fusty, grand Rolls-Royce has three model lines. By the end of 2015, Fiat will have four models on sale Stateside — the 500 and 500L, the previously-an-Alfa Mazda Miata sibling, and the new 500X.
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Though it’s to be built on the same bones as the new Jeep Renegade, don’t expect a Trail Rated example of the 500X. Instead, see it as an Italianate alternative to softy-soft-roaders with a modicum of funk—like the Mini Countryman and the upcoming Chevrolet Trax. Due in Europe late in ’14, we’ll see the 500X in U.S. showrooms early next year available with both front- and all-wheel drive. Wheel-spinning duties likely will fall to the same four-holers found in the baby Jeep: a 160-hp 1.4-liter turbo and a 184-hp 2.4-liter.
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