Experience After three years writing for Cycle Canada magazine and another three working for the then oldest magazine in Canada, Canadian Automotive Trade, Booth, along with current Driving writer, Brian Harper, and then Toronto Star contributor, Alex Law, created an automotive editorial services group that supplied road tests, news and service bulletins to what was then called Southam newspapers. Education Graduating from Queen Elizabeth High School in 1973, Booth moved to from his Northern Quebec home town of Sept-Iles - also home to Montreal Canadiens great, Guy Carbonneau, by the way - to Ottawa to study Mechanical Engineering at Carleton University where he wrote a thesis on the then burgeoning technology of anti-lock brakes for motorcycles and spent time researching the also then burgeoning use of water tunnels for aerodynamic testing. Besides his long tenure with Driving, he was the editor in chief of Autovision magazine for 25 years and his stories has been published in motorcycle magazines around the world including the United States, England, Germany and Australia. Having written about everything from the exact benefits of Diamond Like Coating (DLC) on motorcycle camshafts to why Range Rovers are the best vehicles for those suffering from opiod-induced constipation, Booth leaves no stone unturned in his quest for automotive veritas. Boosted to 155 hp, it accelerates to 100 km/h in a much more creditable 7.0 seconds, and, massaged with Abarth’s famed handling nous, such a combination might be worth paying a premium price for.ĭavid Booth is Driving’s senior writer as well as the producer of Driving.ca’s Driving into the Future panels and Motor Mouth podcasts. If it believes it can trade on the “premium” aspect of its Italian lineage, however, I don’t see it having any more success with Nuovo as it have had with previous Fiats.Ī final note about pricing: If Stellantis wants to position a Nuovo as “premium,” best it should import Abarth’s version of the 500e. If Stellantis can get the little 500 into Canada at a decent price, I think Fiat will find an eager niche for a cute, (relatively) inexpensive EV. The bottom line for the 500e, however, will be determined by the price issue we discussed at the beginning of this test. Two-up, the little Fiat is more than roomy and comfy enough for the aforementioned cross-country trip. The seats are firm, supportive, and generally generous in their dimensions, and provide excellent legroom as well. Ditto for your commendation of the comfort of the front seats, though I’ll eschew your Air Canada Economy seats-as-torture as the reason. And Uconnect 5’s balance between power and ease-of-use is truly commendable. DB: I gotta agree with you on that last point, Fiat’s navi system automatically alerting you to all the little red boxes littering village roads is truly helpful.
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