2015 Fiat 500e: Race Organizer Review - Autoweek

You have two choices for the interior colors: black with shrieking orange accents or white with shrieking orange accents. I cracked up laughing when I first laid eyes on this orange-and-white spectacle, but after the first day I came to love it. On the second day, I was wishing that Fiat had added banks of LEDs strobing to the music on the sound system, and maybe a... Like just about all electric cars, Fiat's engineers won't let the driver dump full thrust out of the motor from a dead stop -- some safety-first nonsense about shearing axle shafts with all that instant 0-rpm torque. you can whip it around in an instant U-turn, drag-race all competitors to a rare open parking spot, and squeeze it into the space before your opponents finish the second part of their three-point turn. Sure, you'll be experiencing screaming tires and squirrely torque-steer during this process, and some drunk will back an Econoline loaded with four tons of waterlogged particle-board into your car after you walk away, but you'll get that spot. I didn't have an actual 24 Hours of LeMons race to organize on this trip, but there were important race-organization meetings to be had. Source: autoweek.com