Fiat 500 and Microsoft Blue&Me
You’re thinking what on earth do a Fiat 500 and Microsoft have in common?
That’s a good question and one, which I didn’t know the answer to until a little yellow Fiat 500 arrived, with what Microsoft claim is the “real” in-car hands free solution.
The partner of choice for this demonstration was the Fiat 500, with a 1.4-litre engine with a lazy 74kW and peak torque at 131Nm.
It only weighs 930 kilograms, so performance is not too bad with top speed of 182km/h and the 0-100 dash in a respectable 10.7 seconds.
It’s hard not to like Fiat’s 500, especially in this colour, it really is a very cool set of wheels for those wanting Italian style and flair, in a micro-economy package.
However, while it might be more advanced than your standard in car Bluetooth phone system, I wouldn’t call it ground breaking.
Perhaps I was expecting more from this Windows based technology, like being able to surf the web on a nice big LCD screen in the car.
With laptop power anywhere from 4GB of memory and more than 300GB of storage, I would have thought surfing the web via your in-car wide screen LCD would be more than possible in this day and age.