Fiat Panda II

The Fiat Panda II is the second generation of the Fiat Panda, a small city car built from 5 May 2003 to 20 December 2012 at the Fiat plant in Tychy, Poland. It replaced the first generation after twenty-three years and was foreshadowed by the Fiat Simba concept at the 2002 Bologna motor show. It was first shown at Geneva in 2003 as the Gingo, but Fiat dropped that name in July 2003 because it sounded too close to Renault's Twingo and went back to Panda. At 3.54 metres long it seated five and was sold only as a five-door. It launched with petrol engines of 54 and 60 horsepower, joined in the spring of 2004 by a 1.3 Multijet diesel, and it won the European Car of the Year title for 2004. A sporting Panda 100 HP followed in 2006 and Fiat entered two Panda 4x4 in the 2007 Dakar rally. Production passed one million cars in September 2007 and ended in December 2012.