It’s not just the remarkable new Fiat 500 that is winning awards for the Fiat Group across the world. As the stylish new city car was scooping the prestigious Car of the Year 2008 title, two other Fiat models were also displaying winning ways.
In Brazil, the Fiat Grande Punto has been elected Carro do Ano [...]
Monaco Elite Design present their expertly-crafted city chic Fiat 500 M, with a sports package that transforms the classic model inside and out to that full of colour and perfected forms. This is a ‘high fashion’ city car ‘masterpiece’ from Monaco Elite, who take style and technical function to be of the upmost precedence.
After varied [...]
If there’s one car maker that knows how to resurrect a motoring legend, it’s BMW.
And the firm that brought us the MINI has delved into the design archive once again – to produce a 21st-century Isetta microcar! With its tiny dimensions and simple cabin, the Fifties original was hard to beat in town, even if [...]
One of the tuners at this year’s Essen Motor Show is Italy’s TRC-Marangoni, which has modified Fiat’s stylish 500 minicar and changed its name to the ‘5-0-0 Super’. The car has been given a striking red paint finish and a contrasting black hood to mimic Fiat’s 124 classic rally cars, and also gets a full [...]
After already having won awards for ‘Car of the Year 2008’, ‘EuroCarBody 2007’ and ‘World’s Most Beautiful Car’, the Fiat 500 has done it again by receiving the ‘AutoEuropa Award’ for 2008. The award, judged by the Italian Union of Automotive Journalists (Uiga), is given to a car both built and sold in Europe which [...]
The Fiat 500 carries more history and heritage than most minicars, excepting possibly the Mini.
Alternately named the 500, the Cinquecento (literally, Italin for “500″) and Nuova 500, Fiat’s iconic minicar won the hearts of millions of drivers between 1957 and 1975. Since its rebirth in 2007, the 500 has proven true love never dies. [...]
Execs at Fiat have been so impressed with the cute and cheeky design of the 500 that they have promoted its designer, Roberto Giolito, to the head of design at Fiat Automobiles. During his time at the Fiat advanced design studio, Giolito created the Trepiuno concept that was unveiled back in 2004 and later turned [...]
