Fiat has recently unveiled teaser sketches of the convertible version of its immensely popular Fiat 500, who managed to sell a few cars in India. The first official images will be revealed this Monday, 16th Feb. 2009, just 2 weeks ahead of the car’s world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show.
The Fiat 500 has been tuned by the World’s best tuners and this time around, it is German tuning house Merkur’s turn. They have installed new front and rear spoilers, a new set of 16? or 17? wheels and puffed wheel arches.
Readers of the BusinessCar magazine in the U.K have voted the 500 as the “City Car of the year”, snatches the crown away from contenders Citroen C1, Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo. The Fiat 500 is available in both petrol and diesel variants in the U.K and starts at £8,100. This isn’t the first time the 500 is winning awards. It’s done it a million times before, and the best of the lot was the European Car of the Year 2008.
Did you know that Fiat 500 is also known as ‘The mighty mouse’? Well, we have now found evidence for the reason behind the name.
The Fiat 500 has recently taken up the brave job of crime fighting in New South Wales -Australia. In an attempt of building rapport between people and police officers, the 500 is doing rounds with Sydney’s Leichhardt Police Station.
The Italian carmaker Fiat is planning to launch a four-wheel-drive mini SUV of the acclaimed 500 minicar, according to latest German media reports.
The Fiat SUV, named the Fiat 500 Giardinetta will fight its rival rival Mini Clubman, and will look similar to it, with a distinct wagon-like appearance
The Fiat 500 Giardinetta, sources say, will almost certainly use the same 4WD system found on the Fiat Panda hatch. The Fiat 500 itself is based on the same platform as the Fiat Panda.
32,000 units of the small-sized Fiat 500 Giardinetta will be produced from 2010 onwards. If this car has the same pull as the Fiat 500 (which eventually will happen, we guess) production will be increased multi-fold. A long wheelbase Fiat 500 has already been produced by Italian coach-builder Castagna, which was displayed recently at the Geneva Motor Show.
You can be forgiven if you mistake the Fiat 500 to be a living thing. DIESEL, a famous brand known for its line of clothing hasn’t stitched pants for the 500, but has given it a range of colors and bits which enhances its looks and 10,000 such examples will be available in the market over the next couple of years, and we bet each one has been booked by [ Read More ]
For all those who feel the Fiat 500 is too flimsy, girlish and not having that umph factor then here comes the Fiat Abarth 500 which will be launched in the year 2009. Abarth is an Italian racing car maker founded in the late 1940′s. The Abarth racing cars used to compete with Porsche’s and the Ferrari’s in 1960′s. In the year 1971 Abarth was sold to Fiat and after [ Read More ]
