Chrysler’s sale of assets to Fiat has been officially OK’d by bankruptcy court. For Fiends like us, that means just one thing – we’re getting the 500. Aside from a slick-looking gas sipper, the little Italian job is a blast to drive. With a little tweaking courtesy of in-house tuner Abarth, it’s also damn quick. [...]
Let’s say you want to take your car to not only see all the Floridian supercars, but upstage ‘em — how you do that? Turns out a bright red Fiat 500 with moon disks is the best way. Simply bitchin’.
You know I must say, this Chrysler-Fiat deal is looking better all the time. Long story real short, through platform swappage and localized manufacturing, Chrysler’s relationship with Fiat should yield seven — count ‘em – seven new cars for us Yanks here in America. Most importantly (to me) is Fiat’s scrappy little 500. If you dig [...]
Alternately titled: How I learned to stop worrying and love Chrysler-Fiat. But yeah, according to Motor Trend the little Fiat that could (excite the hell out of people) will be seen on our shores come 2010. And instead of selling ‘em via Maserati dealers like we once thought, the Fiat 500s will go to Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep dealers. [...]
Didn’t see this one coming. Chrysler and Fiat have teamed up to take advantage of each others’ strengths. It’s no secret that fuel efficiency isn’t Chrysler’s forte, with its smallest models dishing up the kind of mpgs that were so-so five years ago. Now Chrysler and Fiat have announced a partnership that would allow the [...]
Fiat’s planning to bring a topless Fiat 500 to the Geneva Auto Show. The rag-top 500 was all that was missing from Fiat’s arsenal to properly assault the MINI. The company managed to work in the top mechanism without encroaching too much on the already slim interior room, allowing for a four-seat configuration. Still, we’d [...]
This is hotness out of control. Fiat’s taken the already Fiendish 500, stripped the retro-bubble exterior and plopped a targa coupe on top. The car maintains all of the mechanicals that make the Abarth 500 the snappy ride it is, which means a front engine, front-wheel drive set up. One of the Coupe’s main goals [...]
I tend to really like the motley collection of cars in many gas station parking lots. One near me always has several old Benzes and at least one 1980s Bentley. This weekend while pounding the pavement, I saw a 1968-1965 vintage Fiat 500. How tiny it looked next to a mid 1990s Honda Accord. And [...]
“Jolly” is the perfect name for this Fiat 500 derivative, because it puts a smile on my face every time I see it. Before there were good enough batteries to power golf carts around the estates and yachts of oligarchs, Fiat sent several 500s over to Ghia to chop the top and turn them into [...]
Maybe you know the new Fiat Multipla? It’s the ugliest car in Europe (pictured below). The name has history for Fiat. Back in the 1950s they used the Fiat 600 platform to create one of the first MPVs, with optional 2+2+2 seating and completely flat-folding seats. These proto-soccermommobiles had Fiat’s tiny 21 or 29 horsepower [...]
