Going by the way the thing looks, I’d say the marketing department has their work cut out for them.
It looks like the child of a Beetle and a Mini.
I like it!
/MINI owner
You do know what Fiat stands for, don’t you? :dubious:
Fix it again Tony.
Well, like the iPod, it’s small enough to mail back to the manufacturer when it needs a new battery.
Stylish:
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I dunno, man. Maybe the Italians, having grown tired of the smooth lines and raw horsepower of Ferrari, think that’s sleek and sexy. Me, I think driving with a clickwheel would take some getting used to. Mind you, if the car ever stalls, you can hold UP + the horn to have the car reboot itself…
I want the “car of iPods”.
I like the looks of the New Beetle. I didn’t care for the MINI at first, and preferred the original. But now I think the MINI is a fine looking car. I like its styling better than the New Beetle, and wouldn’t mind one in the stable.
But the Fiat? No. Unless I’m looking at the wrong one, it looks to me like just about any other subcompact car. The original has style. The new one doesn’t.
Feeble Italian Attempt at Technology.
Maybe by “iPod” they mean they want it to have a touchwheel to steer and a button in the middle to do everything else.
Because it is as ugly as a mediocre sin, like coveting thy neighbor’s ass.
I have a special place in my heart for FIATs. My first car was a FIAT 850 Sedan . Don’t let the “sedan” fool you, it was tiny . I named him Topo Gigio. His life was cut short by a damned tourist who was busy paying attention to the SYT next to him instead of the road and accordioned me between his car and the one in front of me. The insurance totalled poor Topo and my father used him for parts for his 850 Spider which he’d never let me drive. It was a damn good car! sniff I miss him.
By the way, the FIAT Panda looks cute, I wonder if I could get one in Black and White?
What is an SYT?
Oh. wait, I think I figured it out…Sexy Young Thing?
Or Sweet, but your version might be more apropos. She was significantly younger and better looking than him.
Go to any Italian city. Count the Ferraris, count the Fiats, then report back. They’ve always been popular cars, because they’re cheap. Thankfully, nowadays that doesn’t mean they fall apart and/or break down within a week.
I agree with the others, it just looks like a dull small car. If it wasn’t for one line quoted from La Stampa would the OP even have bothered with this?
Compare it to the original. Hey, reviving one of the cars from the original Italian Job worked great for BMW – why not try another? As GorillaMan suggests, I bet you saw many more Cinquecentos in that movie than you did Minis. Fiat is definitely going to the nostalgia well on this one, just as VW did with the New Beetle. But the Beetle did much better in the US than in its native Germany, while as far as I know the Cinquecento was never sold in the US.
Fiat wants to build an overpriced car with a 3-year life expectancy? I think Ford has that market niche covered…
It looks somewhat cheeky, but I’m not sure about the roofline.
I don’t know what they mean about the Cinquecento being out of production for 32 years. Fiat had a model with that name in the '90s.
Anyway, the new one looks like just another “city car”, of which there are numerous models already on the market.