Fiat 500: surprising sales in Texas

The wonder is apparent from its words, which describe a favorable situation because unexpected. "In Texas, the sales of the 500 are running." The first budget carries numbers ahead of expectations. Laura Soave, head of the Fiat brand in the United States, therefore, can appreciate the fruits of its strategy, so apt to have led motorists to buy a Texas utility charges unrelated to their car: the mammoth SUVs and pick-up is accompanied by a small car even four feet.

• Report: Early sales show Fiat 500 going strong in Texas, manual transmission take rate high (30/06/2011)
• Love your FIAT? (23/06/2011)
• Mark Phelan, of the Detroit Free Press, welcomes the return of Italian Automaker FIAT, to America! (27/06/2011)
• The 500 by Gucci - Is this the most stylish car ever? (27/06/2011)
• Kelley Blue Book: Fiat 500 Named the 2011 Coolest New Car Under $18,000 (24/06/2011)

Texas (historycom)  Texas (geolocation)  Texas (wikipedia)  

MPV Fiat 500 rendering, the proposed way of a reader

Our reader David Obendorfer, industrial designer, sent us these interesting graphic reconstructions of a possible 500 Fiat MPV. "According to information available, the replacement for the Fiat Idea (" L0 "code) is stylistically quite different, but it is conceivable that Fiat has planned to launch a" Family-sixteenth "in the U.S.

market. The mathematics of the model that you see in the pictures was built by calculating floor space and mechanical point of EVO / MiTo. As owner of a 500 I found interesting experiment of any other models that could arise if the 500 had become a sort of family. The stylistic and logical volumes of the 500 version after all hold a minivan.

Photo of the week: for sale, Fiat 600 Jolly Gianni Agnelli

During the auction, "The Grandes Marques a Monaco", scheduled for tonight in the Principality, will beat the Fiat 600 Jolly, 1959 belonged to Gianni Agnelli and built by Carrozzeria Ghia. The utilitarian Turin is characterized by the absence of doors and roof, wicker seats and the cost in the late 50's was double that of a 600.

Those responsible for the Bonhams auction house expects to sell 600 Jolly at a price of between 35,000 and $ 50,000.

• Gianni Agnelli's own Fiat 600 Jolly beach car up for auction (20/05/2011)
• T Magazine: Styled to a T | Lapo Elkann (12/05/2011)
• Fiat 500 by Gucci (24/02/2011)
• Supre Cute Adorable Car (19/05/2011)
• Agnelli in talks with News Corp over Formula 1 bid (03/05/2011)

Gianni Agnelli (wikipedia)  Fiat 600 (wikipedia)  

Fiat 500: a photo of a car transporter in California

The Fiat 500 is landed overseas: our reader Mark "Biagiox" from California sent us three photos of a car transporter loaded with "Cinquini, plucked on 57 Northbound near Fullerton, a city in Orange County. The photos were taken last March 18 and we arrived just a few minutes later another important story on behalf of small Turin: Fiat, as mentioned earlier, will lead the New York Hall of the 500C variant discovery of the model already in sale in European markets.