http://nf500.com/2007/08/07/new-fiat-500-not-some-retro-pastiche/ The Independent Site for the New Fiat 500 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:40:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://nf500.com/2007/08/07/new-fiat-500-not-some-retro-pastiche/#comment-34 WillI? Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:04:33 +0000 http://nf500.com/2007/08/07/new-fiat-500-not-some-retro-pastiche/#comment-34 The 500 is very cute and should sell well. However, lets not kid ouselves into thinking it isn't a bit retro. The form, the design details, the layout of the dash, even the seat shape and colours - all echo, very cleverly, the original. Yes, it has contemporary safety systems, and so it should - but the bits people see all scream 1950s, which is what Fiat intended. The 500 is very cute and should sell well.
However, lets not kid ouselves into thinking it isn’t a bit retro. The form, the design details, the layout of the dash, even the seat shape and colours - all echo, very cleverly, the original.
Yes, it has contemporary safety systems, and so it should - but the bits people see all scream 1950s, which is what Fiat intended.

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