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Retromobility for your retro-hipster cosplay celebration.
Great news for these who like to arrive fashionably late to parties: The 1957 Edition of the Fiat 500 survives for the 2015 model year. Introduced for 2014 to commemorate, oddly sufficient as it was, the 57th anniversary of the model that inspired its design, the commemoration carries on into year 58 due to the fact, well, Italians and clocks, correct?
With fellow Fiat-Chrysler divisions Maserati and Dodge celebrating centennials and Fiat’s own centennial in 1999 long behind it, maybe Fiat didn’t want to really feel left out. What ever the lead to, it was already playing quick and loose when it dreamed up the 1957 as a way to add however another unique-edition 500. When you’re playing the style card, as exemplified by BMW’s Mini brand, you need to take benefit of every chance. Aside from the fashionable array of interior and exterior colors (your decision of Celeste [pastel blue], Verde Chiaro [light green], or Bianco [white]), 1957-style Fiat badges replacing the contemporary ones, and 16-inch painted aluminum wheels created to look as old college as a black-and-white Audrey Hepburn flick on TCM, there’s not significantly else that adjustments from the normal Cinquecento.
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Harkening to a More Pastel Time
The tiny, quasi-original twenty-very first century Fiat character automobile traces its style inspiration to 1957 when Fiat rolled out the original 500—which was then called the Nuova (New) 500 to distinguish it from the 1936–1955 Topolino. In the U.S., a ’57 reference fairly significantly gets you a Chevy—the be-finned conclusion to the tri-5 run of family members vehicles that made the modest-block V-8 renowned. It may well show up in say, turquoise or coral occupied by some baby-boomer retiree who still refers to herself as a “gal” wearing a poodle skirt. That ’57 Chevy driver’s millennial cohort, en route to the vintage clothes shop or the retro furnishings store, may possibly want the reliability and fuel economy of a spanking-new, child-blue Fiat.
What she’ll uncover at the Fiat store, for a tiny more jingle than the base price tag on the far more strong 500 Turbo, is basically the 500 in Lounge trim, except that on the 1957 Edition the leather package is regular. The dashboard is rendered in ivory and gray and contrasts nicely with the brown leather and its prominent ivory-colored stitching. The particulars are very modern day, with lots of digital electronic displays and such, but rendered in retro style (for instance, the round “dials” flanking the radio-tuner face are truly buttons arrayed to appear like dials). And that white roof? The Mini is the apparent touchstone. Those who’ve noticed the 1969 film The Italian Job will keep in mind that though Mini was the star, the Fiat 500s were ubiquitous throughout. As in the modern day auto marketplace, Mini is the star that shows the way, but Fiat can cash in on retro, also.
Nonetheless, regardless of the sturdy style cues, the 1957 Edition drives like any other Fiat 500. It is roughly a 10-seconds-to-60-mph auto, like our extended-term 2012 Fiat Sport instance. This distinct car had the 6-speed automatic transmission, so it was less engaging to drive than the 5-speed manual version of the 1959 Edition that begins at $ 21,250, $ 1900 far more than a 500 Lounge. With its normal sport-tuned suspension, the 1957 Edition is surely nimbler and much more entertaining to pilot than Fiat’s other automobile, the newer 500L crossover, a bloated, Serbian-constructed bus wearing the number and the face but with none of the charm. Nevertheless, we actually like saying “Cinquecento.”
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