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Fiat 500 Wins Another Green Award!

Friday, 16 July 2010
The award-winning Fiat 500 has received further confirmation of its green credentials after scooping top honours in the Supermini category of the "What Car?" Green Awards for the second year in a row. Read more...

Chic magnet

Friday, 11 June 2010
Cars Guide - By Peter Barnwell
What is the lowest price entry point into roofless motoring? The Fiat 500C, of course, and it is oh so cool. PETER BARNWELL reports Read more...

Fiat 500 x 500,000 = World Wide Success!

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Fiat has produced its half millionth Fiat 500, just 21 months after its Bambino was born, making the award winning Fiat 500 one of the Italian car maker’s most successful cars of all time. Read more...

Fiat Continues To Lead The Way In Cutting Emissions

Monday, 1 March 2010
Fiat is, once again, the standard setter for cutting carbon dioxide emissions, with both the Fiat brand and the Fiat Group having the lowest volume weighted CO2 emissions and Fiat Group brands Ferrari and Alfa Romeo recording the best overall reduction and the best volume weighted brand reduction for vehicles sold in Europe during 2009, according to figures compiled by the independent research company JATO Dynamics. Read more...

Fiat Produces The Fleet Manager's Dream - Cars That Teach Their Drivers To Save Fuel

Monday, 22 February 2010
Fiat's award-winning eco:Drive system is now available in a Fleet version that will help fleet managers not only run their car fleets more efficiently and effectively but also reduce their impact on the environment, with tests showing up to a 15 per cent saving on fuel. Read more...

Fiat Backs Skiing For The Disabled

Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Fiat is backing the 2010 Disabled Alpine Skiing World Cup this month (18 - 23 January 2010) as the main sponsor of the world's leading event for disabled winter athletes and to promote its Autonomy programme that provides Fiat and Alfa Romeo vehicles with factory-built conversions for European markets. Read more...

Chic Italian Model Goes Topless In Australia - First Pictures!

Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Europe's hottest model, seen topless at all the top beach resorts in Europe last northern summer, has been spotted at Australian beaches for the first time, with deliveries of the new Fiat 500C, the soft top version of Fiat's award-winning bambino, now on the road - and alongside the beach - in Australia. Read more...

The Fiat Group Comes To The Aid Of Haiti Earthquake Victims

Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Following the major earthquake which has devastated Haiti, the Fiat Group has acted immediately to help the local population, providing equipment, technical and financial support totaling US$1 million. Read more...

Fiat Takes The Top Off The 500!

Saturday, 17 October 2009
Fiat will take the wraps off the convertible version of the Fiat 500 at the Geneva International Motor Show (4 March 2009) with the launch of the 500C, a new version of Fiat's chic bambino that plays homage to the convertible version of the original Fiat 500 which was launched in 1957 and combines it with latest in technology, which means an electric roof and a spacious interior that still has seats for four adults. Read more...

The Fiat 500 That Wants To Be A Ferrari!

Tuesday, 8 September 2009
The Frankfurt International Motor Show will see the launch of the hottest version yet of Fiat's chic bambino, the Fiat 500 Read more...

Fiat 500 Opens Up For Summer!

Sunday, 6 September 2009
Fiat is taking orders now for what will be the hottest fashion item for the coming summer - the new Fiat 500C, the open top version of Fiat's Bambino, the car that has already captured hearts and, thanks to its green credentials, minds, around the world. Read more...

14,000 Fiat 500s Teach The British To Drive

Tuesday, 28 July 2009
The British School of Motoring (BSM) has announced that it is buying 14,000 Fiat 500s to teach the British how to drive. Read more...

Elle Has A New Baby In Her Life

Thursday, 16 July 2009
Australian supermodel, Elle Macpherson, has a new baby in her life – the freshly hatched Fiat 500C, the open top version of Fiat’s new bambino. Read more...

Fiat's Baby Cuddles A Panda In Cannes

Sunday, 5 July 2009
Not content with winning awards for itself, the Fiat 500 has now started winning awards for its advertising with Fiat's baby collecting two Gold Lions in the Cannes International Advertising Festival for an innovative advertisement that replaces crash test dummies with endangered species, including a Panda. Read more...

Fiat 500 To Open Up In Australia In 2010

Friday, 19 June 2009
Fiat has announced more details of the open top version of its award-winning baby, the Fiat 500C, which is set to arrive in Australia in mid-2010, and brings with it a car that plays homage to the original 1957 open top 500, yet with a unique blend of innovative technical solutions that provide safety, economy and low emissions alongside the pleasure of driving an open top Fiat 500. Read more...

Stop The Clocks, It's Sgt. Fiat's Happy 500 Hearts Club Band!

Friday, 12 June 2009
Sir Peter Blake, one of the world’s most influential pop artists, is the latest artist to choose the Fiat 500 as a ‘canvas’ for their work, joining Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin in not just producing unique works of automotive art, but also in raising significant amount of money for charity. Read more...

L'Enfant Terrible Decorates Fiat's Baby

Wednesday, 10 June 2009
The British art world’s l’enfant terrible, Damien Hirst, has decorated Fiat’s baby, the award-winning Fiat 500, and, in doing so, raised nearly a million dollars for charity at a star studded London party. Read more...

Fiat 500 Is Not Just Driveaway, It's Also Flyaway!

Monday, 13 April 2009
The new Fiat 500 is not just at driveaway prices in April, offering savings of more than $2,950. New owners of Fiat's chic little award-winner will also get a flyaway deal with 100,000 Velocity Points also included, enough for seven return trips from Sydney to Melbourne! Read more...

Fiat 500: 2009 Design Car Of The Year

Sunday, 12 April 2009
The Fiat 500 has been elected 2009 Design Car of the Year by 59 journalists from around the world and beating 51 short listed cars from top car makers around the world. Read more...

Fiat 500: Great To Look At, Safe To Look Out Of!

Sunday, 12 April 2009
There's no doubt that the Fiat 500, with its chic, cheeky good looks, is one of the best looking cars on the road, but the NRMA has revealed it's also the safest car in its class. Read more...

She May Be An Absolute Doll - But The Fiat 500 Barbie Is The Real Thing!

Friday, 13 March 2009
When Fiat announced that there would be a special Fiat 500 for Barbie, the most famous fashion doll in the world, to celebrate her 50th birthday there were suggestions that the special Fiat 500 would be a mere model like its owner and its engine would be no more active than Ken's famously anatomically incorrect parts - but here is living proof that the nail varnish pink Fiat 500 exists in full size - and with a full size Italian interpretation of Barbie! Read more...

Fiat 500 Beats Mercedes, Honda And Holden To Be The AA New Zealand Small Car Of The Year

Saturday, 7 March 2009
The Fiat 500 has taken the Eyepro Small Car Award 2009 in the New Zealand AA Motoring Excellence Awards 2009, beating the Mercedes A Class, the Honda Jazz and the Holden Barina. Read more...

Barbie® Celebrates Her 50th Birthday With A New Fiat 500!

Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Barbie®, the most famous fashion doll ever, will celebrate her 50th birthday in Milan on 9 March 2009 and Fiat, in partnership between Fiat Centro Stile and Mattel, will present her with a special Fiat 500 to mark the occasion. Read more...

Urban Legend And Open Road Devil: Rinspeed's Fiat 500 E2 Has A Split Character!

Monday, 2 March 2009
Swiss automotive concept technology company, Rinspeed, has come up with the solution to the age old problem of choosing between an economy car for running around the city or buying a performance car that's great fun on the open road with their Fiat 500 E2 which is both an economy car and a performance car - at the flick of a switch! Read more...

Fiat's Hot Bambino Is Race Ready!

Saturday, 21 February 2009
Boasting almost twice the power of the standard Fiat 500 sold in Australia, the Fiat 500 Abarth Assetto Corse is race track-ready with the racing 500 rolling off Abarth's production line ready for the first race of the season on 29 March at the historic Monza race track in Italy. Read more...

Fiat 500: Big In The City

Monday, 26 January 2009
With its chic good looks, cheeky character and peppy, yet economical performance, the new Fiat 500 has everything it needs to be big in the city. Read more...

Sydney Gets A Bambino Police Car!

Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Sydney's Leichhardt Police can claim to have what is probably Australia's most visible Police car in the shape of Fiat's Bambino, the new Fiat 500. Read more...
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