http://www.autoblog.com/2007/03/20/f...0-a-day-early/

 

Aww, how cute! Seen what Nissan is doing with the "Pino" (re-bodied Suzuki Alto kei-car)?

 

What planet is that from!!

 

You'll be surprised, but old Fiat 500 was a big success all over Europe.

 

the biggest advantage? it's build in Poland

 

Looks like a great stylish little city car.

 

I saw lots of the previous gen Mouse when I was in Poland last summer. The new one looks better, IMO. My friend in Gdansk, who has a Toyota,told me he'd like to buy one. They make a lot of sense as a city car in places where gas is so costly.

Mouse comes from topolino-little mouse- which is what the old Fiat 500's were called.

 

Would be interesting to hot-rod that old-school Fiat 500 - Fiat GT500, anyone?

 

I kinda like it...rather it were rwd....or midengined

 

I have an issue with the slope on the rear end, but it looks kinda interesting otherwise

 

Actually, it's been done many times. A guy named Al Cosentino in the US sold performance parts for Fiats through his FAZA company. Very eccentric guy with a weird but fun catalog and I always had to wait forever for him to ship me parts for my Fiat 128SL.

He raced the hell out of hopped up Fiats using a lot of Abarth parts. Abarth was/is a performance parts company and Fiat Abarths were the kings of their class on the track.

You'd be surprised at how fast a light car with a small but hot engine can be.

 

I would sport that.