Someone Cut The Roof Off This Fiat 500 And It’s Spectacularly Cute

Garage Italia has created this one-off 500 ‘Spiaggina’ to coincide with a new limited edition version of the car from Fiat itself
Someone Cut The Roof Off This Fiat 500 And It’s Spectacularly Cute

Crazed Abarth versions aside, the Fiat 500 isn’t a car we usually get excited about. But how good does this version look?

It’s the work of Garage Italia and Pininfarina, and it pays tribute to the beach buggy-like 500 Jolly or ‘Spiaggina’, which came out 60 years ago.

The ‘Spiaggina by Garage Italia’ - as should be rather clear - is missing its roof. What’s more, it’s missing its rear seats too, replaced by a slatted wooden deck with its own built-in shower. No, we’re not joking.

Other neat details include a lowered windscreen, a front bench seat and white/chrome wheels. To make sure it’s not a floppy mess the moment it sees even the hint of a corner, Pininfarina pitched in to aid Garage Italia in strengthening the car underneath, and develop the rollover hoop.

Someone Cut The Roof Off This Fiat 500 And It’s Spectacularly Cute

The best part? While the car you see here is a one-off showpiece, Garage Italia will actually be offering elements of it to paying customers.

We can’t see that being particularly cheap, but Fiat itself has created the slightly less extreme Spiaggina ’58, limited to 1958 units (see what they did there?). It’s finished in exclusive ‘Volare Blue’ paint, and also awash with cool white and chrome details. The ivory folding roof is a nice touch, too.

Fiat's own tribute to the Spiaggina is a little less extreme
Fiat's own tribute to the Spiaggina is a little less extreme

On the inside, you’ll find more Volare Blue, two-tone seats and an old-school Fiat badge on the steering wheel. It’s not all old-fashioned though, as it’s fitted with FCA’s Uconnect infotainment system, climate control and rear parking sensors as standard.

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Comments

Phil Drift

Some company attemped something like this in the past… and it didn’t turn out well.

07/05/2018 - 09:17 |
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07/05/2018 - 09:22 |
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To be precise, no french car from the mid 2000s worked out well

Apart from some Renaults

07/05/2018 - 10:18 |
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Anonymous

Where’s Ken and Barbie though?

07/05/2018 - 09:17 |
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TheBagel

So extraordinarily Italian

07/05/2018 - 09:21 |
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Anonymous

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07/05/2018 - 09:21 |
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UnknownCat13

Pity they’ll all be bought be Love Island viewers

07/05/2018 - 09:22 |
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A Car Guy

It reminds me if the roofless smart car.

07/05/2018 - 09:22 |
2 | 0

You mean the Smart Crossblade

07/05/2018 - 10:34 |
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Scott Lawrence

The garage Italia car is probably the only Fiat 500 I’d ever drive, as long as the engine was swapped out too…

07/05/2018 - 10:02 |
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But not an abarth…?

07/05/2018 - 11:12 |
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Tomislav Celić

Ay Matt, any chance of an article on this. I would have written it myself, but I can’t post into News community

07/05/2018 - 10:09 |
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CannedRex24

How the hell did they manage to make a car look like a picnic basket

07/05/2018 - 10:14 |
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Lmao

07/05/2018 - 10:15 |
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Aaron 15

“Amarth”… never heard of that brand

07/05/2018 - 10:23 |
18 | 4

I think he mispelled Abarth

07/05/2018 - 10:35 |
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