The 500 Cinquecento is a sharply designed retromobile that evokes the super-cute original Fiat 500.
Separately, Chrysler plans to begin selling the Fiat 500 early next year through a new Fiat dealership network.
And so there's now a competition among Chrysler dealers to see who will get to sell the Fiat 500.
Visitors can snuggle up in cute pre-parked Fiat 500 cars to watch the film, or settle into classic cinema seats or deckchairs.
The Fiat 126 was first introduced in 1972 at the Turin Motor Show as a replacement to the Fiat 500.
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Carmakers have overhauled old designs for the modern era: Volkswagen's New Beetle and the new Fiat 500 are obvious examples.
Last year, Riversimple also announced that its car would be redesigned by Chris Reitz, who was responsible for the Fiat 500.
In Italy, car maker Fiat opened itself up for suggestions from the public during the design of its relaunched Fiat 500.
Imagine that I take a picture of a new Fiat 500 through Instagram and posted it to my Facebook timeline along with my text.
The Fiat 500 by Gucci editions will arrive at Fiat dealerships in December, along with assorted Gucci-branded travel accessories to ensure a truly chic driving experience.
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Her first assignment is to launch the pint-size Fiat 500 minicar to a nation of SUV drivers through a dealer network that does not yet exist.
One or two Chrysler factories will be converted to build the hot new Fiat 500 (pictured) and two new Alfas, to be sold by Chrysler dealers.
One of the cars they're going to be bringing out is the Fiat 500, which is - if you know the BMW MINI, it's that kind of car.
The Fiat 500 EV's likely price was indirectly revealed, too, by the company chief's assertion that it'll retail for about three times the cost of its gas-powered version.
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Cars like the Buick Encore, Fiat 500 and Lincoln MKZ, meanwhile, improve mileage through direct fuel injection, which injects gas directly into the combustion chamber in extremely precise amounts.
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Such a deal would help Chrysler bring badly needed small cars into its showrooms while helping Fiat move into the American market with the Alfa Romeo brand and an update of its Fiat 500.
Some of the new models for 2011 are really tiny, like the bulb-shaped Fiat 500, which will be sold by Chrysler dealers early next year, and the Scion IQ, a teeny two-door designed for urban dwellers.
All dressed up in Playskool aero pieces and available in Life Savers colors, the 500e feels like the big-kid toy the Fiat 500 always wanted to be, with an otherworldly electric hum to go with its whimsical aesthetics.
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New vehicles for 2012 include chic budget-minded models like the Chevrolet Sonic and Fiat 500, distinctively designed cars like the Hyundai Veloster and Volkswagen Beetle and upscale entries including the Buick Verano and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque.
To understand the importance of the mix, says Max Warburton of Bernstein Research, compare the cost of producing a small car such as the popular Fiat 500 with that of making a hulking sport-utility vehicle such as the Audi Q7.
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We've had ample opportunity to ogle the electrical version of Fiat's venerable 500 when the Italian firm fortold its US arrival years ago.
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The plan is to grow the Alfa Romeo and Maserati brands globally and flesh out the Jeep lineup, including the addition of a new small SUV, while limiting the Fiat brand to derivatives of its 500 and Panda small cars and scaling back its struggling Lancia brand.
The 500, a modern remake of Fiat's iconic Cinquecento (first introduced in 1957), was celebrated by the automotive press as Europe's car of the year after its debut in 2007.
For years, it has raced ahead of the Premier Padmini, a roomier but relatively unwieldy and less fuel-efficient car modeled on a 1951 Fiat, and the Fiat Uno, which sold only 8, 500 units in the past year.
In December, Opel said it would end car production at its Bochum manufacturing plant in Germany in 2016, with the loss of up to 3, 300 jobs at the factory, plus many more with suppliers, while Fiat has said it will cut 1, 500 jobs at its plant in Tychy in Poland.
So is the 500 a dazzling digression, or confirmation that Fiat is back?
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