Fiat 500 “Spiaggina ‘58” pays tribute to the ORIGINAL Fiat 500 Jolly

The Fiat 500 “Spiaggina ‘58” arrives as a new limited edition Fiat 500, this time paying tribute to the first limited edition 500 – the 500 Jolly – from 1958.

Love it or hate it – and we admit to loving it – the Fiat 500 has been a remarkable success for Fiat the second time round, so much so it’s now the mainstay of the entire brand.

Fiat has been smart since the ‘New’ 500 arrived, cleverly, at times cynically, delivering ‘Limited Edition’ models to get footfall in to showrooms. And they’re at it again, but this is one of the best limited run Fiat 500s for quite some time – the Fiat 500 “Spiaggina ‘58”.

This is the 60th Anniversary tribute to the Fiat 500 Jolly from 1958, the first Fiat 500 ‘Special’, and Fiat has not only made the 500 Spiaggina suitably retro cute, they’ve also delivered a video with a Volare sound track, which just happens to have been released in 1958 too. It’s beyond pastiche.

The 500 Spiaggina is limited to a run of 1,958 cars (get it?) and evokes, say Fiat, La Dolce Vita, with its convertible only body, exclusive Volare Blue paint job, ivory folding roof, white belt line, vintage style 16″ alloys, chromed door mirrors and Vintage Fiat logos.

Inside there’s more retro Volare Blue and two-tone seats, but there’s also Fiat’s Uconnect 7-inch HD LIVE touchscreen radio with Nav and DAB, 7″ TFT instruments, auto lights and wipers, Climate and parking sensors. Sadly, it only comes with Fiat’s 1.2 litre 68bhp four-pot; it would have felt much more evocative to have the 500’s 0.9 litre Twin Air instead.

Oh, well.