Modifying a car is all well and good for as long as the result is something that can draw attention for the better. When it’s for the worse, then, that’s not really counted as ‘modding’, right?
This Fiat Panda seems like another regular car at first glance. You’re probably thinking “where’s the mod in that?’
That’s when we implore you to take a closer look. Once you have, you probably already noticed that this pint-sized Fiat Panda has...a BMW badge.
You’re eyes aren’t seeing things. That’s a BMW badge – on a Fiat. Now, it seems preposterous – and sacrilegious – to be putting a car badge on a rival car maker, but apparently, the guy who did this doesn’t care. That or he really believes from the bottom of his heart that he can dupe people into thinking that he really has a BMW.
If we can offer some advice to this fellow, we’ll tell him to keep the car in his garage. And yes, we’re doing him a favour by saying that.
Imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery, but there is no love in complete theft. Fiat sued China’s Great Wall Motor because it thinks the GWPeri looks a little bit too much like its best-selling Panda. An Italian court (and the rest of the world) agreed, saying, "the [GWPeri] does not look like a different car but is a Panda with a different front end." The court basically blocked Great Wall from selling the Peri in Europe by adding a €50,000 fee to the car as well as having to pay Fiat €15,000 for every car sold. To put it another way, would you pay $105,000 for a Chevrolet HHR
The Frankfurt Show hosts the world debut of the Panda Aria concept car, which illustrates Fiat’s viewpoint of cars with a low environmental impact. This concept car represents the last frontier achievable in terms of emissions and consumption, by synergetically associating sustainable technologies already in existence or soon to be industrialised, a practical demonstration of Fiat’s commitment to the environment. > More
A vehicle with original styling that is striking for its dynamism. Once you climb aboard, the same car conveys all the practicality and comfort of a higher category car. This, in brief, is the spirit of the new supermini due to go on sale in September. Its name? The Panda.
Appealing, easy to remember and sustained by the over twenty years of success of the model launched in 1980, the Panda name is part of Fiat’s heritage.
It is, therefore, a symbolic hand-over. September 5 marks the last (...) > More
The preliminary operations for Dakar 2007 get under way with the technical checks scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday 3 January) in Lisbon. Two Fiat Panda Cross’s are entered in this gruelling African marathon which starts on Saturday 6 January 2007 and ends in the capital of Senegal on 21 January.
The two cars – renamed PanDAKAR for the occasion – are in the hands of Miki Biasion, paired with Tiziano Siviero, and Frenchman Bruno Saby, with the Italian Rudy Briani as co-driver. Both are (...) > More
After Chinese carmaker ’Great Wall’, presented the ’Peri’, a very close copy of the Fiat Panda, at the Beijing Motor Show last month, Fiat may sue Chinese rival > More
The new Fiat Panda Monster, a very special edition version of the Panda SUV which will be limited to just 695 units and only be available in black, becomes ready for public ordering. The new model has been realised in partnership with Italian motorbike manufacturer Ducati, taking its name from the famous Ducati Monster 695, the latest in the famous ’Monster’ line, which was introduced in February.
The Panda Monster was first presented in public on the occasion of the Bologna Motor Show (...) > More
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