Get beach-ready with this pleasant tackle the brand new Fiat Topolino

The venerable Italian coachbuilder Castagna Milano has turned its consideration to Fiat’s tiny new Topolino, the cute-as-a-button spinoff of the Citroën Ami electrical quadricycle. Though each originals have character in spades, Castagna Milano has ramped up the detailing, impressed by the unique Fiat 500 Jolly from the Nineteen Fifties, to create a bespoke electrical runaround designed for silent seaside journey.

Fiat Topolino Spiaggina by Castagna Milano

The Jolly was an unique Fiat 500 reworked into an ultra-light seaside automobile on the behest of Fiat’s CEO, Gianni Agnelli – one thing that was an aesthetic match for the household yacht, the 82ft Agneta. (The Fiat 500 Jolly Spiaggina Icon-e noticed it reimagined in 2019.)

Constructed by Ghia, the Jolly had a striped canvas roof and wicker seats. It grew to become a cult automobile, with round 400 constructed, in addition to rivals within the type of the toylike Vignale Gamine and the Bonacina Spiaggina, with its woven rattan seats made by the legendary furnishings firm.

Castagna Milano’s Spiaggina blends the Bonacina aesthetic with a nautical look impressed by Riva yachts and different upscale Mediterranean pleasure craft, with teak and chrome detailing, a striped canvas roof and seat inserts that mimic the wicker really feel of the unique. The corporate additionally affords an prolonged model, including 30cm of size to show the strict two-seater into one thing a tiny bit extra sensible, with an prolonged rear deck and storage compartments.

The Milanese agency has carried out comparable conversions to fashionable Fiat 500s and even Minis lately, however the transformation of the Topolino is their tiniest creation to this point.

Fiat 500 Spiaggina by Storage Italia Customs

If that’s not fairly to your style, there’s one other means of getting an electrified dose of retro Riviera model. Storage Italia Customs, the esoteric workshop founder by Fiat inheritor Lapo Elkann in 2017, will produce a customized unique 500 with a full electrification package deal.

The Fiat 500 Spiaggina by Storage Italia Customs is a fantastically crafted piece of equipment, utilizing fashionable upgrades (the powertrain, a digital recreation of the five hundred’s minimalist instrument panel) and newly put in parts to make create a zippy four-seater.

Customisation choices are centered on the color and trim, with the Bonacina-built rattan seats that may be left uncooked or specifically painted, and the furnishings maker may even make a rattan picnic field to lock to the rear of the automobile.

Fiat Topolino Spiaggina, from 25,000 euros, Carrozzeria Castagna, CarrozzeriaCastagna.it