The first time Italians saw her on the street was July 4, 1957 and it was immediately love. The Fiat 500, the car most loved by Italians and a true icon of Made in Italy, turns 60.
The Fiat 500 anticipated the economic boom of Italy and was the sign of the working class in heaven and today the automotive group led by Sergio Marchionne celebrates it.
The Fiat utilitarian was born almost by chance and was designed by the engineer Dante Giacosa, a young engineer who graduated from the Turin Polytechnic and favorite pupil of the legendary Vittorio Valletta, the Agnelli's trusted man who commanded the company with an iron fist and great foresight. Fiat.
Handy as it was, rounded, inexpensive, the Fiat 500 immediately conquered the Italians and marked an era, that of an Italy full of hope which, after the pains of war, was beginning to pull itself together and become one of the major industrial countries of the world. It is still regretted now. Both the Fiat 500 and that era.
The Fiat 500 will become part of the permanent gallery of the Museum of Modern Art (the legendary Moma) in New York.
