Fiat 500 displayed as an icon of ‘Good Design’ at NYC’s Museum of Modern Art

The Fiat 500 on display at the MoMA for the exhibit is a Series F model. One of the most recognizable car designs in the world, the Series F was manufactured between 1965 and 1972, and served as the inspiration of the retro-styled 2019 Fiat 500. More than 4 million Fiat 500s rolled off the assembly lines between the model’s introduction in 1957 and the discontinuation of the original design in 1975. Since the all-new, heritage-inspired Fiat 500 was reintroduced in 2007, more than six million of the “new 500” have been sold, making it one of the best selling cars of all time.

Created by Fiat designer Dante Giacosa in 1957, the first generation Fiat 500 was originally developed as an affordable, high-quality, easy-to-build design built for narrow European streets at a time when the continent was still reeling from the effects of World War II. While the car was small on the outside, Giacosa’s clever design maximized interior space — a quality that’s evident today in the surprisingly roomy 2019 Fiat 500.

Every original Fiat 500 featured a standard folding cloth cabriolet top which rolled back while leaving the door and rear window frames in place. At the time, Fiat added the soft top to save a few square feet of precious and then-expensive sheet metal, but the feature has since become a beloved hallmark of the early Fiat 500s. It is retained in the 2019 Fiat 500 in the form of the optional cabriolet cloth top.

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