FIAT Brings the 500 Back Home With New Hybrid Torino Edition

FIAT Brings the 500 Back Home With New Hybrid Torino Edition​

A Hometown Tribute Built In Turin With Hybrid Power​

FIAT is bringing its most famous city car back to its roots. The Italian brand has revealed the new 500 Hybrid Torino, a special edition that marks the return of the 500 to its hometown of Turin and its historic Mirafiori Assembly Plant. This debut isn’t just about another model—it’s about heritage, identity, and a new chapter for FIAT as it blends tradition with modern hybrid technology.

FIAT Brings the 500 Back Home With New Hybrid Torino Edition

FIAT brings the 500 back home with the new Hybrid Torino Edition, celebrating heritage and modern technology.

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[patfromigh]

This particular hybrid setup would flop here in America. It doesn't have any horsepower. It's sad because it would be nice to have a basic Fiat 500 model. It would also be nice to have the Grande Panda offered here as well. Now that we've seen the American built version of the EP6 1.6 liter four cylinder engine, I'm wondering if that will fit under the hood in place of those Euro 3 cylinder units in either the 500 or Grande Panda. I like the idea of a six-speed manual with a BSG, but combined instead with the Dundee built four which has 2 and 1/2 times the horsepower of the 1 liter three cylinder of the 500 Torino Hybrid model. That would make an awesome Abarth model.

Latin American Fiats are getting the 1.5L GSE-T operating on the Miller Cycle, and combine that with a six-speed automatic, using a single electric motor in place of a torque converter. Products like that are why The Latin American operations keep Fiat alive.

 

[TripleT]

Grand Panda should be build here.


My Daughter wants to replace her 2015 500 and the 3 cylinder hybrid is fine for her.

 

[patfromigh]

The sales of the Fiat 500 in the US do not justify a facility to build that model here. The 500 is built on a different platform than the Smart based Grande Panda. Is there a business case for building vehicles based on the Smart platform here? I think so, but I don't know which facilities are available for that.

Fiat has three new Smart based vehicles in the pipeline, a C-segment SUV (F2U), a fastback C segment crossover (F2X), and a global lifestyle pickup similar to the Strada currently made in Brazil. (The term "lifestyle Pickup" is an American idiom that I use, Europeans don't use that term.) The next Jeep Renegade could be derived from the F2U and the fastback crossover could be a Chrysler or Dodge model. If the vehicles are built here, they could have styling unique to the American brands. The Grande Panda could also be built here avoiding any tariffs.

Some of the European enthusiast websites are saying there is a very credible rumor that the 1.2 liter, EB2 Gen3 three cylinder engine will receive all the same upgrades that Dundee, MI built 1.6 liter four cylinder received for North American hybrid duty. Both the 3 and 4 cylinder engines are of the same engine family and share the same architecture. It wouldn't be difficult to build the 1.2 three cylinder engine in Dundee, since it also shares many parts with the 1.6 four.

The Fiat 500e could be repurposed into a PHEV using an American built engine and transmission along with other domestic supplier parts to minimize the tariff hit.