The five hundred Scattante by La Cinquecento: a bespoke Fiat 500

The five hundred Scattante from new British Automotive Studio La Cinquecento makes a welcome change from the deluge of fire-breathing, ultra-high-performance restomods which have come to dominate the market in restored and uprated basic vehicles.

The five hundred Scattante is the precise reverse but has equal quantities of allure. That includes a brand new engine – sourced on this case from the Fiat 500’s successor, the Seventies Fiat 126 – with all-new suspension, braking, steering, cooling and electrical methods, the Scattante (Italian for ‘sprightly’) additionally has renewed and refreshed bodywork and particulars.

Founder Max Kindersley approached Milan-based design consultancy BorromeodeSilva to hone and refine the acquainted authentic, transforming each aspect of the shape with out dropping sight of the qualities that make the 1957 authentic such an icon with added performance for the fashionable driver.

The undertaking was born out of a long-standing fascination with the automotive. A Fiat 500 had been in Kindersley’s household for many years, spending the final 25 years or so tucked away forgotten in a barn. This 1973 automotive was to type the idea of the brand new undertaking and new firm.

’I’ve all the time liked what the Fiat 500 represents,’ says Kindersley, ‘It’s easy, mild, stuffed with character and makes individuals smile. The thought was by no means to vary that. We wished to take every thing that makes the unique so particular and see how far we may develop it – to make it sooner, sharper and higher engineered, with out dropping the explanation you wished a 500 within the first place.’

BorromeodeSilva’s bodywork widens the automotive’s stance, including facet skirts and including minimalist wheels and rally-inspired further entrance lights. To the informal observer, it may not be a lot, however for a real aficionado, one thing particular is clearly afoot.

That spotlight to element continues below the pores and skin, with a meticulously put in Fiat 126-derived two-cylinder engine with a twin-spark ignition system. All of the revisions and updates have been created to make the Scattante extra partaking and responsive.

Potential prospects are actually being invited to contact La Cinquecento with plans of their very own as a restricted collection of individually numbered vehicles is within the offing.