Going Fiat

Felipe Massa driving the most powerful 500 that Fiat have ever made

Sep 04, 2008

Should you come across Ferrari Formula One Driver, Felipe Massa, driving his new Fiat 500 don’t be tempted to take him on because not only is the talented Brazilian one of the fastest drivers around but also because his 500 is rather special – it’s the most powerful 500 that Fiat have ever made.

Australian sporting legend Don Elgin invited to drive in the 2008 Celebrity Challenge

Sep 04, 2007

Paralympic champion Don Elgin is the latest Australian sporting legend invited to drive in the Celebrity Challenge race at the 2008 FORMULA 1™ ING Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Elgin will be joined in the Celebrity Challenge by an all-star list of sporting heroes from a broad range of sports including netball, cricket, ALF, rugby, athletics, cycling, tennis and surfing.

Fiat team of classic 500s will bid to repeat the result from 1958

Sep 04, 2007

One of the largest groups of race and rally versions of the original Fiat 500 will gather in Belgium in July in a bid to repeat one of the great motorsport victories when the diminutive Fiat took part in one of the classic endurance rallies, the Liege-Brescia-Liege Rally, and not only won after 3300 gruelling km, but also filled six of the top ten places.