After all, Fiat has sold just 439 500es in the United States since they hit the market earlier this year. But the exclusivity of the new 500 isn’t by choice — no one is buying them.

which is the ancestor of today’s Fiat 500. Along with tiny cars such as the Volkswagen Beetle, the Topolino helped pave the way for tiny, fuel-efficient cars in the United States. From the March ...

At the 2012 LA Auto Show, Fiat brand chief and recently crowned marketing genius, Olivier François, attempted to distance the Fiat 500e from other electric vehicles, asking rhetorically ...

So Fiat stuffed an electric powertrain into the 2013 500 and mostly sold them in California and Oregon. It turns out owners loved them, as they were small, zippy, fun to drive and came in riotous ...