Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Fiat 500 Castagna tenderizes

Calling your retrofitted little runabout a tender is apparently all the rage these years. The craft-based theme was just adopted by BRABUS, which balancing a smart fortwo with one of its warp-enabled SLRs. Now, Castagna does the same with Fiat's retro-fied 500. In detail, this isn't the first time that the Milanese coachbuilder has shaped such a procedure, using the MINI Cooper platform just a few years back in the same take way.

In its transformation from athletic little vehicle to a bigger vessel's vessel, the roof, stalk and top are jetisoned in errand of a print layer with which to dodge the stage. On the inside, the routine guts are distant and replaced with teak lumber and rattan slim along with all new seats. As a concession to emissions, the gasoline powerplant is yanked in promote of sails a new electric motor and batteries that are supposedly able of powering the tender some 80 miles at speeds up to 86 miles per hour. No rowing mandatory.