Photo: X-Tomi Design
Fiat's Cinquecento was never a car for the adventurous clientele unless adventure meant to travel on narrow and crowded city streets trying to sneak between other cars and save precious time.
With the Fiat 500 facelift's arrival, the familiar Italian mini-ride got the breath of air it deserved and needed at the same time, to keep up with the competition.
Still, that doesn't make the Fiat 500 a car you would take outside the city, and it goes without saying that back roads and broken stretches of asphalt or gravel are out of the question.
However, since Opel/Vauxhall showed us even small urban vehicles could earn the appearance of a crossover courtesy of the Adam Rocks, we present you this: the Fiat 500 Trekking.
It won't make it in production because it's not even an official rendering or concept from Fiat. X-Tomi Design manipulated the image you see above by using the facelifted 2016 Fiat 500 as starting canvas.
Compared to the real deal, this imaginary Fiat 500 Trekking received a set of exterior components that make it look tougher than its "La Dolce Vita" DNA allows it to be. There's a beefed-up front bumper promising to take car of the car's front, along with plastic cladding for the side skirts and wheel arches, topped-off by a set of offroad-wannabe rims.
We wouldn't take neither this Fiat Trekker nor the real-life Cinquecento outside urban areas for the same reason you don't remove a fish from the ocean and expect it to thrive in a tree. But who knows, maybe some customers would like a manlier Fiat 500, despite us thinking it would be a bad idea.
Still, that doesn't make the Fiat 500 a car you would take outside the city, and it goes without saying that back roads and broken stretches of asphalt or gravel are out of the question.
However, since Opel/Vauxhall showed us even small urban vehicles could earn the appearance of a crossover courtesy of the Adam Rocks, we present you this: the Fiat 500 Trekking.
It won't make it in production because it's not even an official rendering or concept from Fiat. X-Tomi Design manipulated the image you see above by using the facelifted 2016 Fiat 500 as starting canvas.
Compared to the real deal, this imaginary Fiat 500 Trekking received a set of exterior components that make it look tougher than its "La Dolce Vita" DNA allows it to be. There's a beefed-up front bumper promising to take car of the car's front, along with plastic cladding for the side skirts and wheel arches, topped-off by a set of offroad-wannabe rims.
We wouldn't take neither this Fiat Trekker nor the real-life Cinquecento outside urban areas for the same reason you don't remove a fish from the ocean and expect it to thrive in a tree. But who knows, maybe some customers would like a manlier Fiat 500, despite us thinking it would be a bad idea.
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