Fiat Celebrates Launch of New Cinquecento With Party, Fireworks

TURIN – The first of Fiat Automobile SpA’s next-generation Fiat 500, known as the Cinquecento here, officially has not been sold yet and already the auto maker is looking for a new production site to handle capacity for the subcompact cars on its A-platform, which until now has been concentrated in Fiat’s Tychy, Poland, plant.

“We had 10,000 (Cinquecento) orders the first day in Italy,” says Luca De ...