For 17 years, the retro-styled Fiat 500 has kept the spirit of Fiat's original city car alive as a sales hit throughout Europe. A new generation of electric model called the 500e was introduced in ...

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 ...