Italdesign ID Cinquecento

The Italdesign ID Cinquecento is a static design model for a small saloon that Italdesign showed at the 1992 Turin Motor Show, a reinterpretation for the 1990s of the idea behind the Fiat Cinquecento, the icon of post-war mass motoring that put Italy on wheels from 1955. ANFIA, the Italian carmakers' association, had called on the country's coachbuilders to reinterpret the Cinquecento theme, at the invitation of FIAT itself, which made an example of the original car available. Italdesign's answer was designed exclusively to weave nimbly through town traffic. Carstyling.ru, citing Russian press, describes it as a simple plasticine mock-up whose belt line and sliding fabric roof recall the original and whose one-volume layout celebrated the original's main virtue, the most room in the least size. The public received the unusual model kindly, and the following year Italdesign built the running Lucciola prototype from it, which subsequently became the Daewoo Matiz.