The Panda was quite the very versatile car. This special edition named Bianca is the polar opposite of the rugged and utilitarian Fiat Panda 4×4 we looked at recently. And with Bianca’s top opened up, the views are splendid.
Beach Time: Fiat Panda Bianca – Boxy and Foxy
– Posted on August 11, 2012
Interesting. It reminds me of the special edition Triple White New Beetle from a few years back. I sat in one in the showroom, and I have to admit, I liked that white interior.
And being a child of the ’80s, I’d be remiss not to mention the triple white VW Rabbit convertibles. Those were very popular!
When I grow up, i want to be Italian.
Sorry guys, I’ve stared at that picture, walked away, came back, still can’t find a car in that picture.
I noticed the car – eventually!
Anyone besides me see more than a little of the Yugo in that?
The Yugo was based on the Fiat 127; but had entirely different sheet metal. I was of the impression it was a one-off for the Zastava works, but…the Panda is almost a dead ringer for it.
I can see where you’re coming from but in person the resemblance just isn’t there. We had a 127 and a Panda for a time when I was a kid and they just have completely different characters in the metal.
I can see where you’re coming from but in person the resemblance just isn’t there. We had a 127 and a Panda for a time when I was a kid and they just have completely different characters in the metal. The 127′s “slighter” stance and flimsier feel carried over into the Yugo, while the Panda always looked sturdier and more planted…
… and at the risk of sounding like a designer, park a Yugo and a Panda alongside each other and you can tell which one was penned by Giorgetto Giugiaro.
What does this car have on the respectable 4×4 apart from the white paint? Looks like a fake `special’ edition to me. Just chop off the roof and here we go! Or does `bianca’ mean `white’, so its a White edition(?)
‘bianca’ does mean white, but Bianca is also obviously a womens’ first name in Italian (the cognate of Blanche in French, Blanca in Spanish, Branca in Portugese, Bianka in some Eastern European languages, etc.), so there may be a bit of a pun/double meaning with the girl in the photo.
I have to wonder if the Bianca edition would have been marketed mostly to young women, the same way the VW Cabrio or Geo Storm had a reputation in the U.S. as a “girl’s car”.
@CarCounter: the last one you said, it’s only a cosmetic special version, they made hundreds out of it…I remember that a friend of mine’s grandpa had the “Italia ’90” version, made for the international soccer cup that took place in Italy 22 years ago…http://www.autopareri.com/forum/auto-depoca/42591-fiat-panda-italia-90-a.html
it was funny but I wouldn’t be caught dead to drive that thing ! Anyway there are lots of special versions that weren’t aimed for italian market, I’ve never saw a “Bianca” around, much less with a hot girl near it !
Thanks for the info. I’ll take the complete package shown any day, sell the car and keep the girl. 🙂 (No offence to the female species.) With Bianca’s top opened up, the views must be splendid indeed.
I know this car.
In college I did a semester in Europe. Me and 2 guys rented its sister car, the Seat Marbella, to drive up and down the French and Spanish coast. With 3 people and gear, it was like being crammed into the clown car.
I remember keeping the gas pedal all the way down and still only doing 60 or 65.
This photograph demonstrates the superiority of curves over angles.
+1
I owned one of these. It was the second car I ever owned.
My Father bought it for me as a gift after my Fiat 128 3p was written off.
I thought he was joking, not exactly a macho car for a boy in his late teens.
However, it proved to be excellent fun to drive, you could push this little car to it’s limits on public roads and not expect to see flashing blue lights in your rear view mirror.
It also proved to be extremely reliable, I owned it for 5 yrs. I always did my own servicing, and it never ever broke down.
I sold it for a bigger car, and to this day wish I had kept it.
The double cloth sunroof effectively turned it into a Targa, and it could drive almost anywhere (I drove it over a mountain once by floowing an old cart track).