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In the same year
that Fiat is set to launch the brand-new and very
eagerly-awaited Fiat 500, Giovanni Viglione, a 100 year old
resident of Roverto in Italy has just had his driving
licence renewed, thus allowing him to keep driving his
original 500 model.
Giovanni Viglioni was 100 years old on Tuesday, and he
didn't want to stop driving his old green Fiat 500 around
the streets of Roverto. So he enquired and obtained a
renewal of his driving licence up to the end of 2007. Mr.
Viglione, who was born in Naples on Jan. 2 1907, and his
friends call him Nino. To celebrate his centennial birthday
his four sons, nine grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren organised a party for him along with
several of his friends from the St. Mary oratory in
Rovereto.
Mr. Viglione was in good form during the party, telling a
journalist from the Trentino daily newspaper about the years
of World War II when he worked at former Alfa Romeo in
Arese, in Milan, which meant he did not end up gingo to the
front. However Nino also remembered World War I, as he was
eight years old in those days. Mr. Viglione, who has been a
pensioner for around 40 years, registered with the
university for the elderly people after he became a widow in
1992. He lives alone now and needs the Fiat 500 to go to
painting lessons.
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In the build up to the
arrival of the new Fiat 500 Fiat are giving sneak
peeks (above) of the forthcoming model on the
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In the same year that Fiat is set to launch a
brand-new Fiat 500, Giovanni Viglione, a 100 year
old resident of Roverto has had his driving licence
renewed allowing him to keep driving his original
500 model. |
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There are now around eight and a half months remaining until
Fiat launch the new 500 model; it will make its first
international motor show appearance at the Frankfurt IAA.
Designed in-house by Fiat Centro Stile it will very closely
follow the styling of the well-received Trepiłno concept
show car, and is set to be built at the Tychy factory in
Poland, and will be based on the architecture of the highly
successful Fiat Panda. The whole project is being realised
in conjunction with Ford who will use the underpinnings to
base their next-generation Ka on. Fiat also plan to build a
powerful turbocharged Abarth version of the new 500, as well
as a convertible.
On the official website (www.fiat500.com) Fiat are building
up to the arrival of the new model with a string of
initiatives under the title "500 wants You", each designed
to raise its profile, including the most recent, "Baby
Boom", where expectant models have the chance to win one of
the new models.
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