The Fiat Topolino is the smallest and cheapest offering from the Italian brand, designed as a twin to the Citroen Ami. The L6e light quadricycle classification comes with weight and performance limitations, but it didn’t stop seasoned automotive designer Fabrizio Giugiaro and Italian entrepreneur Lapo Elkann from using it as a base for their latest project.

The two men are close friends and wanted to create something together for a long time. Instead of building an exotic supercar or an expensive restomod, their first project was to “take one of the smallest and most accessible cars on the road and turn it into something surprising – something capable of delivering emotion and fun.”

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The result is a pair of Topolino-based concepts created by GFG Style, the design studio founded by Giorgetto and Fabrizio Giugiaro after leaving Italdesign. The Top. L (Love) is a roofless speedster, and the Top. J (Joy) is a four-seater with a fabric top.

A Tiny Speedster With A Big Attitude

Top. L by GFG Style

The Top. L swaps the roof and greenhouse of the Topolino for a short wraparound windshield. Instead of doors, the concept is fitted with Wicker Ropes, which are available as an option on the roadgoing Topolino Dolcevita.

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Other highlights include redesigned LED headlights reminiscent of the Fiat 500, vintage-style multi-spoke chrome wheels, and a Matte Aquamarine exterior finish combined with matching leather and Alcantara upholstery. According to GFG Style, the attitude of the Top. L was inspired by James Dean’s iconic Porsche 550 Spyder nicknamed “Little Bastard”.

A Four-Seater Version With An Asterisk

Top. J by GFG Style

Next is the Top. J, designed to accommodate four people in an unconventional configuration. The cargo area has been retrofitted with a rearward-facing bench, leaving the legs of the rear passengers hanging over the rear bumper. The additional seats mean that the Top. J doesn’t comply with the L6e regulations, and could only be registered in the higher L7e segment.

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The model features a cloth canopy for sun protection and tube doors for an open-air driving experience, skipping the windows entirely.

The blue and green livery is inspired by the Ferrari 166 MM driven by Avvocato Gianni Agnelli in the ’50s, while matching the preferences of Umberto Agnelli and Lapo Elkann’s signature colors from his time at Garage Italia. The same theme continues inside the cabin, with blue and green shades for the terry cloth and leather upholstery.

No Changes Under The Skin

The concepts retain the underpinnings of the Topolino. The factory setup includes a single electric motor producing 8 hp (6 kW) and a 5.5 kWh battery for a claimed 47 miles (75 km) of range. While the little Fiat won’t set any speed records, Lapo and Fabrizio claim that “passion for cars has nothing to do with horsepower.”

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Lapo Elkann said: “Fabrizio and I had wanted to create something together for a long time. We share a friendship, a passion for cars, design and motion, and above all a lateral way of thinking. We had fun transforming the Topolino, playing with colors, materials and volumes.”

The company didn’t announce any production plans, but Fabrizio Giugiaro and Lapo Elkann confirmed their intention to continue their collaboration with more projects in the future.

Not The First Special Topolinos

GFG Style is not the first company to redesign the EV. Back in 2024, Italian firms Castagna Milano and Carrozzeria Garavini took on the same challenge, resulting in a pair of coachbuilt specials available for sale in limited numbers as pricey conversions.

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Fiat has also capitalized on customization options for the Topolino by unveiling the Sport and Vilebrequin variants alongside the mechanically-related Multiplina four-seater concept earlier this year. Furthermore, there are rumors about a potential Abarth-branded version of the EV, although any upgrades will be focused on styling.

Do Rolls Royce owners even open their trunks, or do they have someone to do it for them? We’re not rich enough to know the answer, but whoever is tasked with stashing and retrieving luggage from the automaker’s coachbuilt Nightingale roadsters won’t have to worry about the trunk mechanism going wrong. By our estimation it will have seen 200 years’ worth of action before being delivered.

The Nightingale is a fully electric convertible that must be the sportiest thing to feature the Spirit of Ecstasy since Henry Royce was still steering the ship in the early 1930s. It kicks off the brand’s Coachbuild Collection series and is limited to 100 units. Each one is estimated to set its owner back a staggering $9.5 million, and that’s before Rolls adds any really special personalization requests to the bill.

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At a colossal 226.8 inches (5,760 mm) long, and offering space for only two passengers, the Nightingale has the kind of length to seats ratio that makes even Detroit’s most wasteful 1970s land yachts look as space efficient as a Japanese Kei car. But because the design draws inspiration from luxury watercraft, it kind of works. Hey, we said “kind of.”

My favourite feature is the tiny cashmere top that’s been designed to let the sound of raindrops through, while blocking out what little mechanical noise the electric powertrain generates. But the most arresting feature is certainly that huge boat-tail rear end and the “piano boot” (trunk) that opens sideways like the lid on a baby grand.

Rolls Royce says the mechanism is subjected to 15,000 cycles of opening and closing, ensuring repeated use “never interrupts the perfect theatre and effortless operation of this hallmark gesture for generations to come.”

Two Lifetimes Of Use

Assuming these cars are used maybe once a week (and that’s probably a generous assumption), and the trunk is used opened and closed twice on each of those days, Rolls has probably tested the hardware for the equivalent of around 150 years of use.

But that’s not the only testing the automaker has planned for the Nightingale, which translates as Le Rossigni in French, and was the name of Henry Royce’s villa on the Riviera. Royce and his team used the villa as a testing base when putting cars through their paces across Europe, and the modern Rolls claims it will spend 350 weeks testing the coachbuilt convertibles in similar locales.

They’ll be subjected to twisty Mediterranean roads, snowy Arctic Circle ones and even tackle North African deserts and 2,750 m (9,020 ft) mountains. Most of which, owners will never do, just as they’re unlikely to test the accuracy of the 155 mph (250 km/h) speed limiters. But when you’re trying to sell someone a car costing the thick end of $10 million, you damn well better get it right.

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Camo-free sightings of Porsche’s new Boxster EV point to a debut later this year and a 2027 on-sale date. But if you’re dead-set on a brand new Porsche-branded electric sports car for less than $100k and can’t wait that long, there is another option. The snag is you’ll only be able to cruise it to the end of your driveway and back.

It’s called the 500J, and it’s from Hedley Studios. They’re the folks who previously went by the name Little Car Company and built electric-powered scale replicas of classic legends for the likes of Aston Martin, Ferrari, Bugatti and Bentley. As with those previous projects, the 550J was created in partnership with the automaker using real technical drawings and specifications stashed in the archives.

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The original Porsche 550 was built between 1953 and 1956 and is most famous for either being James Dean’s last ride, or a motorsport giant killer, depending on your interest in pop culture and racing. On the track, it used its tiny 1,213 lbs (550 kg) curb weight and 109-133 hp (110-135 PS) 1.5-liter boxer engine to score wins at major events like Le Mans, the Mille Miglia, and the Carrera Panamericana. Only 90 were built, and they’re now worth anything from $1.5 million to $5 million depending on racing provenance.

Hedley’s flyweight 728 lbs (330 kg) 550J is based on the later 550 A, which arrived in 1956 and replaced the original ladder chassis with a much stiffer steel spaceframe. But instead of the original’s aluminium body, the scale tribute gets a carbon fiber suit. And instead of a Type 547 Fuhrmann four-cam, there’s a single electric motor behind the rear seats.

Drilled Rotors But Only 22 HP

In stock form, that motor delivers just 11 hp (11 PS / 8 kW) and a 40 mph (64 km/h) top speed. But spring for the optional RS Pack and output is boosted to 22 hp (22 PS / 16 kW), and the top speed to 50 mph (81 km/h). Going the RS route also brings drilled brake discs and adjustable Bilstein dampers, while also lifting the electric range from 30 to 50 miles (48-81 km).

Which sounds fairly pointless since, unlike some of Hedley’s other cars, this one can’t be used on the road. And that, together with a price that’d net you a nice used Porsche, ought to make it the kind of niche trinket that sells in handfuls. But Hedley plans to build 250 of these, each costing £69,500 ($93,800) before taxes and personalization requests. Besides adding the RS Pack, buyers can option theirs with period liveries and even paint-to-sample colors, just like on a full-size Porsche.

Barmy Not To Get A Beck Instead?

The idea of shelling out six figures on what is really just a beautifully crafted toy probably sounds as ludicrous to you as it does to me. But saying that you’d rather spend that $94k on a brand new full-size Beck 550 at Indiana-based Special Edition misses the point.

Seriously rich people live in a different world where they can have both to keep their real 550 company, and throw in a Boxster Electric order for fun. Hedley Studios is just helping them do some of the crazy things we’d all do if we had too much money. What do you think the company’s next scale replica should be?

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