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2025 Fiat Grande Panda Unofficially Gets the Digital Abarth Treatment, Looks Spot On

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Just in case you didn't know, Fiat is still around in Stellantis' family of brands – and they're thriving, even though some fans might claim they're but a shivering shadow of their former selves.
However, Fiat has never been a brand that needs to stand out in any crowd like Ferrari, for example. If you need evidence that they're alive and kicking, even thriving, we can easily remember that Fiat outsold all the other Stellantis brands last year, again! In some countries, like Algeria, it is even pretty darn impossible to fathom market shares of 78.6 percent! Anyway, the naysayers will soon have little to comment because Fiat is diligently bringing back the iconic 500 in electric form to America, and the all-new fourth-generation Fiat Grande Panda may look like a funky concept, but it's actually a production vehicle – easily showing that fun designs aren't dead.

If you need even more evidence they know what they're doing, let's remember that Fiat's larger Grande Panda (which doesn't replace the old Panda) has its shoelaces tied on the Stellantis Smart Car Platform with the all-new Citroen C3, Opel Frontera, and the all-new Citroen C3 Aircross among others. Offered with hybrid and all-electric powertrains, it will be the trigger factor for additional Fiat models offered in various regions – including a revival of the Multipla, the next compact pickup truck, or the 2026 Fiat Fastback.

Because the Italian automaker has fans all over the world, even across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators, some weren't patient enough to wait for the company's official introduction events for these new models. As such, Kleber Silva, a Brazil-based virtual artist known as KDesign AG on social media, has decided to have a CGI go at imagining an entire Grande Panda family – in fantasy land.

First and foremost, the pixel master dreamed of the next Fiat Argo or Uno, but the differences between the Grande Panda and this smaller hatchback are too hard to observe. Instead, it's way easier to understand the changes involved with the creation of the next Fiat Fastback, as well as the well-known (in South America) Strada unibody compact pickup truck. But wait, that wasn't all.

Instead, the lineup inspired by the new Grande Panda also got a seven-seat crossover SUV version inspired by the new Citroen C3 Aircross as well as – more importantly – a sporty derivative. As such, in this parallel universe of vehicular CGI, the Abarth 500e and 600e will also be joined by the Abarth Grande Panda.

Naturally, the CGI expert took care of the looks, and we should help him with the unofficial discussion about the potential powertrain. Well, that's easy – the best suspect for a quick powertrain swap is none other than Abarth's new 600e, which rocks 237 horsepower under the hood and some mighty sporty mechanical tweaks like a lowered suspension, widened track, and aerodynamic enhancements.


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About the author: Aurel Niculescu
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Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution.
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