It’s a shame that America didn’t get to know Fiat’s brilliant Panda city car. Millions around the world fell in love with the Panda, both for its practicality and its fun-to-drive factor, keeping the first generation of the little hatchback in production from 1980 until 2003.
Credit for the Panda belongs to Giorgetto Giugiaro’s Italdesign. Concerned by the inroads made by French carmakers Citroën and Renault into Italy’s small-car market, Fiat had
