Too much? Chinese customer orders $670k gilded Fiat 500
 

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/convertibles/" rel="tag">Convertible</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/china/" rel="tag">China</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/luxury/" rel="tag">Luxury</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/fiat/" rel="tag">Fiat</a></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fiat-500c-la-dolce-vita-by-fenice-milano/"><img alt="Fiat 500C La Dolce Vita by Fenice Milano" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/web630-004500c-fenice-milano-front-bianca.jpg" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin: 4px 0px; width: 630px; height: 404px;" /></a>
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<em><strong><small>Fiat 500C "La Dolce Vita" - Click above for high-res image gallery, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/22/too-much-chinese-customer-orders-670k-gilded-fiat-500/">follow the jump</a> for video</small></strong></em></div>
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The beauty of the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/500">Fiat 500</a> is that it's loaded with Italian style, but comes cheaper than anything this side of a Vespa. So if you were in the market, how much would you consider spending on a Cinquecento? $20K? Maybe $30k for a fully-loaded Abarth? How about &euro;500,000? That's equivalent to about $670,000, and stands as the absurd price some anonymous Chinese businessman has apparently paid for a particularly <strike>opulent</strike> tacky example of the retro minicar.<br />
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The order came to <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/fenice+milano">Fenice Milano</a>, the Italian studio whose Liberace-grade work we've reported on previously. They started with a 500C Abarth convertible, slathered it in paint infused with real 24k gold flakes, decked the interior out in teak, replaced the brightwork with more 24k gold and gave it a diamond-studded iPad docking into the dashboard. And just for good measure, they let <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/romeo+ferraris">Romeo Ferraris</a> have at it. Their tuning jacked the stock 140-horsepower engine up to 200 hp, and they added Brembo brakes and a custom suspension for good measure.<br />
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The end result is about as nauseating an example of nouveau-riche excess as you're likely to find. If the owner thinks that by tying in his investment to a solid commodity like gold to stave off the negative effects of depreciation, he may be in for a rude awakening come resale time. Check out the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/22/too-much-chinese-customer-orders-670k-gilded-fiat-500/">video footage after the jump</a> and the updated high-resolution image gallery below.<br />
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<div class="postgallery"><p><s trong>Gallery: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fiat-500c-la-dolce-vita-by-fenice-milano">Fiat 500C "La Dolce Vita" by Fenice Milano</a></strong></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fiat-500c-la-dolce-vita-by-fenice-milano/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/004500c-fenice-milano-front-bianca_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fiat-500c-la-dolce-vita-by-fenice-milano/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/004500c-fenice-milano-back-bianca_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fiat-500c-la-dolce-vita-by-fenice-milano/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/004500c-fenice-milano-front-bordeaux_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fiat-500c-la-dolce-vita-by-fenice-milano/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/004500c-fenice-milano-back-bordeaux_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fiat-500c-la-dolce-vita-by-fenice-milano/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/10/front12_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></div><br />
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