The 2027 Fiat Topolino gets a third body style, and the price hasn’t moved. Fiat announced on October 29 that a two-door Open Air version with a soft top that rolls back now joins the tiny electric runabout’s lineup. Meanwhile, the sticker still reads $13,995 before destination.
That is a lot of news for a car about eight feet long. The Topolino arrived in America this summer as a $13,995 electric two-seater, and it has turned into a surprise hit for Fiat. In fact, the company says many dealers sold through their first batch of 2026 cars.
So the 2027 update is less a rescue and more a reward. Fiat added two colors and a better gauge display, and later cars will leave the port ready for public roads. Here is what changes, what stays the same and what the Topolino really is.
What the Open Air adds to the 2027 Fiat Topolino
The headline change is the Open Air. According to Fiat’s announcement on the Stellantis media site, it’s a two-door model with a soft-top roof you roll back by hand. It joins the regular Topolino and the Dolce Vita edition, so buyers now have three ways to order the car.
The difference matters because the launch cars split the roof question in an odd way. A summer report carried by ABC27 described the standard car with conventional doors and a glass roof panel. By contrast, the Dolce Vita had a roll-back fabric roof but used rope-style openings instead of doors. On paper, the Open Air pairs the doors with the folding roof.
Fiat also gave the 2027 car two new colors, Corallo Orange and Luna Greige. Inside, the car gets a new full-color digital instrument cluster. Those are small changes, yet on a car this simple, the screen in front of you is a big part of the experience.
Street legal from the start
The bigger practical change concerns where you can drive it. Fiat says the 2027 Topolino is a low-speed vehicle, or LSV. That is a federal class for small electric cars that may use certain public roads. ABC27 explained that the class covers roads posted at 35 mph or less, while state and local rules also apply.
Early cars did not leave the factory that way. Instead, ABC27 reported that the standard Topolino was meant mainly for private property, with a top speed of 19 mph. A conversion kit raised that to 25 mph and qualified the car as an LSV. Now Fiat says current owners get the LSV kit free, and later 2027 shipments will arrive already street legal.
That makes the car far easier to recommend for beach towns, retirement communities and college campuses. Still, it isn’t a highway car. ABC27 was clear that the Topolino is not meant for interstate driving, towing or heavy hauling.
Small numbers, by design
Everything about the Topolino is small. ABC27 listed an 8-horsepower electric motor and a 5.4-kWh lithium-ion battery. Range is up to 46 miles per charge, and a full charge takes about five hours on a 2.3-kW AC connection. The car weighs just over 1,000 pounds and seats two.
Those figures sound modest because they are. However, the car was never built to compete with Fiat’s own 500e hatchback. It’s an urban runabout, closer in spirit to a golf cart with a roof than to a commuter car. Seen that way, a 46-mile range covers a week of trips to the store, the pool or the marina.
The price explains the rest. ABC27 put destination at $990, for an effective start of $14,985 before taxes and fees. Fiat’s 2027 release keeps the $13,995 MSRP, excluding destination. The company did not list a separate price for the Open Air, so for now the base figure is the one that counts.
A yacht-show special and early awards
Fiat also used the news to show off. It unveiled a one-of-a-kind Topolino built with Sanlorenzo, the Italian yacht maker, at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. The car sat on board a Sanlorenzo SX100 yacht. Its cabin uses natural materials, premium textiles, custom seat belts and leather accents. The floor uses nautical-grade wood inspired by Sanlorenzo’s teak decks.
Behind the marketing sits real interest. “The response from customers has exceeded our expectations,” Andrew Waterhouse, head of Fiat North America, said in the release. Meanwhile, the car has collected praise. It made TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 list in the design category. Then Green Car Journal named it the 2027 Neighborhood Green Car of the Year, which Fiat calls the Topolino’s first automotive award.
For Fiat, the car carries strategic weight too. Stellantis describes the Topolino as its first entry into U.S. micromobility, and it calls itself the first major automaker in that segment here.
How to buy one
Fiat says the 2027 Topolino is available now through select dealers. The brand will also keep offering free home delivery within 50 miles of the selling dealer for 2027 purchases. That suits a car many buyers will park at a vacation home rather than drive off the lot.
There’s an accessory on the way as well. Fiat and Monster are launching Monsterlino, a set of magnetic Bluetooth stereo speakers that attach to the car and snap onto a phone. Fiat says it will be available soon at fiatusa.com.
Our take: the Open Air is the version we’d want. It keeps real doors, and it opens the sky above you. At the same price as the launch car, it also looks like the easiest way into a new Fiat today. The 2027 Topolino starts at $13,995 before destination, the same figure Fiat used when the car reached America this summer.
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