Drink a cappuccino and drive a Fiat 500 on the roof of Fiat's old factory

A cool new café has opened inside the Casa 500 museum at the Fiat’s former factory in Turin.

Situated on the fourth floor of the iconic Pinacoteca Agnelli building at Lingotto the FIATCafé500 gives museum visitors a place to relax after exploring the museum, while looking out on La Pista 500 – the rooftop test track where newly-built cars used to be put through their paces before being sent to dealers.

After fuelling up on caffeine drivers can, once again, take to the track – but only in the electric Fiat 500e, so as not to disturb the ecology of the Pinacoteca Agnelli’s recently-planted garden.

“The FIAT 500 is the icon of dolce vita, but there can be no dolce vita without conviviality, togetherness and in enjoying beautiful, unique and extraordinary places that have made history and continue to do so,” says Olivier Francois, FIAT’s boss. “For this reason, the Casa 500 museum, which looks to the future of the brand, while enhancing its roots, has evolved to create the new “FIATCafé500”, a place designed to welcome people who visit the Casa 500 museum to discover the brand’s vision of sustainable, responsible and electric mobility. And from its windows we can glimpse the exclusive La Pista 500, where the public can walk over the landscape surrounded by art and test drive the New 500, a symbol of joy and lightheartedness, of Italian design and Italian dolce vita.”