GFG Style has recast the Fiat Topolino from an ultra-basic city runabout into two open-air leisure concepts, shifting the car’s identity toward seaside and circuit-adjacent play rather than urban errand duty. The most eye-catching is the Top. L, a roofless, two-seat barchetta that leans into vintage racing style while retaining the Topolino’s low-speed character.
The Story in Pictures
Built from the doorless Dolcevita version of the Topolino, the Top. L removes the roof entirely and trims the windshield down to a narrow visor. The cabin receives upscale touches, including aquamarine leather and Alcantara upholstery, but the conversion does not alter performance. The Topolino’s Low Speed Vehicle configuration, which is headed to U.S.-spec examples, limits top speed to 25 mph, so the Top. L is about style and sensation rather than outright pace.
GFG Style, the studio founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro and his son Fabrizio, developed the Top. L with involvement from Lapo Elkann. The design poses a what-if scenario: imagine the tiny EV roaming Monaco rather than narrow city streets. Photos accompanying the reveal even show a helmeted driver to underline the car’s sporting pretence, though the spec sheet remains unchanged.
The sibling concept, Top. J, channels the 1960s Fiat Jolly. It adds a canvas roof and terry-cloth seats as a wink to the Jolly’s wicker furnishings, and it sacrifices the trunk for a rear bench so the vehicle can carry four passengers back to a yacht or beachside dock. Both concepts emphasise leisure, sunlight and easy stowage over practical cargo solutions.
From a production perspective the pair are primarily styling exercises. The Top. L especially reads as a fanciful reimagining rather than a near-term model; similar tiny EVs have struggled in demanding driving scenarios, as when a rented microcar lost its composure on a Monaco hairpin in a previous test. Still, these concept treatments succeed at raising the Topolino’s profile and recasting it as a lifestyle object for gated communities and coastal resorts. If you do decide to rent one for sunny cruising, the designers’ choice of helmeted imagery is a reminder that the experience is about exposure to the elements as much as about acceleration.
