Garage Italia Spiaggina MY26: a Pricey Electric Beach Car Built on the Classic Fiat 500

Garage Italia Customs has gone back to the classic Fiat 500 once again. The new Spiaggina MY26 is neither a regular city car nor a mass-market Fiat — it’s a pricey electric beach car steeped in Italian Dolce Vita. The project was unveiled at Milan Design Week 2026, with a starting price of €85,000 plus VAT per unit.

The Spiaggina MY26 harks back to the beach cars of the 1950s and 1960s — open-top vehicles built for seaside resorts, yacht clubs and summer villas. It carries none of the everyday utility of an ordinary 500: this is a collector’s object and a lifestyle statement for buyers who are paying for atmosphere, not mileage. The project itself is a restomod: original Fiat 500s from the era are sourced, restored and fully electrified, with the mechanicals reworked along the way. That’s why Garage Italia puts the focus on hand craftsmanship, materials, colours and bespoke detailing for every single car.

The body has been reworked and the cabin made roomier: passenger space is 17 cm longer, with new storage areas and improved ergonomics. Safety gets front three-point seat belts, and Garage Italia also mentions a revised body structure and a tubular side bumper meant to make the car more usable without killing its beach-car character.

The hardware is more modern than the looks suggest. The Spiaggina MY26 is fully electric: the powertrain, an 11 kWh battery and several other components — including electric power steering and the electric parking brake — are all supplied by Newtron. Claimed range is up to 140 km, plenty for cruising along the coast at a relaxed pace. Inside, a digital instrument cluster now displays the essential driver info. The car is homologated as a heavy quadricycle (L7 category) — which explains both the modest performance and the whole philosophy behind it: this isn’t transport, it’s an accessory for the summer villa.