Panda 4x4 Offroader

The engineering idea, covered by patent, was developed by Giugiaro’s Mechanical Design Department and was transferred after the presentation of the cars at the 1980 Turin Motor Show to the Fiat group, who in cooperation with the Austrian company Steyr-Puch put the Panda 4x4 in production in June 1983. The Panda 4x4 retains the body of the production car, while the interior features sophisticated leather trim with slip-on coverings that necessitated no modifications to the pressed production parts. The instrument cluster, unchanged, saw the addition of an attitude gauge: uphill, downhill and axial.