Pope Francis was not a big lover of luxury cars, preferring more humble sedans. Thus, when he did not split the crowds aboard the papamobile, the sovereign pontiff had chosen, for his daily trips, an Italian model with iconic simplicity: the Fiat 500. © Olivier Douliery/Corbis/VCG/Getty_images – Pope Francis aboard a Fiat 500 in 2015 in New York. Save save Receive Fiat alerts Pope Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88, leaving the memory of a state manager who erected humility as a real ideal of life. Thus, he had chosen to accommodate in a small studio rather than in the luxurious pontifical apartments, and – evocative detail – had wished to keep his black shoes instead of the papal red shoes, an additional manifestation of his sobriety. And his car preferences were amendment. As an article of the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Serra indicated in 2023, the Holy Father would have always preferred normal cars to luxury cars: “Pope Francis has made humility one of the many distinctive features of his pontificate, and the cars that accompany him are also humble and common”. In September that year, France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur followed François’s trip to Marseille, lingering on the model of the vehicle in which he had taken place: a Fiat 500. To read also: when Pope Francis asked the cardinals to pay … A rent a fiat papal had been sold at auction 300,000 euros in 2015s, for his official travel, papo Historically sporting the manufacturer’s logo Mercedes, he therefore preferred to him, on a daily basis, the simplicity of the Fiat 500. “The rital vehicle par excellence” commented France 3 in Marseille. It was also on board the Cinquecento that François had visited the New York faithful in 2015. This model had also been auction a year after this papal stroll. Final amount: 300,000 euros. The profits of the sale had been paid to Catholic charitable works. >> Our service – save by testing our AUT insurance comparator Receive our latest news twice a week, automotive news in a glance. (tagstranslate) fiat
