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Three-hundred and sixty-five Pandas welcome Panda Waze - It's a record!
Three-hundred and sixty-five Pandas welcome Panda Waze - It's a record!
The second edition of "Panda a Pandino", the international gathering of Panda owners from all across Europe - from Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK and Austria - took place on June 24. In short, there is a Panda for everyone for every day, for all nationalities and all ages, and 365 of them met up in Pandino breaking all records and making this the biggest Panda gathering in the world.
The guest of honour of this second edition was the new Panda Waze, the most socially connected Panda ever, and rather aptly, one could say, since this event came into fruition on social media. The original idea started as little more than a joke in 2017 when a young Panda owner from the south of Italy announced on Facebook her intention to drive with her friends in their little car - popularly known as "Pandino" in Italian - to the town in the north of the country of the same name. And word of mouth, typical of the social media channels, saw to the rest. On 18 June 2017, the official date of the first edition, more than 200 past and present Fiat Panda cars turned up, from all over Italy.
The crews met up in front of Pandino Castle, the striking hunting residence of the Visonti family which dates back to the mid-1300s, where an event in the event was staged when some 200 cars spelled out the words "Panda Waze" with the aid of colourful boards to welcome the new Panda Waze. The lively procession then left the castle to parade through several nearby towns and villages over a 27 kilometre route: first the lovely village of Gradella with its distinctive yellow-painted houses trimmed with red bricks, and then on to Rivolta d'Adda and Spino d'Adda.
An impressive impressive commercial success, for a model which, together with Fiat 500, has been Europe's best-selling city car since 2003. The leadership confirmed also during the first four months of 2018, when Panda and Fiat 500 headed their segments in Europe with a market share of 29.1%,. The car is the resounding leader in Italy (with a market share of just under 40%) and Greece and in the first three places in Spain, Portugal and Austria.

