Fiat Ritmo Bertone Supercabrio 100S Palinuro 1986 Two-Tone Brown Metallic Mitica 1:18

Bertone's full convertible on the Fiat Ritmo II platform is a coachbuilt rarity that rarely receives serious treatment in scale. MITICA, an Italian resin specialist focused on precisely the kind of low-volume Italian road car that mainstream manufacturers overlook, has produced this 1:18 replica in the two-tone metallic brown 'Palinuro' colour scheme — a finish exclusive to Vroomi. The Ritmo Supercabrio's 3,920 mm body and period-correct soft-top stance translate into a model that stands apart from the usual Italian classics of the 1980s.

A Coachbuilt Convertible from Grugliasco

The Fiat Ritmo Supercabrio was not a standard factory product. Bertone designed the full convertible body — no targa compromise — and it was first shown at the 1982 Geneva Motor Show, built on the Ritmo II (Type 138A) floorpan. The 100S specification paired a twin-Weber-carburetted 1,498 cc SOHC inline-four, producing approximately 100 CV, with a 5-speed manual gearbox. At 3,920 mm overall length, the open body was hand-finished at Bertone's Grugliasco facility, placing it firmly in coachbuilt territory rather than volume production.

The Palinuro: A Mediterranean Name for a Final-Year Variant

Fiat's mid-1980s practice of assigning Mediterranean geographic names to special-edition soft-top variants produced the 'Palinuro' — named after Capo Palinuro, a scenic cape on the Campania coast. The two-tone treatment divided the bodywork into contrasting upper and lower metallic brown shades, giving it one of the most distinctive colour identities in the Supercabrio range. A 1986 build date places this car among the last Supercabrio variants to leave the Bertone facility, as production wound down around 1986–1987. Fiat used these named editions to sustain commercial interest in the hand-finished convertible through its final years.

MITICA's Resin Construction at 1:18

MITICA is an Italian manufacturer that specialises in 1:18 resin replicas of rare and coachbuilt Italian automobiles — the segment where diecast tooling costs make production commercially unviable for mainstream makers. Resin construction at 1:18 allows a surface and interior fidelity that diecast cannot match at this scale. The model measures approximately 21.5 cm in length, calculated directly from the 3,920 mm real-car figure divided by 18. This specific 'Palinuro' two-tone metallic brown combination is listed as ' ' — available exclusively through Vroomi.

In the Display Cabinet

At 21.5 cm, the Supercabrio sits comfortably alongside other Italian open-top road cars of the same period at 1:18: the Alfa Romeo Spider Series 3 and the Fiat X1/9 by Bertone are natural companions, sharing both the coachbuilder's lineage and the collector demographic. For anyone building a 1980s Italian road-car collection in resin at 1:18, the 'Palinuro' fills a gap that no other currently available model addresses — a coachbuilt Bertone convertible in a retailer-exclusive two-tone finish from the final production year.