[EN] Information about an old FIAT AUTO NEDERLAND contest

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Hello all,

I apologize to users and moderators for writing this in english. I hope it's not an issue.

I'm writing you from Italy, and I'm trying to get information about a prize contest that FIAT AUTO NEDERLAND allegedly held in 1993.

The contest was posted on a "car-related weekly magazine" (unfortunately I don't know which, but understand that AUTOWEEK is the only weekly car related magazine in the country) and asked readers to propose a 'sale slogan' for an upcoming model of FIAT to be released (since it happened in 1993, it may have been the COUPÉ or the BRAVO/BRAVA which came out in 1994 and 1995). Readers were supposed to write the slogan, cut the page with the contest and send it via mail.

I'm trying to rebuild the story behind it, and I was hoping you may have some knowledge to share, more specifically in relation to the terms of this contest and maybe the magazine it was publicized on. Any information would be super appreciated.

The only source I have is a participant to said contest (unable to recall further details about it) who earnt a very peculiar item as third place: a promotional Nintendo GameBoy branded with the FIAT logo, as per the image attached.

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Sorry for the long message, and thanks in advance for your time and availability.
 
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I found this contest from 1993 but this was Daihatsu. So it isn't Fiat.
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Have to look further - do you have any clue of the time of the year?
It's quite an exciting search, going through this I discovered the introduction of the Renault Twingo I, spy pictures of the Fiat Uno successor - convertible, for example! Will (have to) spend more time on this, could be fun!
 
Joost Boers zei:
I found this contest from 1993 but this was Daihatsu. So it isn't Fiat.
X1umTn0.jpeg

Have to look further - do you have any clue of the time of the year?
It's quite an exciting search, going through this I discovered the introduction of the Renault Twingo I, spy pictures of the Fiat Uno successor - convertible, for example! Will (have to) spend more time on this, could be fun!
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Thanks for all the effort and passion you're putting into this, it's very appreciated.

I'm also investigating on different sides and think that the year referred by the source may be incorrect, but this could also help narrowing down the reaserch.

The mentioned prize GameBoy is black, with the onprinted FIAT logo on it. There are very rare photos of units online.

The color is relevant because, when it was released in 1989, grey was the only available color, even for "special" editions. Then, on March 1995, Nintendo released a range of the very same Gameboy, but in different colors (including black). So, as the source was very sure about the contest being for a slogan for the upcoming FIAT BRAVO, my guess is that they may've mistaken the year, and that the contest may've occurred in 1995 instead of 1993, between the release of the previously unavailable black gameboy (March) and the market launch of the Fiat Bravo (September and onwards).
 
I'll have a look in a dull moment when I like to have some brain distraction ;-) Thanks for the additional specification.
 
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