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The FIAT brand’s “little mouse” - the Topolino - is seeing a big response from U.S. customers. Many dealers have sold out of initial 2026 model-year allocations, so the brand has introduced the 2027 Fiat Topolino. The new "little mouse" is featuring two new colors, Corallo Orange and Luna Greige, and a new full-color digital cluster. In addition, a new body style debuts in the U.S., the Topolino Open Air, bringing a soft-top rollback roof to the two-door model.

The 2027 Topolino was celebrated on the opening day of the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show last Thursday evening, with an event onboard a Sanlorenzo SX100 yacht. FIAT unveiled a special one-of-its-kind Fiat Topolino designed in collaboration with Sanlorenzo, the leading Italian yacht maker renowned for its distinctive approach to design. The special Topolino (in White, below) features a unique interior inspired by Sanlorenzo’s signature styling and use of natural materials and premium textiles across the seats, dashboard and sunroof. Custom seat belts, genuine natural leather accents and natural nautical-grade wood flooring are inspired by the beautiful teak decks of Sanlorenzo yachts.

Things to know about the "little mouse":

It is a streets-legal low-speed vehicle (LSV) designed for neighborhood and lifestyle. The Topolino MSRP is $13,995 (not including destination fee), which includes a complimentary home delivery within a 50-mile radius from the purchasing dealer. Editor's Note: Too bad FIAT isn't offering the special edition as a package. -WG

Editor-in-Chief's Note: This week, our video features a very interesting interview with Jim Hall as he talks about the greatest five drivers he ever witnessed. Watch it here. -PMD

The AE Song of the Week:

Baby (whoo-hoo), where the hell is my husband? (Whoo-hoo)
What is taking him so long (whoo-hoo) to find me?
Oh, baby, where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another? (Whoo-hoo, yeah)
Tell him if you see him, baby, if you see him
Tell him, tell him he should holler

Why is this beautiful man waiting for me to get old?
Why he already testing my patience?
I only fear he's taking time with other women that ain't me
While I've been reviewing applications

Wait 'til I get my hands on him, I'ma tell him off too
For how long he kept mе waiting, anticipating
Praying to the Lord to give him to my loving arms
And despite my frustrations

He must need me (he must need me) completely (completely)
How my heart yearns for him
Is he far away (is he far away?), is he okay? (Is he okay?)
This man is testing me, uh-huh, uh-huh
Uh, help me, help me, help me, Lord
I need you to tell me

I'm doing lonely acrobatics, unzipping my dress at 2 a.m.
And I'm tired of living like this
He must be out there getting ready, tryna fix up his tie
Uh, huh-huh, uh, hello? This where your wife is

Wait 'til I get your heart going, I'ma turn it up too
For how much I'm 'bout to love ya, no one above ya
Praying to the Lord to hurry, hurry you along
Baby, I intend to rush ya

T-t-t-tell him I'm, tell him I'm, mm-mm-mm
Tell him I'm kind, tell him I'm 5'5"
Tell him I got brown eyes and a growing fear
That if he doesn't find me now, I'm gonna die alone, so can he
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, hurry up here, sir?
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, huh
I want it, want it, want it, want it, want it

I would like a ring, I would like a ring
I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger
I would like a big and shiny diamond
That I could wave around and talk and talk about it
And when the day is here, forgive me, God, that I could ever doubt it

Until death, I do, I do, I do, I -
Is he about it, 'bout it, 'bout it?
This man is testing me, uh-huh, uh-huh
Uh, help me, help me, help me, Lord
I need you to tell me

Baby (whoo-hoo), where the hell is my husband? (Whoo-hoo)
What is taking him so long (whoo-hoo) to find me?
Oh, baby, where the hell is my lover?
Getting down with another? (Whoo-hoo, yeah)
Tell him that my grandma said it, tell him grandma said it
"Your husband is coming"

I would like a ring, I would like a ring
I would like a diamond ring on my wedding finger
I would like a big and shiny (ooh) diamond (yes), diamond (yes)
Diamond (yes), diamond (yes), diamond (yes), oh
Where is my husband? (Ah)

"Where Is My Husband!" by Raye, from the album "This Music May Contain Hope" (2025).* Written by Rachel Agatha Keen and Michael Harris Sabath. "Where Is My Husband!" lyrics © Warner Chappell Music Ltd. Source: Musixmatch. Watch the Original Music Video here.

*"Where Is My Husband!" is a brassy number that sees Raye searching for her life partner. Clearly tired of scrolling, swiping, and sighing, she laments her single status and beseeches the Lord to hurry her soulmate along. Over jaunty horns and jazzy drums, Raye reels off her particulars like a personals ad: "Tell him I'm 5'5", tell him I got brown eyes." As the song progresses, the search grows more manic, as she asks the pressing question: "What is taking him so long to find me?" The track culminates with Raye's grandmother, Agatha Dawson-Amoah, delivering the reassuring message, "Your husband is coming."

The track comes from a long stretch of singledom for Raye, haunted by the fallout of a devastating breakup years earlier. That heartbreak, so central to her 2023 album "My 21st Century Blues," reshaped what Raye wants in a man. "It took me three, four years to get over him. Like, I can't allow myself to fall in love again until it's safe," Raye told Vogue. "I need to know you could never hurt me like that."

"I'm an old-fashioned girlie," she continued. "Is it too much to ask that I'm sat at a bar one day and you walk up to me, and we look into each other's eyes and you order me a negroni, and we get talking and you love jazz music and you're intelligent and you're telling me a quote about something and I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'm moved?"

Raye wrote and produced "Where Is My Husband!" with Mike Sabath, who contributed to much of her 2023 debut, "My 21st Century Blues."

Raye premiered "Where Is My Husband!" as the opening number of her Glastonbury Festival set on June 28, 2025, where she was accompanied by a brass band. She subsequently performed the song at All Points East and the Montreux Jazz Festival, with each performance building anticipation for the single release on September 19, 2025.

"Where Is My Husband" had a rocky start, as the pressure of following up her 2023 "21st Century Blues" album left Raye feeling hyper-critical of her own writing. "When you haven't written for a long time, you start hating everything you come up with," she told the BBC. To reset, she and producer Mike Sabbath took a day off, walking in the woods and talking about life instead of working. The chorus came to her the very next day. "It was so exciting," Raye said, and from there they just chipped away at the rest of the track.

They worked on "Where Is My Husband" right up to the wire, handing in the final mix just eight days before it had to be pressed to vinyl. (Knowledge courtesy of Songfacts.com)

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