A collection of Italian themed marketing campaigns to make you cringe.

What do you think – unfairly perpetuating Italian stereotypes or cleverly playing on what some view as Italy’s charm?

The bellissimo reputation of Italian automaker Fiat… proven valid.

“F.I.A.T. = Fix it again, Tony,” was my uncle’s response to the story I’m about to tell. I was pretty sure that phrase was born out of some sort of prejudice against Italian-American immigrants back in the day (which would be funny since my uncle was one), so I went to check on it before…