Fiat will unveil a new version of its Panda city car Wednesday, but a slowing economy could pose risks for the company's plan to revive its manufacturing in Italy.

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As part of this plan, it is repatriating production of the Panda, a small car, from Poland.

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So it will now be known as the New Panda, after the more basic mini car it replaces.

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But the church eventually found less sophisticated officials in Huizhou, near Hong Kong, and sold them the idea (one local dignitary at the time was under the impression that Panda was one of America's Big Four car makers, according to Eric Harwit, an expert on China's car industry at the University of Hawaii).

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