I happened to glance inside a 2014 Fiat 500L earlier today, to see if any of the style of the original had been carried over (seemingly not).
Imagine my surprise though to find that the Allegro was ahead of its time and the Square Steering Wheel is back!
Perhaps our laughter back in the 1970's was misguided.....

(I didn't take a pic of the car I noticed, hence a pic of a similar interior sourced online)