Fiat Fire engine: history, robot, car, how it was made, displacement, evolution

Late seventies, a difficult time for Italy. The decade began with the first major oil crisis of the winter of 1973-1974, which broke out following the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur war, then continued with terrorism, attacks, political scandals, strikes that paralyzed the country and our factories. There Fiatat the time still one of the large national industries with a decisive weight on the market and on the national economy, despite the objective difficulties of the sector was in the process of renewing its range. In 1972 he launched the 126 to replace the glorious 500, in 1974 the 131, at the Turin Motor Show it was the turn of the Rhythminnovative in style rather than in mechanics. What was needed, however, was also a new generation engine, called upon to replace the glorious 4-cylinder rod-and-rocker engine of the 100 seriesborn way back in 1955 for the 600 and then adopted, in its evolutions with displacement increased from the original 633 cc to 903 and even 1,050 cc, on a long series of models such as the Fiat 127 and the Autobianchi A112. Initially the result of a collaboration with Peugeot-Citroën, which ended in nothing for political and economic reasons, the new unit found its first application in 1985 on the equally revolutionary Autobianchi Y10, sold under the Lancia brand since 1989: for the new engine it was the beginning of a very long career, which has reached the threshold of the present day.