Fiat 850
Manufacturer	Fiat
Production	1964-1973
Successor	Fiat 127
Body style(s)	coupe/sedan spider station wagon van
Layout	RR layout
Engine(s)	817 cc straight-4 843 cc straight-4 903 cc straight-4
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Curb weight	670 kg (1477 lb)
Related	SEAT 850 SEAT/Fiat 133

The Fiat 850 is a small rear-engined rear wheel drive car in the tradition of the Renault Dauphine. Curb weight is the total Weight of a Vehicle with standard equipment all necessary operating Consumables (e The SEAT 850 was a car based upon the Fiat 850. It had 2 and 4-door versions The SEAT 133 was a small rear-engine car designed and sold by SEAT in Spain from 1974 to 1979 In Automobile design, a rear-engine design layout places the Engine at the rear of the vehicle The Renault Dauphine is an Automobile produced by French manufacturer Renault from 1956 to 1967 It was produced between 1964 and 1973.

Overview

Its technical design was an evolution of the very successful Fiat 600. "600" can also refer to the later Fiat Seicento The Fiat 600 (or "Seicento" is a City car produced by the Italian The internal name for the Fiat 600 development project was "Project 100" and consequently, the internal Fiat codename for the 850 project was 100G (G for the Italian word Grande - big). The engine of the 850 was based on that of the Fiat 600, but had its capacity increased to 843 cc. An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input The 850 came in two versions: "normale" (standard) with 34 hp (25 kW) and "super" with 37 hp (28 kW). The maximum speed was approximately 125 km/h (78 mph). While it was not a large step forward in technical development, it possessed a certain charm with its large rolling eyes and its short tail, in which the engine sat.

Variants

The 850 family included several body styles with similar technical components underneath. Cars can come in a large variety of different body styles. Some are still in production while others are of historical interest only

• Fiat 850 Special

Revised version of the 850 sedan, launched in 1968. It shared the 47 hp (35 kW) engine of 850 Coupé, and offered front disc brakes, sport steering wheel and improved trim. With a 25 percent increase in power, plus disc brakes nestled behind 13" wheels, it was a "sport sedan" in the vein of the BMW 2002, albeit on a smaller scale.

• Fiat 850 Familiare

The Familiare was a boxier and slightly larger heir to the Fiat 600 Multipla. It featured space for seven passenger in three rows which made it suitable for groups including children and thin adults. It was too small to accommodate in comfort seven large adults.

The 850 Familiare continued in production till 1976 long after the saloon version of the saloon had been replaced by the Fiat 127. The Fiat 127 is a supermini produced by the Italian automaker Fiat between 1971 and 1983 In 1976 the Fiat 900T was introduced, retaining most of the body panels of the 850 Familiare, but featuring the 903 cc engine from the Fiat 127 (although, in this application, still mounted behind the rear axel): the 900T benefitted from significant enhancements in 1980, being now renamed 900E. Production finally ended in 1985.

• Fiat 850 Coupé/Sedan

The Coupé was introduced for the first time 1965 on the Geneva Motor Show and had the original 843 cc engine tuned to produce 47 hp (35 kW). The International Geneva Motor Show (Salon International de l'Auto is an annual Auto show held in March in the Swiss city of Geneva. The maximum speed at that time was 135 km/h (84 mph).

• Fiat 850 Spider

At the same time as the Coupé/Sedan, Fiat also introduced the convertible sporty two-seater Spider, with the original 843 cc engine tuned to produce 49 hp (37 kW) which allowed it to reach a top speed of 145 km/h (90 mph) . A convertible is a type of automobile in which the vehicle's roof can retract and fold away converting it from an enclosed to an open-air vehicle The body was designed and built by Bertone. Gruppo Bertone is an Italian car styling and coachbuilding house which also manufactures cars The folding roof section made of fabric could be stowed away completely under a rear flap. The Bertone design also featured smooth, essential lines and simple yet elegant details, such as the headlamps tilted to follow the lines of the wings, and the dihedral side panels inspired by Bertone's 1963 Corvair Testudo.

• Abarth 1600 OT

An Abarth version of the Fiat 850 was made. Even thougth the Abarth O. T 1600 had the same body as the Fiat 850, they had only a few things on common. The O. T 1600 featured a 4cylinder 1592 cc DOHC engine and either a 4 speed manual or close-ratio 6 speed manual gearbox. The fuel was delivered by two double Weber 45 mm carburettors. The engine was still in the rear, but was now putting out 155 hp (116 kW) and 144. 3 N·m (106 ft·lbf) at 7600 rpm, but the red-line was at a staggering 9000 rpm.

The body had been reinforced to cope with the dramatic power increase. The fenders had been made bigger to cope with extend wheel gauge and bigger tires which was mounted on lightweight rims. The suspension had been toughened to handle the extra power and increase handling performance. To make sure that the Abarth O. T 1600 could stop again, it now featured disc-brakes on all wheels. Furthermore the interior had been updated with i. e. racing seats.

But taking a family car and tripling the power can give some issues. The huge engine could easily overheat when doing urban driving. Under heavy breaking and in windy conditions the car could also tend to be unstable. The noise from the engine also made it impossible to have conversation. Due to the location of the engine and the bigger tires at the back, the car could tend under steer.

Data:

• Engine layout: RR layout
• Drive: Rear wheel drive
• Compression ratio: 9,5:1
• Engine data: DOHC 4 cylinder 8V
• Weight: 790 kg (1742 lb)

Performance:

• 0-100: 7,2 sec
• Top speed: 211 km/h (131 mph)
• 1/4 mile: 15,4 sec

Note: At the time of their introduction into the United States, the Sedan, Coupé, and Spider were marketed with a reduced capacity, high compression (raised from 8. In Automotive design, a RR, or Rear-engine, Rear-wheel drive layout is one which places both the engine and drive wheels at the rear 8:1 to [9. 2/9. 3/9. 5:1?] requiring premium octane fuel) 817 cc / 49. 8 ci engine, in order to beat US emissions regulations at the time which applied only to engines equal to or larger than 50 cubic inches.

In order to separate the sportier variants Coupé and Spider from the basic version, apart from the increase of engine performance, the equipment was also extended and adapted to the higher expectations. Both received sport seats, a sport steering wheel and round speedometer; Spider even received a completely rearranged instrument panel. The previous drum brakes were replaced by better disc brakes.

In 1968, Fiat revised the successful Spider and Coupé again and gave them an even stronger engine with 903 cc and 52 hp (39 kW). Siata ( Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori) which in English is " Italian Society Car Transformations Accessories " was an Italian company founded They were called Sport Spider and Sport Coupé. The Sport Spider body stayed essentially the same, but with a restyled front. The headlamps were set into the wings and the turn indicators were set below the bumpers. The same year saw the launch of several special versions of the Spider: the vinyl-clad metal-roofed Racer, and the Berlinetta, a convertible with a removable hard-top. Today, they are considered classics.

There was a transporter model as a successor of the Fiat 600 Multipla, which was later renamed to 900T and likewise received the larger capacity of 903 cc. For the earlier Fiat 600-based Multipla produced between 1956 and 1965 see Fiat 600.

The production of the Coupés was stopped in 1971, of the sedan in 1972, and of the Spiders in 1973, after altogether nearly 2. 3 million models were sold world-wide. Under the name SEAT 850, it was however further produced for some years in Spain, also in a four-door variant. The SEAT 850 was a car based upon the Fiat 850. It had 2 and 4-door versions Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. As a successor the Fiat 127 was brought to the market in 1971 which combined the 903 cc push-rod OHV engine with the FIAT 128 transmission and suspension components in a fashionable fast- and later hatch-back 2-door sedan. The Fiat 127 is a supermini produced by the Italian automaker Fiat between 1971 and 1983

The Fiat 850 was also produced under the name Pirin-Fiat in Lovech, Bulgaria, on the basis of complete knock down (CKD) kits between 1967 and 1971. Pirin-Fiat was the trademark of several passenger automobiles produced in Lovech, Bulgaria, and the result of a collaboration between Fiat (an Italian Lovech (Ловеч is a town in north-central Bulgaria with a population of about 50000 The state of Bulgaria (България transliterated bg-Latn ''Balgaria'' The country preserves the traditions (in ethnic name language and alphabet of the First Bulgarian For other uses of the abbreviation see CKD Complete knock down (CKD, is a complete kit needed to assemble a vehicle

External links

• Fiat 850 & Siata Spring fan site with strips, documentation and collectors

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