Fiat 127 Sport - The eternal youth
Summary
When the Fiat 127 Sport 75 HP appeared in the fall of 1982, it was already an eleven-year-old discontinued model. But the Fiat 127 had never been better: faster, wilder and more entertaining than ever before, the 75 hp compact was able to skilfully disguise its age. After a ride on the little cannonball, it's not the Fiat, but the driver who has it in the back. This driving report presents the hottest of all 127s and shows it in many photos.
This article contains the following chapters
- Six years number one
- People's sport
- Modern plastic
- More displacement and power
- Gearbox that took some getting used to
- Hard rear end
- New? Logo. Uno - But better?
Estimated reading time: 7min
Preview (beginning of the article)
The saying that the best is always saved for last has become so hackneyed that you should be careful not to start a text with it. And yet it fits the Fiat 127 Sport 75 HP better than ever before. Because when the 75 hp top model appeared in 1982, the Fiat 127 was already an eleven-year-old discontinued model. In March 1971, the "big Gerneklein" made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show and sold extremely well right from the start. Pio Manzù's clear, no-frills yet attractive design was very much in tune with contemporary tastes. When Fiat added a version with a large tailgate a year later, it was also right on trend conceptually. In 1972, it became the European "Car of the Year"; from 1973 to 1978, the Fiat 127 was the best-selling car in Europe, before progress slowly began to overtake it.
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