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Modesty in top form - Fiat 600 in the (historic) test

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Created on April 1, 1955

Reading time 11min

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Motor-Rundschau

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Fiat 600 (1956) - idyllisch dargestellt

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Fiat 600 (1956) - am Strand

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Fiat 600 (1956) - herrlich in Szene gesetzt

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Fiat 600 (1960) - ein Vierplätzer auf minimaler Grundfläche

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Fiat 600 (1956) - Platz für vier Personen

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Fiat 600 (1956) - genügend Transporkapazität

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Fiat 600 (1956) - er gefällt

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Fiat 600 (1956) - auch vor einer Villa standesgemäss

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Fiat 600 (1956) - da macht Mann Eindruck

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Fiat 600 Multipla Taxi (1956) - guter Zugang auch für die Fond-Passagiere

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Fiat 600 Multipla Taxi (1956) - dank viel Platz perfekt als Taxi geeignet

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Fiat 600 (1955) - Wenn man einen Testwagen aus solch zarten Händen übernimmt...

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Fiat 600 (1955) - Vorder- und Hinterradufhängungen

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Fiat 600 (1955) - Röntgenzeichnung

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Fiat 600 (1955) - Ein Prachtsstück an Präzisionsarbeit

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Fiat 600 Ghia (1955) - Spezialkarosserie von Ghia Turin - Genfer Automobilsalon 1955

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Fiat 600 (1956) - nun auch mit Faltdach - Genfer Autosalon 1956

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Summary

With the 600, Fiat unceremoniously created a new vehicle class. Although unceremoniously is probably the wrong term, because the Turin-based company worked hard to develop it. The result was a vehicle that combined performance and economy and was as sophisticated and well thought-out as few other cars at the time. This historical test report by Motor-Rundschau describes the qualities of the Italian.

This article contains the following chapters

Sophisticated and well thought out
Combining performance and economy
Rating
Test

Estimated reading time: 11min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Several years ago, the Turin plant assigned the following task to not just one but several teams of designers, test and development engineers for the international market that was to be opened up for the successor to the "Topolino" (officially known as the Fiat "500"): A small car with the lowest possible garage and traffic space requirements, with four still sufficient seats, with not too great a design effort that would allow profitable large-scale production, with sufficient road and mountain performance and with the lowest possible running costs (fuel, tax, insurance). Everything was initially open: 400, 500, 600 or 700 cc, two-stroke or four-stroke, water or air cooling, front or rear-wheel drive, frame with plastic bodywork or self-supporting all-steel bodywork ...

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