Fiat Ritmo - a little different from the others
09/28/2012
When Fiat presented the Ritmo in 1978, it did not look like the other cars. The design was created internally at Fiat, with Gian Paolo Boano, the son of Mario Felice Boano, in charge. The asymmetrical front was unusual. The hood had an equally asymmetrical air intake and the wheel rims did not conform to the usual design. The bumpers were raised high at the front and rear and integrated into the body design.
However, the first drawings still looked very different and much more conventional than the finished model.
But the name was also new, as earlier models had usually only had numbers. The Ritmo would probably have been called 138, at least the project number was X1/38.
Prototypes had been spotted long before the launch.
It was finally built until 1988, although it had to give up some of its special features in the course of the production run, e.g. the front was adapted more to the public's taste in 1982. Instead, there were particularly fast (125 TC) and open versions (convertible with roll bar based on the Golf convertible).
Today, you hardly ever see an early Ritmo with the two googly eyes, even though the first ones are already vintage cars.
