The Fiat 850 (''Tipo 100G'') is a small

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car manufactured and marketed by Italian car manufacturer

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from 1964 to 1973.

History

Overview

Its technical design was an evolution of the successful

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. 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 was a follow on of model designations for the 600 which ran from A to F). The

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of the 850 was based on that of the Fiat 600, but had its capacity increased to 843 cc. The 850 came in two versions: "normale" (standard) with and engine code 100G.000 and "super" with and engine code 100G.002. The maximum speed was approximately . 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 sharing core technical components: * ''Fiat 850 Special'' — Revised version of the 850 sedan, launched in 1968. It shared the engine of the 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. Engine code 100GB.000. * ''Fiat 850 Familiare'' — The Familiare was a boxier and slightly larger successor to the Fiat 600 Multipla with a significantly squared-off rear featuring a rear hatch which made it a true van. It featured space for seven passengers in three rows, suitable for groups including children and thin adults, but is too small to accommodate seven typical adults in comfort. :The 850 Familiare continued in production till 1976 long after the saloon version of the 850 had been replaced by the

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. 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 axle): the 900T benefited from significant enhancements in 1980, being now renamed 900E. At least in the UK the 900 series camper vans were badged as FIAT Amigo. Production stopped in 1985. * ''Fiat 850 Coupé'' — The Coupé was introduced in 1965 at the

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and had the original engine producing . The maximum speed at that time was . Engine code 100GC.000. * ''Fiat 850 Spider'' — At the same time as the Coupé, Fiat also introduced the

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sporty two-seater ''Spider'', with the original 843 cc engine tuned to produce which allowed it to reach a top speed of . The body was designed and built by

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in its

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plant. The folding fabric roof stowed under a rear metal body panel. The Bertone design featured smooth, simple lines and details, including recessed headlamps equipped with plexiglass covers angled to match the adjacent fenders/wings — and dihedral side panels similar to Bertone's 1963

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. The Spider's engine code was 100GS.000. At the time of their introduction into the United States the Sedan, Coupé and Spider were marketed with a reduced capacity, high compression engine in order to beat US emissions regulations at the time which applied only to engines equal to or larger than 50 cubic inches. Compression was raised from 8.8:1 to 9.2:1, requiring premium octane fuel. 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 front drum brakes were replaced with disc brakes, although drum brakes remained on the rear wheels. In 1968, Fiat revised the successful Spider and Coupé again and gave them an even stronger engine with 903 cc and . They were called Sport Spider (engine code 100GBS.000) and Sport Coupé (engine code 100GBC.000). The Sport Spider body stayed essentially the same, but with a restyled front. The headlamps were moved forward slightly and the glass covers were eliminated giving the car a "frog-eye" look, and the original flush front turn indicators were replaced with units hung below the bumper. Several limited special edition versions of the Spider were offered, including the Racer featuring a body-colored metal hard top and the Racer Berlinetta featuring a black vinyl hard top. There was a minivan and transporter model as a successor of the world's first minivan, ''

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'', which was later renamed to ''900T'' and likewise received the larger capacity of 903 cc. The 850 Super was also license-built by NSU-Fiat in

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, Germany, who sold it as the "Neckar Adria." In 1968, NSU-Fiat changed to the more powerful 850 Special. Between June 1965 and September 1969, 6,619 Adrias were assembled in Germany. The establishment of the

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had gradually decreased Germany's protective tariffs, from 90 peercent in 1957 to none at all from July 1968, and thus there was no longer any reason to assemble Fiats in Heilbronn. Production of the Coupés ended in 1971, of the sedan in 1972, and of the Spiders in 1973, after altogether nearly 2.3 million models were sold worldwide, 140,000 of which were Spiders. Under the name

SEAT 850 The SEAT 850 was a car launched in 1966, based upon the Fiat 850. Originally only available with the same 2-door sedan body as used in Italy, two different 4-door versions also appeared in 1967. The very rare ''corto'' (short) used the bodywork de ...

, it was however further produced for some years in

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, also in a four-door variant. As a successor the

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. Between 1978 and 1983, the U.S. government issued a highly unusual recall for the Fiat 850—going back 10 years—for rust problems. In 1967, ''Road & Track'' called the Fiat 850 coupé "one of the handsomest, best-balanced designs ever seen on a small car." File:1965 Fiat 850 pic2.JPG, 1965 Fiat 850 Sedan File:Neckar 850 Adria, 1966.jpg, 1966 Neckar Adria; this car mainly differed in terms of badging File:Fiat 850 Coupé Front (2013-09-15 Spu).JPG, Fiat 850 Coupé, series I File:Fiat 850 Coupé, Schaffen Diest Fly-Drive 2013.JPG, Fiat 850 Coupé, series II File:Fiat 850 Spider (16.06.2007).jpg, Fiat 850 Spider File:Fiat 850 Racer Berlinetta at Schaffen-Diest (2017).jpg, Fiat 850 Racer Berlinetta File:Fiat 850 Bus di Trieste.JPG, Fiat 850 Familiare File:Fiat 850 T licence BX-82-GT pic 3.JPG, Fiat 850T

Non-Fiat derivatives

SEAT 850

Spanish manufacturer

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also built the 850 into the 1970s. They also offered a four-door saloon derivative in two different iterations. The Fiat 850 was also produced under the name

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, on the basis of

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(CKD) kits between 1967 and 1971.

Abarth

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Fiat Abarth 1000 (850 body) (15620359547)

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produced several tuned versions of the Berlina, Coupé, and Spider, with ever-increasing displacements. These belonged to the OT series of Abarth cars—standing for ''Omologata Turismo'' or "touring

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", which also included two-seater

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s. * Fiat-Abarth OT 850 Berlina (model 101): Abarth's first 850 derivative, introduced in July 1964. Its ''Tipo 201'' engine was the regular saloon's 847 cc inline-four brought from ; top speed went up accordingly from to . The OT 850 could be distinguished from the standard Fiat model by its Abarth badging, an asymmetric front ornament with the Abarth shield on the right hand side and the "Fiat Abarth" script on a red field on the left, and wheels with cooling slots. From October of the same year it became available in two guises: OT 850 ''Oltre 130'' ("Over 130"), almost unchanged from the initial model, and OT 850 ''Oltre 150'', with a engine, front

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s and a top speed. * Fiat-Abarth OT 1000 Berlina: introduced in October 1964. Engine displacement increased to 982 cc, it produced {{{cvt, 61, hp-metric, kW, 0 and {{convert, 58, lbft, Nm, 0, abbr=on, disp=flip of torque. Front brakes were changed to disks. * Fiat-Abarth OT 1000 Coupé and Spider: introduced in October 1965. Compared with the saloon version, the engine was a more powerful ''Tipo 202'' producing {{cvt, 62, hp-metric, kW, 0 and {{convert, 58, lbft, Nm, 0, abbr=on, disp=flip of torque. Top speed was {{convert, 155, km/h, mph, 0, abbr=on for the coupé and {{convert, 160, km/h, mph, 0, abbr=on for the spider. The coupé was facelifted in November 1968 concurrently with the regular Fiat 850 Coupé, receiving a full-width grille and twin round tail lamps. * Fiat-Abarth OTR 1000 Coupe: launched alongside the OT 1000 Coupé, and based on the 850 Coupé bodyshell as well. Its type 200 engine had an all-new Abarth-designed

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with valves arranged in a V instead of parallel—hence the R in the name, standing for Radiale, radial. The

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s were shaped as two

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s, one around each valve; there was an inlet duct per cylinder, each fed by one choke of the two twin

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carburettors. Abarth claimed an output of {{cvt, 75, hp-metric, kW, 0 at 6500 rpm and a top speed of {{convert, 172, km/h, mph, 0, abbr=on for the road version. The OTR was set apart from the OT 1000 Coupé by a rectangular front grille bearing the Abarth badge, needed for the front-mounted radiator. :At the 1965

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showed on its stand a

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OTR 1000

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, based on the 850 Spider but with a fixed roof and a front radiator opening. Suffering the competition of less expensive and less complex OT models, production of the OTR 1000 ended with the arrival of the restyled 850 Coupé in 1968. * Fiat-Abarth OTS 1000 Coupe: introduced in April 1966. OTR 1000 bodyshell, but standard head OT 1000 engine with output upped to {{cvt, 68, hp-metric, kW, 0 and top speed to {{convert, 160, km/h, mph, 0, abbr=on.

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homologated it in the GT class in 1966. Abarth later developed several modifications, including a new inlet manifold for two twin-choke Solex carburettors. This gave birth to the OTSS 1000 or OT 1000 SS. Both OTS and OTSS were restyled in November 1968 like the OT 1000. * Fiat-Abarth OT 1300 Coupe: November 1966 launch. Visually identical to the OTR 1000 save for the widened 5½-inch wheels, it used a bored out

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displacing 1280 cc. The car also received a different

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and sharper cams, raising engine power to {{cvt, 75, hp-metric, kW, 0 at 6000 rpm.{{cite magazine , magazine = Autorevue , title = Rij-impressie: Fiat Abarth 1300 , page = 715 , date = 1967-09-22 , volume = 18 , number = 19 , language = nl Claimed top speed is {{convert, 172, km/h, mph, 0, abbr=on, the same as for the equally powerful OTR 1000, but thanks to the simpler engine the car was cheaper and more pliable as an everyday drive. Restyled in 1968 together with the 1.0-litre OTs. * Fiat-Abarth OT 1600 Berlina (model 136/C): an extreme variant based on the 850 saloon body, unveiled at the October 1964

. It was fitted with a ''Tipo 236'' 1592 cc

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engine from the Fiat-Abarth 1600 Sport racing car. The 1.6-litre put out {{cvt, 155, hp-metric, kW, 0 and top speed was {{convert, 220, km/h, mph, 0, abbr=on. The rear wings were greatly enlarged to clear wide rear

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s. Four examples were produced, all in beige color with red stripes. * Fiat-Abarth OT 2000 Berlina Mostra because of the OT 1600's good reception from the automotive press,

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decided to create an even more extreme variant based on the 850 saloon body. One of the four OT 1600 was stripped down, painted white with red stripes and equipped with the 1946 cc engine from a 1965 Simca Abarth 2000 GT Corsa. Mostra means "display" in Italian. Its 2.0-liter twin-cam four-cylinder produced {{cvt, 209, hp-metric, kW, 0 and made for a claimed maximum speed of {{convert, 252, km/h, mph, 0, abbr=on. The rear badging on the car read "OT Fiat Abarth 2mila", two thousand. Fiat didn't give a green light for the OT 1600 nor the OT Mostra, so both projects were stillborn. * Fiat-Abarth OT 2000 Coupé America: introduced in February 1966, it was based on the 850 Coupé but powered by a two-litre engine.{{cite book , title=The Observer's Book of Automobiles , edition=thirteenth , year=1967 , page=27 It differed visually from the 850 Coupé in having a barred grill between the headlights, a split front bumper flanking a spare wheel which projected forward below the grille, widened front and rear tracks and wings, and a vented front bonnet. The 1946 cc twin cam four-cylinder produced {{cvt, 185, hp-metric, kW, 0 and could propel the car to {{convert, 240, km/h, mph, 0, abbr=on. Three examples were produced. {{clear

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Italian

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designed and built a small

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with

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coupé body based on the 850, the 1968 Francis Lombardi Grand Prix. The car was also marketed by OTAS as the OTAS 820, equipped with

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engines, and in an Abarth version, the Abarth Scorpione. {{clear

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The Michelotti Shellette was a beach car based on the 850, styled and built by

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. Designed in the mould of

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-based "Jolly", it was a more useful proposition, being faster and better equipped. Only about 80 were built, with some of the early ones using

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underpinnings. The Shellette had the more powerful {{convert, 47, PS, kW, abbr=on engine of the Special/Coupé.{{citation , url=http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21153/lot/361/ , title = Lot 361: 1969 Fiat Michelotti Shellette Beach Car , work=Greenwich Concours d'Elegance: Collectors' Motorcars and Automobilia , publisher=Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers , type=auction catalogue , publication-place=New York, NY , pages=160–161 , date=2013-06-02 {{clear

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1968 Siata 850 Spring, Dutch licence registration 95-14-GE

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on the basis of the 850. Introduced in 1967, it featured retro styling with a mock upright radiator grille, separate

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s and headlights, and

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s. In Italy it was initially priced at 795,000 Lire, {{#expr:1050−795round1 thousand Lire cheaper than Fiat's Bertone 850 Spider.{{cite news , url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,9/articleid,1540_02_1967_0131_0009_23387918/ , title=Caratteristiche degli spider italiani , date=4 June 1967 , page=9 , newspaper=

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, access-date=4 March 2015 Top speed was {{convert, 125, km/h, mph, 0, abbr=on. {{clear

References

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