Fiat Model History

Italy · founded 1899

Italy's iconic mass-market automaker — founded in Turin in 1899, home of the original Nuova 500, and builder of some of the most influential small cars in automotive history.

Models

500 (Nuova)

The Nuova 500 — Fiat's tiny, rear-engined city car that motorized postwar Italy and became a design icon.

City car · 1957–1975
600

Fiat's first postwar mass-market car — a rear-engined four-seater that set the template for Italian motoring in the 1950s.

Subcompact car · 1955–1969
128

The 1970 European Car of the Year — the compact that pioneered the transverse front-engine/FWD layout adopted by virtually every mainstream manufacturer.

Compact car · 1969–1985
127

The 1972 European Car of the Year — the car widely credited with defining the modern supermini and the front-wheel-drive hatchback formula.

Subcompact car · 1971–1983
124 Sport Spider

A Pininfarina-designed roadster built on the Fiat 124 platform — nearly 200,000 produced, 75% for the US market.

Sports car · 1966–1985
X1/9

A Bertone-designed mid-engined targa sports car — the first Fiat designed from the outset to meet US safety regulations.

Sports car · 1972–1989
Panda

Fiat's durable, utilitarian city car — a Giugiaro design icon that's been in continuous production since 1980.

City car · 1980–present
Uno

The 1984 European Car of the Year — a Giugiaro-penned supermini that became one of the eight most-produced car platforms in history.

Subcompact car · 1983–1995
Punto

The 1995 European Car of the Year — Fiat's successor supermini to the Uno, sold for 25 years and nearly nine million units.

Subcompact car · 1993–2018
500 (modern)

The retro-revival 500 — a 2008 European Car of the Year that reinvented Fiat's icon as a modern, customisable city car.

City car · 2007–present
500e (electric)

Fiat's purpose-built electric 500 — a new platform (not a conversion) launched in Europe in 2020, returning to the US for 2024.

City car · 2020–present
500L

A larger, family-focused 500-styled MPV — sold in the US from 2014 through 2020 before being discontinued.

Compact MPV · 2012–2022
500X

Fiat's 500-branded subcompact crossover — the brand's US volume model from 2016 until its North American discontinuation after 2023.

Subcompact SUV · 2014–present
124 Spider

The modern revival of the 124 Spider nameplate — a turbocharged Mazda MX-5–based roadster sold in the US for 2017–2020.

Sports car · 2016–2020

Other makes