Fiat 125 Sport

The Fiat 125 Sport was a sporting coupe built by Fiat's Argentine subsidiary Fiat Concord from 1972 to 1978. Fiat was the largest car maker in Argentina in the 1960s, with almost a quarter of the market, and Argentine buyers wanted sporting cars with more aggressive lines than the American subsidiaries offered. The design came from a coupe that Carrozzeria Vignale showed in 1963 on the Fiat 1300 and 1500 base, drawn by Giovanni Michelotti; Vignale built 125 of the first series and 30 of the second, and Fiat Concord licensed it in 1966. Fiat Italy never built or sold this model. When the Fiat 125 replaced the Fiat 1600 in 1972, the coupe took the new mechanics, the 1,608 cubic centimetre twin-cam Fiat 125 B engine of 100 DIN horsepower, and regained the original Vignale front. A stronger Potenciado version followed in 1975, the car was renamed 125 Sport SE 78 in 1977, and production stopped at the end of 1978.