Fiat 1100

The Fiat 1100 was a small family car produced from 1953 until 1969 by the Italian manufacturer Fiat. It was an all-new unibody replacement for the Fiat 1100 E, which descended from the pre-war, body-on-frame Fiat 508 C Balilla 1100, and it was changed steadily until the Fiat 128 replaced it in 1969. Light commercial versions, later called the Fiat 1100T, stayed in production until 1971, and Premier Automobiles kept building the 1100 D in India until the end of 2000. Known by its project number as the Fiat Nuova 1100 or 1100/103, it was introduced at the April 1953 Geneva Motor Show with a modern four-door saloon pontoon body, a style pioneered in Fiat's range by the 1950 1400. Its 1,089 cc overhead-valve four-cylinder engine, fed by a single downdraught carburettor, put out 36 PS and had debuted in 1937. A two-seater 1100/103 TV Trasformabile roadster followed in March 1955.