Fiat 126

The Fiat 126 was a rear-engined city car that Fiat introduced at the Turin Auto Show in October 1972 and sold until 2000 over a single generation. It replaced the Fiat 500, keeping its wheelbase and much of its mechanical layout under a slightly larger body drawn by Sergio Sartorelli, and it seated four. The engine grew from 594 cc to 652 cc in 1977, and the 126 Bis later added a hatchback and a water-cooled 704 cc flat-twin. About 4.7 million were built in total, most of them at Tychy and Bielsko-Biala in Poland as the Polski Fiat 126p, which became a people's car and a cultural icon nicknamed Maluch, the little one. Fiat stopped marketing it in 1993 in favour of the front-engined Cinquecento, and Autocar counted its 28-year run as the twenty-sixth longest of any single-generation car.