Fiat 1400

The Fiat 1400 was a passenger car produced by the Italian automotive manufacturer Fiat from 1950 to 1958, sharing its body and platform with the upmarket Fiat 1900, built from 1952 to 1959, which had an enlarged 1.9 litre engine and more luxurious trim as the flagship of the range. The 1400 was Fiat's first all-new postwar model, its first unibody car and its first passenger car offered with a diesel engine, and it was the first passenger car produced by the Spanish maker SEAT and by the Yugoslav maker Zastava. It was introduced at the 1950 Geneva Motor Show, the diesel version with a 1900 cc engine appeared in 1953 as the 1400 Diesel, and the same year it entered production in Spain as the SEAT 1400. Steyr-Daimler-Puch built it in Austria as the Steyr 2000. The petrol-engined 1900 A of 1954 claimed 70 bhp and had a five-speed column-shifted gearbox. Its engine and transmission were also used in the Fiat 615 truck and the Fiat Campagnola.