Fiat 520

The Fiat 520 is the name of two different Fiat models produced during the 1920s. The first, the 520 Superfiat of 1921 to 1923, was Fiat's first entrant in the luxury car market, with a V12 engine of 6,805 cc that produced an estimated 90 bhp, and for several years in the early 1920s it was the only car in the world offered with a V12. The second, built from 1927 to 1930, was Fiat's upper middle-class model of the later 1920s, smaller and more modestly powered than its namesake and powered by a six-cylinder engine. The 1927 car was one of the first to place the steering wheel on the left side, as Italy settled on driving on the right and more of the increasing traffic made a clear convention necessary. The 520 was replaced by the Fiat 521 in 1928, although it seems to have stayed in production until 1929, by which time more than 20,000 six-cylinder 520s had been made.