Fiat 600

The Fiat 600, called Seicento in Italian, was a small rear-engined city car and economy family car made by the Italian carmaker Fiat from 1955 to 1969, offered as a two-door fastback sedan and as the four-door Multipla mini MPV. It is considered a pop icon of the Italian economic miracle, and the three-row Multipla is seen as one of the first mass-produced minivans. At just 3.22 metres long it was Fiat's first rear-engined car, codenamed Progetto 100, and it was priced at 590,000 lire. A total of 2,695,197 were produced at the Mirafiori plant in Turin between 1955 and 1969, the millionth in February 1961. It was also the blueprint for the smaller Nuova 500 of 1957 and the platform of the larger 850. Licensed versions were built as the SEAT 600 in Spain, the Fitito in Argentina and the Fica in Yugoslavia, and the Multipla used a 663 cc inline-four engine.