Fiat Coupé

The Fiat Coupé, Type 175, officially also called Coupé Fiat, was a car that Fiat manufactured between 1993 and 2000. The two-door, four-seater coupé was introduced at the Bologna Motor Show in December 1993, with exterior design by Chris Bangle at Centro Stile Fiat and an interior by Pininfarina. Fiat chose to build a new coupé on the old Tipo platform after the Pininfarina factory fell idle when the Cadillac Allante project failed, and Bangle's design beat the Pininfarina proposal, which Peugeot later adopted as the 406 Coupé. At its January 1994 launch it had a four-cylinder 2.0 litre 16V engine in turbo and naturally aspirated versions, engines inherited from the Lancia Delta Integrale, and 1996 added a 1.8 litre and two five-cylinder 2.0 litre 20V engines. It had independent suspension all round and a Viscodrive limited-slip differential, and right-hand drive production began in 1995.