Fiat Seicento

The Fiat Seicento, Type 187, is a city car from the Italian company Fiat, introduced at the end of 1997 as the replacement for the Fiat Cinquecento on which it was also based. It kept the Cinquecento's engines, chassis and general dimensions and gained only 90 mm of length, for a total of 3,340 mm. Like the Cinquecento and the Polski Fiat 126 before it, it was built at Fiat's factory in Tychy, Poland. The name is the Italian word for 600, and the car is the spiritual successor to the Fiat 600, to whose 50th anniversary the rebadged 600 version was dedicated. Launch trims were the basic S with an 899 cc engine, the SX, and the Sporting with a 1,108 cc FIRE engine. A battery-electric Seicento Elettra was built until 2005. In Euro NCAP crash tests it earned a rating of only 1.5 stars.