SEAT Ritmo

The SEAT Ritmo is a small family car produced by SEAT from 1979 to 1982, a Spanish version of the Fiat Ritmo built near Barcelona that replaced the SEAT 124. It was named Car of the Year in Spain in 1980 and was the first SEAT to carry a name rather than a number. The original car used licence-built pushrod engines from the old Fiat 124, and it was offered only as a five-door, unlike the Italian car. A sportier variant, the Ritmo 100 TC Crono, came at the end of the run with a 1,592 cc twin-cam engine of 95 hp. In 1982, when the partnership between SEAT and Fiat ended, the Ritmo was heavily restyled into the SEAT Ronda. It also gave its underpinnings to the first Ibiza and the Malaga. In total 118,450 Ritmos were built.