Why FIAT's Brilliant 130 Coupe Was SABOTAGED From The Start!

I remember seing Fiats , Audis ,Alfa Romeos , vanishing in rust dust in the late 1970s here in Tough Weather Sweden .

Again… I MISSED ANOTHER MASTERPIECE!
130 coupe 🤤

Unfortunately when car owners could go upmarket, they choose a German car.

The Fiat V6 was an underpowered budget engine based on the Fiat 128 inline four. It was unrelated to any Ferrari production engine and had absolutely zero race heritage.

The so-called 'Ferrari' V6 used in the Fiat Dino was actually a Fiat engine built in Turin for race homologation. Some of the engines (they were all identical) were supplied to Ferrari.

Sophia Loren had one of these

The predecessor of the RR Camargue ?

Beautiful more beautiful than new cars ugly made from blastic and lose Italian edition ,,,,not made v8 motor because oil crisis which because setrangers savagery this big car beautiful better than small seems not made like this now

Hand throttle on my old Lancia Beta 1300!🎉

Che bella macchina! Grazie, Robert and Jack! ❤❤

It failed, and with GOOD REASON. You are as lenient on it as if you were its MOTHER. Even the exterior design SUCKS. We do not have to kiss Pinin's ass every time he strikes out. And it is NOT the only flagship Italian design that failed. Look at the failure of the Rolls Royce Camargue! AND the Interior sure is UNACCEPTABLE for a Merc fighter. NO WONDER THE POS FAILED!

One of the best looking cars ever..and certainly the best headlights. The Berlina was an awesome car too.

What a fascinating machine in every aspect.

The saddest thing is what's NOW happened to Fiat since Stellantis took over. Fiat used to make some of the greatest cars ever. I owned a 125 Special which in its day was a real Lotus Cortina eater. It's SO sad to witness the demise of a once great brand. Their ohc twin cam engines were truly magnificent.

an Italian Jaaaaaaaag, so it has a bin in the boot for silverware ?

Of all the motor cars I've owned, only two I chose with my heart over my head. It was early 1980s; the pre fringe benefits tax era in Australia. My Sydney based Company gave me a budget to purchase a "Company Car" and so, rather than choosing a run-of-the-mill Ford or Holden, I acquired a beautiful, completely rust-free FIAT 130 Coupe! I drove it for 6 years for both private pleasure and for country business trips. All servicing and fuel completely covered by the company I worked for. I, like Enzo Ferrari himself, drove the FIAT 130 Pininfarina Coupe as a "daily driver" despite a plethora of tempting alternatives. In truth I was approached four times over those years with generous offers for my "Mafia Staff Car". The fifth (sadly) was "an offer I couldn't refuse"!!
More of a head-turner Inter-city cruiser rather than an all-out muscle car, it of course might have been quite a different creature with a V8. But the mid 70s fuel crisis pretty much nobbled it out of the starting gates, and the rest is history. Pity, because I gather there was a 130 Pininfarina-inspired 4 door and an Estate version waiting in the wings...
Oh, and the other car I bought with my heart? It's the one I drive right now - a Mercedes CLS AMG Shooting Brake... to my eyes, another gorgeous work of art I think!

What Fiat should have done was to introduce a new, luxury marque, much like the Japanese did. I am thinking of Lexus by Toyota, for example. It is all a matter of branding.

Looks like a 504 coupé ❤

In 1978 i had a Fiat 132 very elegant car for its time but a pice of junk in therms of reliability and maintaining its value.

"THIS!!..... Is the Fiat 130, and today we'll go over the many quirks and features...." Oh sorry, wrong channel 😏🤣🤣🤣🤣 😎🇬🇧

I think it is truly magnificent. Always loved the 130.

Hand assembled expensive.

One of my mates named Patrick used to have one of these as rhd in a lighter blue in Hampshire back then. I don't know if he still got it? I moved 2010 to Germany and got sadly not much contact to him anymore.

I love the roof lining

Una delle poche macchine buone prodotte dalla FIAT ma l'immagine della casa produttrice legata alle utilitarie ha bruciato sul nascere la 130.

I remember these. Stunning car! 😊

I guess the Germans won that war.

Had many Fiats but my dream was to own a 130.

Danke für diese eindrucksvolle informative und positive Beschreibung dieses einzigartigen Wagens. Ich mag diese Art von emotionaler Schilderung der Fahreindrücke. Vor allem ein begeistertes Danke an den Eigentümer für seine Verehrung und Werbung eines tollen Fiat.

Maybe it was the lengthwise tubular headliner.....

Too much competition for the zionist.

Its like a Marina on steroids !

Beautiful car.

Side profile looks like european Ford Granada Mk2 2-door.

Quell’autoradio moderna non si può vedere. Sarebbe molto meglio dotare la macchina di un modello del suo tempo…Saluti dall’Italia!

From an American perspective, the car looks, for better or worse, ahead of its time. It's got the 3-boxy-box styling that nearly everything sold here had by the late 1970s, the flush headlights look a lot like the dual-rectangular sealed beams the were allowed here starting in 1975 and the substantial, blocky, bumpers look as if they were designed with our 5 MPH standard (which was 2 years away in '71) in mind. Of course, all that might not have been exactly what the market demanded in Europe in 1971, especially at the price of a BMW from the "fix it again Tony" folks. I've always thought that automakers with a tarnished reputation for quality, like FIAT (now Stellantis), Renault and what's left of GM and Ford, should offer their newest platforms at low volumes under premium brand names with exceptionally long, comprehensive warranties, to keep their "beta tester" customers happy, then hand them down to their bread-and-butter divisions once all the bugs are ironed out.

A term from the Wikipedia page about the SAAB 93: It is called an “executive compact”. So accurate. Could the 3600 be classified as such?

never heard of of the 130, thank you for making this video. I knew the 131, 124, of course the x 19.

That interior.....beautiful

It only flopped because it was a Fiat. And people couldn't get their heads around a company renowned for making small cars, making a big car. Had this car had a BMW badge - it would have been a global best seller. Nothing has changed more than 50 years on.

I see this coupe for the first time in my life and it's so beautiful😍..
Totally felt in love with it.. 😘

I love the 130 saloon - it looks so elegant. The coupe is beautiful, but I'm a sucker for a true underdog. The one off shooting-brake, the Maremma, is fantastic.

Fiat reached too far upmarket and should've aimed at the Ford Granada and Opel Commodore.

Lovely car.

Όταν η fiat κατασκευαζε ακομη εξωτικα αυτοκινητα δρομου 😊❤

I thought it was a Ferrari Mondial

It’s a wonderful car, indeed. But it looks more like if they declared war to America than Germany.

This car is romanticised because it died an untimely death. The reliability was never proven. Rust was the killer on all Fiats so what's there to say this would have been any different. Plus it was a Fiat it was never going to give competition to a BMW, Merc, Jag or even a VW.

Fantastic, beautiful car!