The Fiat 1100 is a 4-door Sedan (car) / saloon / 4-door Station wagon / estate / 2-door Roadster (automobile) / spider from Fiat, built from 1953 to 2000, at the height of the post-war boom. Under the bonnet: 1,089 .
Where it came from
The Fiat 1100 is a small family car produced from 1953 until 1969 by the Italian manufacturer Fiat. It was an all-new unibody replacement for the Fiat 1100 E, which descended from the pre-war, body-on-frame Fiat 508 C Balilla 1100.
The 1100 was changed steadily and gradually until being replaced by the new Fiat 128 in 1969. There were also a series of light commercial versions of the 1100 built, with later models called the Fiat 1100T, which remained in production until 1971. The Fiat 1100 D also found a long life in India, where Premier Automobiles continued to build the car until the end of 2000.
Under the skin
Power comes from 1,089 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 103 E: 828 –. It shifts through a 4-speed manual. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2342 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Fiat 1100 E; its successor was the Fiat 128; assembly was at List of Fiat Group assembly sites. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Chevrolet Corvette, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Fiat catalogue sit the FIAT 702 and the Fiat 1.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Fiat 1100 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.