Fiat does not build many cars like the Fiat 124: a 4-door Sedan (car) / saloon / 5-door station wagon / 2-door coupé (Fiat 124 Sport Coupé / 124 Sport Coupé) / 2-door Roadster (automobile) / spider (Fiat 124 Sport Spider / 124 Spor with 1,197 , built from 1966 to 1974 in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar.
The background
The Fiat 124 is a small family car manufactured and marketed by Italian company Fiat between 1966 and 1974. The saloon superseded the Fiat 1300 and spawned station wagon, four-seater coupé (124 Sport Coupé), and two-seater convertible (124 Sport Spider) variants.
Fiat licensed numerous variants of the 124 for worldwide manufacture, including the Russian-built VAZ-2101 "Zhiguli" and its many derivatives. Known as the Lada outside the Soviet Union, these Russian variants constituted the vast majority of 124 derived production, making it the fifth best selling automotive platform in history. The 124 was superseded in its home market by the Fiat 131, launched in 1974.
The engineering
Under the skin sits 1,197 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 855 –. The gearbox is a 4-speed manual / 5-speed manual (Special T). 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 2420 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Where it sits in Fiat's history is not in doubt: the Fiat 1300 and 1500 came before it; the Fiat 131 followed it; it was built at Turin. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Lamborghini Miura, the Dodge Charger, the Toyota Corolla. Its Fiat stablemates include the FIAT 702 and the Fiat 1.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Fiat 124 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.