The Fiat 131 is a 4-door Saloon car / saloon / 2-door Saloon car / saloon / 5-door Station wagon / estate / 3-door panel van from Fiat, built from 1974 to 2010, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. The total made was 1,513,800.
Where it came from
The Fiat 131 is a mid-size family car manufactured and marketed by Fiat from 1974 to 1984 after its debut at the 1974 Turin Motor Show. Available as a two-door and four-door saloon and 5-door estate across a single generation, the 131 succeeded the Fiat 124.
The 131 was also marketed as the Fiat Mirafiori, after the Turin district where the cars were manufactured. Initially, the 131 was offered with 1.3 L and 1.6 L overhead valve engines and the range received revisions in 1978 and 1981. Production reached 1,513,800.
Under the skin
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 950 to. It shifts through a 4-speed Manual transmission / manual / 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 3-speed Automatic transmission / automatic. 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 2490 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 124; its successor was the Fiat Regata; assembly was at Fiat Mirafiori. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Volkswagen Scirocco, the Jeep Cherokee, the Volkswagen Golf — 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 131 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.