Fiat does not build many cars like the Fiat 132: a 4-door saloon with Petrol engine, built from 1972 to 1981 as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Its designer of record is Marcello Gandini.
How it came about
The Fiat 132 is a large family car which was produced by the Italian automobile company Fiat from 1972 to 1981. An updated version of the 132, called the Argenta, was produced from 1981 to 1985.
The hardware
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 1,120 – 1,170 kg. The gearbox is a 4 and 5-speed manual / 3-speed 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 2557 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Fiat's history is not in doubt: the Fiat 125 came before it; the Fiat Argenta followed it; it was built at Turin. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Renault 5, the Lancia Stratos, the Volkswagen Passat. Its Fiat stablemates include the FIAT 702 and the Fiat 1.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Fiat 132 — 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.