Fiat
The Fiat 147 is one of 298 Fiat models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1976. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Fiat 147 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Lotus Cars Lotus Esprit, the Ford Ford Fiesta, the Hyundai Hyundai Pony — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Fiat 147 reads like this: the record lists its engine as 903 cc Fiat 100 series engine / 100 series Overhead valve / OHV Straight-four engine / I4 / 1049 cc Fiat Fiasa engine / Fiasa Overhead cam / OHC I4 / 1116 cc Fiat 128 SOHC engine /; kerb weight is recorded at related = Fiat 127 / SEAT 127 / SEAT Fura / Fiat Fiorino / Fiat Oggi / Fiat Panorama; drive goes through 4 or 5-speed manual; the layout is FF layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Fiat's own catalogue the Fiat 147 sits alongside the FIAT 702, the Fiat 1, the Fiat 10 HP, the Fiat 1100. The record names the Fiat 133 (Argentina) as its predecessor and the Fiat Uno as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Brazil: Betim / Argentina: Córdoba (Sevel) / Chile: Rancagua / Colombia: Bogotá (CCA) / Uruguay: Canelones (Nordex S.A.) / Venezuela: La Victoria, Aragua.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
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Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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