Start with what the Fiat 502 is: a 4-door sedan / 4-door cabriolet with straight-4 1460 , built from 1923 to 1926, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. What it meant takes a little longer. 20,026 were built.
The story
The Fiat 502 is a car produced by Fiat between 1923 and 1926. The 502 was more expensive and bigger variant of the 501. 20,000 were produced.
What is underneath
The engine is straight-4 1460 . On the scales it comes to 1000 kg. Drive goes 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 275 cm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Fiat line-up the Fiat 502 has a clear place: it replaced the Fiat Zero; it handed the line to the Fiat 503. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Alfa Romeo RM, the Renault KJ, the Tatra 11. Nearby in the Fiat catalogue sit the FIAT 702 and the Fiat 1.
Owning one today
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Fiat 502 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.