The Fiat 505 is a 4-door sedan, / 4-door Torpedo / 4-door cabriolet / truck from Fiat, built from 1919 to 1925, as the assembly line was turning motoring into an industry. Under the bonnet: straight-4 2296 .
The background
The Fiat 505 is a passenger car produced by Fiat between 1919 and 1925. The 505 was based on the same basic design as the four-cylinder Fiat 501, but with a larger engine and bigger exterior dimensions. With a 2296 cc (30 hp) engine, the car could reach a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph). 30,000 examples of the Fiat 505 were produced.
The engineering
Power comes from straight-4 2296 . It weighs 1550 kg. It shifts 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 305 cm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Fiat 2B; its successor was the Fiat 507. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Hispano-Suiza H6, the Citroën Citroën, the Citroën Type A — show what else the money bought that year. Its Fiat stablemates include the FIAT 702 and the Fiat 1.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Fiat 505 — 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.