Start with what the Fiat 519 is: a 4-door sedan / 4-door limousine / 4-door cabriolet with straight-6, 4766 cc, built from 1922 to 1927, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Fiat 519 was a model of car produced by Italian automotive company, Fiat between 1922 and 1927. 2,411 were produced in total. Approximately 25 are known worldwide, of which one is a genuine 519S and three others are shortened 519s. Three have the pointed 519S radiator and the other two are flat. There are nearly 1,600 nickel plated parts on a Fiat 519 chassis.
The hardware
The engine is straight-6, 4766 cc. On the scales it comes to 2000 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 360 cm / 300 cm (519 S). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Fiat line-up the Fiat 519 has a clear place: it replaced the Fiat 520 Superfiat; it handed the line to the Fiat 525. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Opel 10/30 PS, the Bugatti 8-cylinder line, the Lancia Trikappa. Its Fiat stablemates include the FIAT 702 and the Fiat 1.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Fiat 519 — 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.