Start with what the SEAT 132 is: a 4-door saloon with 1.6–1.9L I4, built from 1973 to 1982, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Marcello Gandini.
The background
The SEAT 132 is a four door, rear wheel drive notchback saloon produced by SEAT from 1973 to 1982, as a rebadged version of the Fiat 132. It was presented for the first time at the Barcelona Motor Show, and was assembled in Barcelona's Zona Franca in Catalonia, Spain.
The engineering
The engine is 1.6–1.9L I4; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through 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.
Where it sits
In the SEAT line-up the SEAT 132 has a clear place: it replaced the SEAT 1500; it handed the line to the SEAT Exeo; the factory was Barcelona (Zona Franca), Spain. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Mitsubishi Lancer, the Volkswagen Passat, the Lancia Stratos. Its SEAT stablemates include the SEAT 124 and the SEAT 133.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the SEAT 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.