June 26th, 2009 by admin

Car : Fiat 12-15 HP Zero
Year : 1912
Engine :4 cylinders in line
Bore and stroke :70×120 mm
Cylinder capacity : 1846 cc
Gears : 4 forward
Brake horse power : 19
Maximum speed : 39 mph
Wheelbase :8 ft 8 ins (2.64 m)
Suspension : front: semi-elliptic leaf- springs ; rear: ¾ leaf- springs

Car : Fiat 501
Year : 1919
Engine :4 cylinders in line
Bore and stroke :65×110 mm
Cylinder capacity : 1460 cc
Gears : 4 forward
Brake horse power : 23
Maximum speed : 44 mph
Wheelbase :8 ft 9 ins (2.66 m)
Suspension : front and rear : semi-elliptic leaf- springs

The 501 was Fiat’s first post World War I car and was designed by a lawyer, Carlo Cavelli. The standard version’s maximum speed was 44 mph, whilst for the S version it was 59-62 mph.
The Super was Fiat’s only car to have a 12-cylinder engine. The angle of the V was 60 degrees and it developed 80 bhp at 2,000 revs with a maximum speed of 75 mph. It is not certain how many of the Superfiats were built, though it maintained that three were only five. The Turin firm intended this car for the export market, as a rival to the highly esteemed Rolls-Royces and Hispano-Suizas, but the large capacity Fiat was not very successful abroad. Fiat, both then and later, was particularly connected with small capacity cars and it excelled in the design and manufacture of these cars. The financial crisis in 1922 also played a part in the failure of the ambitious Superfiat venture.