{"id":18424,"date":"2019-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/fiat-8v-coup-zagato-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:30:04","slug":"fiat-8v-coup-zagato-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/fiat-8v-coup-zagato-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiat 8V Coup\u00e9 Zagato"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When you think of sports cars with V8 engines, you don’t necessarily think of Fiat. Indirect, through their modern subsidiaries Maserati and Ferrari, maybe, but directly in their own model range? Yes, there was one. However, only briefly between 1952 and 1954. Originally, they planned a new luxury sedan above the also in 1952 newly introduced Fiat 1900 (Tipo 105), for which the board room originally wanted a six-cylinder engine. Dante Giacosa, then Head of Vehicle Development, considered this engine concept to be too difficult to balance and personally favored a V8. In the course of the development work he rejected first an inline six-cylinder and a V6 engine as well as a V8 with 90\u00b0 bank angle. In the end, he developed an eight-cylinder engine with a V-angle of 70\u00b0. This initially wasn’t optimally balanced and had to be elaborately developed, but promised plenty of power in a compact space. At the request of the sales department, an engine was mounted for testing purposes to an extended chassis of a Fiat 1400 and provided to Pininfarina for a new sedan bodywork. However, this Tipo 104 was too big and too heavy for the drive was therefore discarded immediately.

But the V8 engine was too promising to put it into depot unused. Dante Giacosa proposed to develop a sports car as a prestige vehicle from which a new sedan could possibly be derived afterwards. Siata was entrusted with the chassis development, whereby it was consciously taken care that in addition to the factory-own bodywork also external constructions could be adapted. At the Geneva Motor Show 1952, the Tipo 106 finally celebrated its world premiere as Fiat 8V (Otto Vu). Whether the name really arose because senior Fiat employees feared that the name ‘V8’ could be under copyright protection in the US, is no longer certain to determine today. Finally, the chassis, the engine and the factory bodies were predominantly produced in the development department, which of course was considerably more expensive than the industrial mass production of the other Fiat models. Since the development of the planned sedan version was discontinued in favor of the 1900 as a new top model, it wasn’t surprising that in 1954 the sports car project came to an end for economic reasons. The engine was available in the three versions Tipo 104000 (105 hp), 104003 (115 hp) and 104004 (127 hp) in these three years of production.<\/p>\n\n\n

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