Ferrari for the poor: the brainchild of Chris Bangle, which he painted for Fiat (18 photos)

In the nineties, there were several models that, according to different reasons have left their mark. There are those who stood out for design, someone functions, and someone extravagance. Fiat Coupe Turbo could be part of the first and third cases.





Italian cars are known for their style: Alfa Romeo, Lamborghini, Ferrari, of course, and… Fiat. You may be surprised, but company has a sports car, which you can buy at a price of several hundreds of thousands of rubles. What's with the Ferrari? This brand belonged to owned by Fiat. Moreover, BMW is also tied to this car. BUT looking at the car, you can easily confuse it with a Ferrari.



Enough mysteries. This is a Fiat Coupe that was produced from 1993 to 2000. years. The coupe was designed by Chris Bangle. This is the same person who created the BMW design of the early 2000s. In the early 1990s, his coupe design Fiat was selected from several options, one of which presented design house Pininfarina.





Like some of Bangle's other designs, the Fiat Coupe looks a bit... unconventional. But it has a certain charm than they can't boast many modern cars. The main feature of the machine is her hood. Take a closer look - the headlights are integrated into it. Where else can you find such a solution?



Externally, the Fiat Coupe is very similar to the Ferrari. For example, a little appeared later Ferrari 458. But in terms of its characteristics, the car extraordinary - it was equipped with engines with power from 130 to 220 hp. That there is acceleration to 100 km / h, depending on the engine, it ranges from 9.3 up to 6.5 seconds.

For example, a Ferrari 456 of the same years of production accelerated to 100 km / h in 5.2 seconds - 1.3 seconds faster than our Fiat.



On the a very interesting copy of the Fiat Coupe appeared on sale in the USA these days, which was the reason to remind you of this car. He's perfect condition and is equipped with a top-end 220-horsepower engine. Its mileage is only 49,685 km, and the seller asks for this coupe 18 thousand dollars, or 1.1 million rubles.

In Russia, a similar Fiat Coupe will cost less, but will have more mileage.