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Wasn't Lada or Fiat an option too?

by BrandoElFollito 3y ago

BlackFingolfin 3y ago
Fiat is from Italy, so probably no
- BrandoElFollito 3y ago
  Fiat was very popular in Poland and was also manufactured in Poland. Fiat 126p or 125p was a staple of communism in Poland.
Beldin 3y ago
Fiat is Italian, so from the other side of the Iron Curtain.
- PaulRobinson 3y ago
  The Polish government licensed the right to build several Fiat cars under the brand “Polski Fiat”. Fiat was pretty open to doing a deal with communist states if they could, and communist states were more than happy to be “inspired” by other manufacturers when designing cars, either by stealing ideas (Trabant 600 has lots of ideas taken from VW and Saab cars of the era), or through proper licensing deals. The first Lada for example is a Soviet government take on the Fiat 126p.
  - ahoka 3y ago
    Lada is based on Fiat 124. 126 is the Polski.
- izacus 3y ago
  That doesn't mean all that much though, there were several Fiat cats being built in eastern/southern Europe. E.g. Zastava was building them (the Yugo, "crappiest" car in the world was a licensed Fiat platform, same with 101 and 750). Polski Fiat was another example of Fiats common licensing of their platforms to Eastern Europe. They weren't very good, but they were available.
- odiroot 3y ago
  Communist Poland eas manufacturing Fiats on a licence.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  They were building Fiat's in license all over the former Soviet countries.
axegon_ 3y ago
Fiat as in Polski Fiat? Yes. But for whatever reason they were kinda rare. Lada - yes - that and Moskvich: those were the ones designed to either decapitate you put any healthy human into a semi-vegetative state for the rest of their life.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  They were so rare every second car in Poland was a Polski Fiat when the war fell. The other big brands in Poland were Polonez, Serena, some Wartburgs, the occasional Zil and lots of Skoda's as well. Some so old that they'd have been in a museum on the other side of the wall but doing daily service in the East.

Wasn't Lada or Fiat an option too?

BlackFingolfin 3y ago

Fiat is from Italy, so probably no

BrandoElFollito 3y ago
Fiat was very popular in Poland and was also manufactured in Poland. Fiat 126p or 125p was a staple of communism in Poland.

Beldin 3y ago

Fiat is Italian, so from the other side of the Iron Curtain.

PaulRobinson 3y ago
The Polish government licensed the right to build several Fiat cars under the brand “Polski Fiat”. Fiat was pretty open to doing a deal with communist states if they could, and communist states were more than happy to be “inspired” by other manufacturers when designing cars, either by stealing ideas (Trabant 600 has lots of ideas taken from VW and Saab cars of the era), or through proper licensing deals. The first Lada for example is a Soviet government take on the Fiat 126p.
- ahoka 3y ago
  Lada is based on Fiat 124. 126 is the Polski.
izacus 3y ago
That doesn't mean all that much though, there were several Fiat cats being built in eastern/southern Europe. E.g. Zastava was building them (the Yugo, "crappiest" car in the world was a licensed Fiat platform, same with 101 and 750). Polski Fiat was another example of Fiats common licensing of their platforms to Eastern Europe. They weren't very good, but they were available.
odiroot 3y ago
Communist Poland eas manufacturing Fiats on a licence.
jacquesm 3y ago
They were building Fiat's in license all over the former Soviet countries.

axegon_ 3y ago

Fiat as in Polski Fiat? Yes. But for whatever reason they were kinda rare. Lada - yes - that and Moskvich: those were the ones designed to either decapitate you put any healthy human into a semi-vegetative state for the rest of their life.

jacquesm 3y ago
They were so rare every second car in Poland was a Polski Fiat when the war fell. The other big brands in Poland were Polonez, Serena, some Wartburgs, the occasional Zil and lots of Skoda's as well. Some so old that they'd have been in a museum on the other side of the wall but doing daily service in the East.