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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.