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

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.