Fiat · 1993–2000
Fiat Coupé
The Fiat Coupé (Type 175), officially also known as Coupé Fiat, is a car that was manufactured by Fiat between 1993 and 2000. The two-door, four-seater coupé was introduced at the Bologna Motor Show in December 1993 and features an exterior design by Chris Bangle at Centro Stile Fiat and an interior designed by Pininfarina.
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Predecessor: Fiat 128
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History
The Fiat Coupé made media headlines in auto magazines during 1992, after several spy shots were taken revealing the car on test. Fiat had decided to produce a new coupé based upon the old Tipo platform when the Pininfarina factory was suddenly dormant after the Cadillac Allanté project failed around 1990. Two designs were put forward, with Fiat's in-house Centro Stile team competing with Pininfarina. The concept as put forward by Centro Stile's Chris Bangle unexpectedly won the Fiat management over. The design previously offered by Pininfarina was eventually accepted by Peugeot, who adopted it as the 406 Coupé in October 1996. On its launch in January 1994, the Coupé was available with a four-cylinder, 2.0 L 16V engine, in both turbo (190 PS) and normally aspirated (139 PS) versions. Both engines were later versions of Fiat's twin-cam design and inherited from the Lancia Delta Integrale, winner of the World Rally Championship a record six times. 1996 brought in a 1.8 L 16V engine (not available in the United Kingdom, 131 PS), along with a 2.0 litre five cylinder 20V (147 PS), and a five-cylinder 2.0 litre 20V turbo (220 PS). Along with the new engines Fiat also made some minor design changes including the front grille, steering wheel, the door panel now included leather, the interior centre console was redesigned and the digital clock was replaced with an analog one. Production of the right-hand drive models for markets including the UK began in early 1995, and continued until the end of Coupé production five years later. Both the turbocharged 16V/4-cylinder and 20V/5-cylinder (four valves per cylinder) versions were equipped with a very efficient Viscodrive limited-slip differential to counter the understeer that plagues most powerful front wheel drive cars. Additional
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Specifications
- name
- Fiat Coupé
- aka
- Coupé Fiat
- Manufacturer
- Fiat
- Assembly
- Turin, Italy (Pininfarina)
- Production
- 1993–2000
- Predecessor
- Fiat 124 Sport Coupé, Fiat 128 Coupé
- Layout
- FF layout
- Class
- Sports car (S)
- Platform
- Type Two (Tipo Due)
- Body style
- 2-door coupé
- Engine
- 1.8 L Family B 16V I4, 2.0 L Family B 16V I4, 2.0 L Twin Cam 16V turbo I4, 2.0 L Family C 20V I5, 2.0 L Family C 20V turbo I5
- Transmission
- 5 and 6-speed manual
- Wheelbase
- 2540 mm
- Length
- 4250 mm
- Width
- 1768 mm
- Height
- 1340 mm
- Kerb weight
- 1250 -
- Related
- Fiat Tipo (160)
- Designer
- Chris Bangle at Centro Stile Fiat (1991), Pininfarina (Interior)
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Sources
- Wikidata — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1123868CC0 1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Coup%C3%A9CC BY-SA 4.0 · Text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1267595639 · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fiat_Coup%C3%A9_front_20090604.jpgAttribution · Photo: Rudolf Stricker · retrieved 2026-10-01
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.