Fiat · 1969–2010

Fiat 128

The Fiat 128 is a small family car which was manufactured and marketed by Fiat from 1969 to 1985. The bodystyles were a two- or four-door sedan, three- or five-door station wagon as well as two- or three-door coupé. With engineering by Dante Giacosa and engine design by Aurelio Lampredi, the 128 was noted for its relatively roomy passenger and cargo volume—enabled by a breakthrough innovation to the transversely-mounted front-engine, front-drive layout which became the layout "adopted by virtually every other manufacturer in the world" for front-wheel drive. Fiat promoted in its advertising that mechanical features consumed only 20% of the vehicle's volume. The 128 running gear and engine, reconfigured for a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, were used in the Fiat X1/9 sports car. Named European Car of the Year in 1970, over three million were ultimately manufactured. In 2012 automotive journalist Jamie Kitman called the 128 a "pioneer of the small cars we drive today."

Text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Generations & variants

Fiat 128

1969–2010

Photos

UK vehicles on the road

62 licensed and 43 SORN (105 total) at 2025 Q4.

DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.

Sources

• Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q846139CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
• Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_128CC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1377640181 · retrieved 2026-10-03
• DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
• Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.

More from Fiat