1988 Fiat 126 Bis Blue 704 cc, water-cooled Polski Fiat 126p Bis version – a three-door hatchback. 80s vehicles en-route to Lytham Hall classic car show, Lancashire, UK
The Fiat 126 (Type 126) is a four-passenger, rear-engine, city car manufactured and marketed by Fiat over a twenty-eight year production run from 1972 until 2000, over a single generation. Introduced by Fiat in October 1972 at the Turin Auto Show,[1] the 126 replaced the Fiat 500, using major elements from its design. A subsequent iteration, marketed as the 126 Bis, used a horizontally oriented, water-cooled engine and featured a rear hatchback. The majority of 126s (some million) were manufactured in the Tychy plant in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and were marketed as the Polski Fiat 126p. In many markets, Fiat stopped marketing the 126 in 1993 in favor of its new front-engined Cinquecento. Total production reached approximately million units. In Poland, the car became a people's car,[3] and a cultural icon, earning the nickname Maluch, meaning "The Little One" or "Toddler",[4][5] a name that eventually became official in 1997, when 'Maluch' started appearing, badged on the rear of the car. In early 2020, the 28-year production run of the Fiat 126 was counted as the twenty-sixth most long-lived single generation car in history by Autocar magazine
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Location: Blackpool, UK
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