EVERYONE’S UTILITY CAR – The “comfortable” and “swanky” small car. But also “sparmiosa” and “scattosa”, as recited the very nice neologisms at the center of the ultra-modern advertising campaign that accompanied the launch of the Fiat Uno. The practical and intelligent small car, very small outside and very spacious inside (3.64 meters in length: practically like a present-day Fiat Panda, but much more welcoming) to win, with the naturalness of simple products and the nonchalance of the “predestined”, the new challenges of the 80s. The small car best-seller“baked out” in almost nine million specimens, protagonist of a success that still today makes it the eighth best-selling machine in the world. For its first forty years (who the news), we want to remember the Fiat Uno in so many ways. Focusing more on the technical aspects of the project than under the new “dress” designed by Giorgetto’s Italdesign Giugiaro concealed the tried and tested front-wheel drive and engine scheme of the previous Fiat 127, on its ability to carry on that mission of car democratization that had been successfully carried out by its most famous ancestors, from the 600 to the 500 up to, precisely, the 127.
BEHIND THE ONE THERE IS A WHOLE WORLD… – But the world that revolves around the Fiat Uno it is far more vast and varied than that. And it offers numerous other ideas for understanding the phenomenon of a model that literally made the history of the automobile. Everyone knows the legendary Turbo ie version very well, a symbol, yesterday as today, of an era in which a small utility vehicle with a few modifications under the bonnet was enough to feel like a driver even when queuing at traffic lights. Less known but no less important, on this side of the ocean, of the Uno are the long-lived versions for the Latin American market, and especially for the Brazil, where its latest heir (which took its name despite having a body almost identical to that of the current Panda) retired only at the end of 2021. We decided to retrace these and other chapters of the “world One” in our photogallery. To remember, through slightly more “unusual” angles, a car that, after all, belongs to all of us.
