Fiat 500 Case Study

17. Fiat 500 (1957):
The city car of Fiat 500 was a rear engine, 2 door fastback and four passengers marketed and manufactured by the Fiat automobiles over the 1st generation of the station wagon and coupe body styles. They launched Most Reliable Cars of a new Nuova have been very cheap & practical touring car. There are originally measured in length of 2.97 meters and powered by the 2 cylinder 479 CC, air cooled motor and consider the 1st city cars of Fiat 500 just producing 13 horsepower. These Most Reliable Cars model featured with the fabric roof, rear folding like a Citroen 2CV rather than roof design. Thus three models have been featured with suicide doors and sport version of distinctive red stripe & powerful engine. It gives an original

The Copper Brazed was also referred as CoBra“The Mighty Tin”. This car has been originally established by the Lloyd Taylor of engines in California. These Most Reliable Cars were used for military purpose in a abroad B17 flying fortress bombers and PT boats. It had been done to get uniform wall thickness, thin and avoided creation of the hot spots in the combustion chamber. Then the cars could ignite fuel and caused by pre-ignition, which was turned into limited compression ratio. These Most Reliable Cars engine has been used to refrigerator compressor, power generator and much more. They were widely used to praise for their effort of war succession. The CoBra car was a lightweight motor with one overhead camshaft & driven by the 2 sets bevel gears, small and front block of vertical shaft. The cylinder head and unitary block weight of only 6.7 Kg with complete all the accessory weights of 60 Kg. This engine displacement was 44 cubic inches that can produce the power to 26.5 horsepower and 20 KW at 5400 RPM. They could be acceleration from 0 to 60 MPH in 34 Sec, quarter mile drag time of 23.5 Sec, curb weight of 533 Kg and wheelbase 85 inches at a high top speed of 67

Thus the Prizm car was exclusively sold in the US and succeeded to the Chevrolet Nova. A unique model car of JV Company between the Toyota & General Motors in California was built in a New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. The Prizm car was replaced to the Pontiac Vibe that were related to Corolla & produced at NUMMI. This Prizm car was a four door sedan body type with the mounted on the front engine transferred power to the front wheels. These Most Reliable Cars was naturally aspirated engine capacity of 1.8 L, four cylinders with two valves per cylinder and a single overhead camshaft. This engine used a five speed manual transmission that can boost the power to 115 BHP, 117 PS, 56 KW at 5600 RPM and maximum torque of 156 NM at 4800 RPM. This car length of 172.6 inches, 66.3 inch width, 52.8 inch height, 97.1 inch wheelbase, 1070 Kg curb weight and compression ratio of 1.78. It was measured as a stroke of 85.6 mm, bore of 10.70 inches and stroke & bore ratio of 0.95. It could accelerate from 0 to 60 MPH in 10.9 Sec, estimated fuel and mileage consumption of 27/34 MPG at top- speed of 116