45 Facts About Fiat SpA

The Fiat SpA Group contained many brands such as Ferrari, Maserati, Fiat SpA, Alfa Romeo, the Chrysler Group, and many more.

Fiat SpA was founded in 1899 by a group of investors, including Giovanni Agnelli.

In 2013, Fiat SpA was the second largest European automaker by volumes produced, and the seventh in the world ahead of Honda, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Suzuki, Renault, and Daimler AG.

In 1970, Fiat SpA employed more than 100,000 in Italy when its production reached the highest number, 1.

Fiat SpA was succeeded briefly by Paolo Fresco, who served as chairman, and Paolo Cantarella, as CEO.

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In 1922, Fiat SpA began to build the famous Lingotto car factory—then the largest in Europe—which opened in 1923.

Fiat SpA made military machinery and vehicles during World War II for the Army and Regia Aeronautica and later for the Germans.

The best Fiat aircraft was the G 55 fighter, which arrived too late and in too limited numbers.

Fiat SpA was reorganized on a product-line basis, with two main product groups—one for passenger cars, the other for trucks and tractors—and a number of semi-independent division and subsidiaries.

In 1967, Fiat SpA made its first acquisition when it purchased Autobianchi; with sales amounting to $1.

At the time, Fiat SpA was a conglomerate, owning Alitalia, toll highways, a typewriter and office machine manufacturer, electronics and electrical equipment firms, a paint company, a civil engineering firm, and an international construction company.

In 1973, Fiat SpA established Comau, an industrial automation company out of the various suppliers which had equipped the AvtoVAZ plant in Russia.

Comau became an industry pioneer in the use of Robotics for vehicle assembly – a technology with which Fiat SpA would become synonymous for in the 1970s, with its "Robogate" system for bodyshell manufacture, and the later FIRE family of robot-assembled engines in the 1980s.

US foreign policy under President Reagan's administration canceled a Pentagon contract to produce earth movers with Fiat SpA and pressured the company into brokering a buyout of the Libyan investment.

In 1999, Fiat SpA formed CNH Global by merging New Holland NV and Case Corporation.

In 2003, Fiat SpA shed its insurance sector, which it was operating through Toro Assicurazioni to the DeAgostini Group.

Fiat SpA formed a joint venture with India's TATA Motors, which has subsequently ended, and with China's Chery Motors which didn't conclude.

In 2005 Fiat SpA courted Ford, and returned to China with a joint venture GAC Fiat SpA created in 2010.

In December 2008, Marchionne announced Fiat SpA had to become one of the top five automakers to survive in the long run.

Fiat SpA would provide engine and transmission technology to enable Chrysler to introduce smaller, fuel-efficient models in the NAFTA market.

Under his leadership, Chrysler has taken on a structure similar to that of Fiat SpA and has released, in quick succession, a large number of completely redesigned or refreshed vehicles.

Fiat SpA launched its 500, which had been available in Europe since 2007, in the United States and Canada in 2011, marking the company's return to the American auto market, which it had been absent from since 1984.

On 5 January 2012 Fiat SpA released press info that the ownership has increased to 58.

On 1 January 2014, Fiat SpA announced it would be acquiring the remaining shares of Chrysler owned by the VEBA worth $3.

In 2005, Fiat SpA formed an alliance with Ford to create a new small car, resulting in the Fiat SpA 500 and Ford Ka.

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In 2012, Fiat SpA formed an alliance with Mazda to develop and build a new rear wheel drive roadster for the Alfa Romeo and Mazda brands.

Fiat SpA is the largest vehicle manufacturer in Italy, with cars ranging from small Fiat SpA city cars to sports cars made by Ferrari, and vans and trucks such as the Ducato.

Fiat SpA owns Autobianchi but the marque has been dormant since 1995, and Innocenti, which ceased production in 1996.

Fiat SpA was established in December 1978, and designs and produces cylinder blocks, cylinder heads, exhaust manifolds, drive shafts, camshafts and other components for automobiles and commercial vehicles.

Fiat SpA is has one of the largest shareholdings in RCS MediaGroup.

Palazzo Grassi, a well-known historic building in Venice, now a museum and formerly supported by Fiat SpA, was eventually sold to the French businessman Francois Pinault in January 2005.

Fiat SpA, as Fiat SpA Aviazione, was an important aircraft manufacturer, focused mainly on military aviation.

Fiat SpA produced, among the rest, the successful Pendolino tilting trains, the first working prototype four-car set being run in the mid-1970s.

Fiat SpA Group owned the Sestriere skiing facilities; the village in the Alps is a creation of the Agnelli family.

In 1914 the fourth and final American Fiat SpA was introduced, the smaller Type 53 - the equivalent of the Italian Tipo 3 Ter.

Fiat SpA sold 665,514 vehicles in Brazil in 2008, allowing the carmaker to continue as the market leader for seven years in a row.

Fiat SpA has been present in Argentina since the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1965, the Polish communist government signed a deal with Fiat SpA to produce selected Fiat SpA models in Poland at the FSO factory in Warsaw that had been built in 1951.

Fabryka Samochodow Malolitrazowych in Bielsko-Biala and Tychy was a joint venture between FSO and Fiat SpA, and manufactured the Fiat SpA 126 in 1973 and the Cinquecento in 1991.

In 1966, Fiat SpA helped USSR state industries build a new car factory on the Volga river.

Fiat SpA installed British machine tools supplied by Herbert-BSA of Birmingham for the manufacture of many Lada parts.

The Fiat SpA 124 was produced under licence by Tofas as the Tofas Murat.

However, production of some Fiat SpA-based models continued, ending with the Fiat SpA-based Marbella in 1998.

Fiat SpA India Automobiles Private Limited is a joint venture between Fiat SpA and Mumbai based Tata Motors, founded in 1997.

The Fiat SpA plant is situated in Ranjangaon near Pune in Maharashtra and manufactures the Tata Indica.

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