Talk:Autobianchi A112

Citroën link
In the early seventies, in France, I think I remember that this car was sold in Citroën dealerships as part of the general agreement between Fiat and Citroën (the time of Prototype Y). Hektor 03:31, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Great! Can you perhaps dig out a reference? Maybe you can find something @ ? I will be having another big request for a favor, just to warn you :D Bravada, talk - 08:28, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * By the way I am the creator of the article Neckar (car), which has to do with Autobianchi too... Hektor 08:54, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That's even better, as I wanted to move to expand Neckar further later on! BTW, as you might have noticed, Autobianchi articles need good free photos. And there is a really well organized Club Autobianchi in France, whose members include owners of probably all possible Autobianchis, and surely have some nice photos of the cars... I guess you can figure out what I want to suggest :D Bravada, talk - 09:23, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Fiat 127

 * The Autobianchi A112 is a supermini produced by the Italian automaker Autobianchi. It was developed using the mechanicals of the Fiat 127

Uhmmm. Sure?. The Fiat 127 entered production in 1971. Randroide 11:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, that's the point.  The front wheel drive super mini was, at that stage, a most unconventional format.   Fiat told the press they introduced the Autobianchi to test market reaction, and because market reaction was positive they subsequently launched on a much bigger scale the Fiat 127.   They had done almost precisely the same regarding the Autobianchi Primula and the Fiat 128 a couple of years earlier.   While testing the market seems a reasonable thing to do, maybe they were also interested to see if they had sussed one or two of the engineering challenges involved in producing on a production line a car reliably delivering power and steering and suspension through a single set of wheels, but that thought is speculative so maybe has no place even on  a talk page...Still, the production technology challenges will have been real as maybe BMC had already found more than a decade earlier Charles01 14:27, 25 August 2007 (UTC)