Talk:Fiat 1200

SAMAF & Fiat Nettunia
aka Société Anonyme de Montage des Automobiles FIAT

According to [one online source] SAMAF was an assembly operation set up in 1957 to assemble Fiats somewhere in Belgium. According to the same source it was owned by Fiat. It would be good to have more and more persuasive sources, but that might require better access than I have to Flemish/Dutch (or Italian) sources. My own interest was pricked by the writing on the back of what I thought must be a special edition late model Fiat 1100, but when I came across the same car three years later and looked more closely it identified itself as a Fiat Nettunia 1200 - successor to the [Fiat Urania]. Looks like a version of the Fiat 1200 Granluce except it was assembled in Belgium, and came with a name that's easier (I suspect) for Flemish speakers to know how to pronounce without needing first to master Italian.

Does anyone have sources sufficient to kick off an entry on the Société Anonyme de Montage des Automobiles FIAT and / or the Fiat Nettunia? Or is this a question of "too much information"? Does wikipedia acknowledge the possibility of "too much information"?

Thanks (if you did) for sharing any available thoughts or providing any wiki-contributions on this.

Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 10:45, 18 August 2016 (UTC)


 * While sadly I know nothing more than it's written on zuckerfabrick.com about SAMAF and its operations, having recently worked on the Fiat 1100 page I can tell you that:
 * The Nettunia 1200 is not a 1200 Granluce, but rather a straight rebadge of the 1962–65 Fiat 1100 D (which confusingly used the 1.2-litre engine previously found on the Granluce...!). By the way, that 1100 D section I just linked is quite lacking, but I'm working on fixing that...
 * The Urania is a rebadge of the 1960–62 Fiat 1100 Export, the predecessor of the 1100 D and the first 1100 to use the 1200's bodyshell.
 * Given the paucity of information and the fact that (at least as far as I can tell) the only difference between these Belgian models and their Fiat equivalents is badging, in my opinion they would be best dealt with in the appropriate sections of the Fiat 1100 article. Or/and in a collective article about Belgian Fiat and its models.
 * —Cloverleaf II (talk) 16:03, 18 August 2016 (UTC)