Talk:Fiat 850

Spider headlamps
The early spider did not have canted headlamps. The vertical headlamps were recessed into the fenders more deeply than the later(1968 and on) models and had canted plastic covers. This is why they were changed when introduced to the american market. Some states frowned on headlight covers at the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Romaniantruths (talk • contribs) 02:54, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Engine specs
I'm confident that all the 850 powerplants run counterclockwise(unlike the earlier 600, or the later 112). Also, the engine specs vary from different sources. Some books quote gross HP and others DIN. I'll check my shop manuals(a reprint of the original Fiat one, and a Haynes and a Chilton), and see what they say. I think it also might be a good Idea to mention the unusual head design(4 exhaust ports, but only 1 intake port), and the fact that It's an unusually late example of an engine with a permanent 'oil-slinger' type centrifugal oil filter. (This shortened the life of quite a few 850s because gas stations often had non-mechanics doing oil changes and some of them had no Idea what an oil-slinger was, or that it was supposed to be cleaned when the oil was changed. Romaniantruths (talk) 03:16, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

transmission
While I'm checking the 850 specs I'll find some info on the icondrovert semi-automatic that some 850s had as an optional transmission.Romaniantruths (talk) 03:16, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

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Not built in an Italian plant? Eh?
Being a Fiat, I would have expected the plant that it was built at to be included in the infobox. Instead, we have Heilbronn, Germany. This is seriously weird. Boscaswell  talk  08:09, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Well spotted and thanks for sharing what you spotted.  It's been there since May 2018, but was entered by an editor without a track record, so speculation on whether it was a "good faith improvement" or mere mischief maybe doesn't take us too far.   Regards  Charles01 (talk) 08:18, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Correction.  I remembered where to look it up.   According to Werner Oswald ("Deutsche Autos:  Band 4") they assembled 6,619 Fiat 850s at the Heilbronn plant between 1965 and 1967.   I tend to trust Werner Oswald on such matters.   However, without including the Turin plant in the info box - assuming that's where most of them were produced, which I'm reasonably sure it was, it would be perverse to include the Heilbronn plant on the basis of 6,619 cars assembled from (presumably) ckd kits shipped across the Alps  Regards Charles01 (talk) 08:33, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


 * It looks like the German production was branded as the Neckar Adria. Toasted Meter (talk) 08:54, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Agreed - and here's the wiki entry for Plant Heilbronn (still a bit of a work in progress till now, I think).  Regards Charles01 (talk) 11:44, 4 January 2019 (UTC)