Fiat 1500 (1935)

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name = Fiat 1500
manufacturer = Fiat
production = 1935-1950
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layout = FR layout
body_style = sedan
engine = straight-6 1493 cc
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predecessor = Fiat 514
successor = Fiat 1400
designer = :"This article is about the 1930s-50s models - there were also entirely different Fiat 1500s manufactured from 1961 to 1967."The Fiat 1500 is a car produced by the Fiat from 1935 to 1950. The car was introduced in Salone dell'Automobile di Milan in 1935. It was one of the first cars tested in a wind tunnel, following the Chrysler Airflow produced one year earlier. The styling was by the emerging designer, Giacosa, [Setright, L. J. K. "FIAT: The Godfather of the Italian Motor Industry" in Northey, Tom, editor. "World of Automobiles" (London: Orbis Publishing Ltd, 1974), Volume 6, p.660.] who achieved an aerodynamic efficiency unequalled before it in a touring car, [Setright, p.660.] and (contrary to the failure of the "lumpen" Airflow) [Haywood, Paul. "Streamlining: Engineers' Reality, Stylists' Myth" in Northey, Tom, editor. "World of Automobiles" (London: Orbis Publishing Ltd, 1974), Volume 19, p.2215.] disproved the thesis aerodynamic cars would not sell. [Haywood, p.2215.]

The second series 1500B, with better brakes, was introduced in 1939, and just barely year after that, the 1500C, with redesigned front end.

In 1949, the 1500E appeared, having some exterior changes and the external spare wheel moved inside the car.

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* Haywood, Paul. "Streamlining: Engineers' Reality, Stylists' Myth" in Northey, Tom, editor. "World of Automobiles", Volume 19, pp.2214-7. London: Orbis Publishing Ltd, 1974.
* Setright, L. J. K. "FIAT: The Godfather of the Italian Motor Industry" in Northey, Tom, editor. "World of Automobiles", Volume 6, pp.652-63. London: Orbis Publishing Ltd, 1974.