Polski Fiat
Polski Fiat was a Polish car brand under which vehicles from the Italian manufacturer Fiat were manufactured under license .
history
Polski Fiat was founded in 1921 as a sales company for vehicles from the Italian manufacturer Fiat. On the basis of a license agreement with Fiat, the models 508 and 518 were assembled from 1934 and offered under the brand name Polski Fiat . In 1936 the Polski Fiat 508 was redesigned for the Polish market. Furthermore, off-road vehicles for the Polish army were manufactured in-house. After the occupation of Poland in 1939, the company was closed.
After the Second World War , a new license agreement with Fiat was planned in 1948. In 1968 the brand was finally relaunched with the Polski Fiat 125p produced in the Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych (FSO) . The car was exported to both the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany and was manufactured under this name until 1982 and under the name FSO 125p until 1991.
The second model manufactured in the People's Republic of Poland under the license of Fiat was the Polski Fiat 126p , which was also called Maluch (Polish: Small ) in Poland . The vehicle was manufactured between 1975 and 2000 in Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych (FSM) for the Polish and European markets. Most of the cars of this type sold in the Federal Republic of Germany came from Poland, which can be recognized by the FSM logo on the side of the car.
In Poland, the “Maluch” symbolizes the motorization of broad sections of the population for whom other models would not have been available, and in this respect it is comparable to the VW Beetle in the Federal Republic of Germany or the Trabant in the GDR.
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- Michael Dünnebier, Eberhard Kittler: Passenger cars of socialist countries. Transpress, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-344-00382-8
