Seat 1200 Sport Coupé

Seat
Seat 1200 Sport Coupé
1200/1430 Sport Coupé
Production period:	1975-1980
Class :	Compact class
Body versions :	Coupe
Engines:	Petrol engines : 1.2-1.4 liters (49-56.5 kW)
Length:	3665 mm
Width:	1555 mm
Height:	1250 mm
Wheelbase :	2225 mm
Empty weight :	805-815 kg
Previous model	Seat 124
successor	Seat Bocanegra

The Seat 1200 Sport Coupé is a two-door coupé of the lower middle class . It was the first model developed by Seat itself. Until then, Seat had only built Fiat designs under license.

history

Rear view

When it was launched in the spring of 1975 , it received the four-cylinder in-line engine of the Seat 124 with a displacement of 1197 cm³ at the front, transversely installed. The output was increased to 49 kW (67 hp) with a double carburetor. The 2 + 2-seater ran up to 160 km / h.

The 1200 sports coupé was significantly smaller than the Seat 124 sports coupé that had appeared five years earlier . The body was designed by Aldo Sessano's Turin office Open Design ; it was based on the NSU Nergal study developed for NSU and built at Eurostyle . The vehicle always had a black plastic front that framed the headlights and grille and was responsible for the nickname “Bocanegra” (“black mouth”) in Spain. For the first series of the 1200 Sport, the platform (floor pan, transmission, chassis) of the Fiat 127 was used. The drive of the side camshaft of the Fiat 124 engines via timing chain was changed from Seat to toothed belt.

In 1977 the Seat 1430 Sport Coupé appeared with the same body, but floor assembly, chassis and transmission from the Fiat 128. The engine of the Seat 1430 with 1438 cm³ now had a register carburetor and 56.5 kW (77 hp). The same engine and transmission combination was used in the Seat 128 and Seat Ronda. The trunk could be opened from the driver's seat using a cable.

The 1430 Sport Cóupé was the first Seat model to be introduced to Germany by importer Walter Hagen.

At the beginning of 1980, production of both vehicles, which had only moderate success across Europe, was discontinued without a successor. As the successor model, the Seat Bocanegra concept vehicle was built in 2010 in 1000 copies based on the 4th generation Seat Ibiza .

data sheet

Seat	1200 sports	1430 sport
Engine:	4-cylinder in-line engine (four-stroke), front transverse
Displacement:	1197 cc	1438 cc
Bore × stroke:	73 × 71.5 mm	80 × 71.5 mm
Performance at 1 / min:	49.5 kW (67 hp) at 5600	56.5 kW (77 hp) at 5400
Max. Torque at 1 / min:	90 Nm at 3700	111 Nm at 3400
Compression:	8.8: 1	9.0: 1
Mixture preparation:	1 downdraft twin carburetor / 1 downdraft register carburetor (1430)
Valve control:	Lateral camshaft, drive via toothed belt
Cooling:	Water cooling
Transmission:	4-speed transmission, front-wheel drive
Front suspension:	MacPherson struts , lower wishbones, stabilizer
Rear suspension:	trapezoidal wishbones, shock absorber struts , a transverse leaf spring
Brakes:	Disc brakes at the front (diameter 227 mm), drums at the rear
Steering:	Rack and pinion steering
Body:	Sheet steel, self-supporting
Track width front / rear:	1310/1325 mm
Wheelbase:	2225 mm
Dimensions:	3665 × 1555 × 1250 mm
Empty weight:	805 kg	815 kg
Maximum speed (factory):	160+ km / h	165 km / h
0-100 km / h (factory):	14.5 s	n / A
Consumption (L / 100 km):	not specified

swell

• Automobil Revue , catalog number 1979, p. 495

Web links

Commons : SEAT 1200 Sport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani, Aesthetica 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412 , p. 208.
2. ↑ Motor Klassik, issue 10/2015.