"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/13/2018 at 18:42 • Filed to: Fiat, Seat, 133
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
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Time for an obscure Fiat or, as it was more commonly sold, a Seat. The 133 was an update of the 850 and the main objective of its designers was that it be cheap.
Despite looking rather like a 127 it had nothing (engine excepted) in common and despite looking like a 126 from the back it had nothing in common with that either.
Some of the earlier models would run on 85 octane (RON) fuel, an unusual diet even then.
AuthiCooper1300
> Cé hé sin
03/13/2018 at 19:18 |
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Some precisions:
The 133 was developed by Seat, not by Fiat (they would have made a much better job of it, methinks!).
[Edit: did you change the original wording? I think your first version implied it had been a Fiat development, correct? If you did not I misread your text. Apologies if that is the case.]
Seat 133s were only available with the 848 cc engine; the car was just a rehashing of the most basic version of the Fiat/Seat 850. The 903 cc engine (the one used in the 127 and “hotter” versions of the 850) was never available in the Seat 133, only in some Fiat ones built outside Spain.
The reason for the low-compression engine was the extremely poor quality of the petrol sold in Spain at the time.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Cé hé sin
03/13/2018 at 20:17 |
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I would say it looked by far more like a 126 in the front than a 127...?