After World War II, the Agnelli family was removed from management, accused of collaborating with the Mussolini regime, but in 1966, the grandson of the founder, Gianni Agnelli, regained control of the business. That same year, an agreement was signed with the Soviet Union to build a plant at VAZ in Togliatti and organize production of a copy of the Fiat 124 - the VAZ-2101. Fiat also sold licenses to manufacture its models to other companies: SEAT (Spain), FSO (Poland), Zastava (Yugoslavia), NSU (Germany), Tofas (Turkey) and others. The intensive growth in 60-ies was accompanied by the construction of new factories, and in 1970 in Italy only Fiat was producing already 1.4 million cars per year and had more than 100000 employees. During this period, Fiat began to take over other Italian brands: Lancia (1968), Ferrari (1969), Alfa Romeo (1986) and Maserati (1993).
During the economic crisis of the 1970s Fiat was transformed into the holding company Fiat SpA. In the early 80s, the brand leaves the North American market, but remains one of the leading brands in Europe. During that time, nine Fiat models won the title 'European Car of the Year'. 124 (1967), 128 (1970), 127 (1972), Uno (1984), Tipo (1989), Punto (1995), Bravo (1996), Panda (2004) and 500 (2008).
In 2014, Fiat and Chrysler merged to form the multinational Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). As a result, Chrysler was saved from bankruptcy and Fiat regained access to the U.S. market. Today Fiat-Chrysler is the second largest automaker in Europe and seventh in the world. It owns Italian brands Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Lancia, Maserati and Abarth, as well as the liquidated Autobianchi and Innocenti. The largest plants of Fiat are located in Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Poland. The annual production volume of Fiat Group cars exceeds 4 million units, including commercial vehicles. Do not forget to use Fiat VIN decoder in order to avoid potential problems when buying a used car.
VIN Examples
2014 SEAT MII
2014 CITROEN C4CA EHDI92ETG FE FI
2014 OPEL CORSA
2014 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 1.9
2014 RENAULT CAPTUR
2014 BMW 325I 2
2014 RENAULT MEGANE CLASSIC
2014 FORD ESCORT
2014 SEAT TOLEDO 1.8 INY
2018 MITSUBISHI MONTERO
2018 YAMAHA CS50
2018 RENAULT R. KANGOO
2018 HONDA SH 100
2018 SEAT IBIZA 1.4 5V 5P
2018 RENAULT CLIO
2018 CITROEN XSARA 19D SEDU 5P
2018 OPEL ZAFIRA 2.0
2018 ALFA ROMEO ALFA 145 TD CAT.
2014 NISSAN PRIMERA
2018 CITROEN C-15 CUMBRE
2018 FORD FIESTA
2018 SEAT TOLEDO 1.9 TDI
2018 OPEL CORSA
2018 CITROEN BERL HDI90 XTRPL
2018 FORD MONDEO
2018 KIA SORENTO
2018 SEAT IBIZA 1,9 TDI 3P.