Fiat is an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino, and in Latin, the word means “let me be there.” The company’s origin can be traced back to a few years before 1910 when a group of smart businessmen decided to purchase it and made it into a car manufacturing giant that is currently being hailed in the world all over.

The very first car ever made by the company was engineered by Faccioli, a talented Ceirano employee way back in 1901. The auto mobile had a coach-looking appearance and it was powered by a 2 cylinder Boxer 3 hp engine. The investment group head then approached Faccioli about developing and a front-end engine car, but this did not go well with him and decided to resign.

But his resignation did not deter the company and as expected, a replacement was found in the blink of an eye. An engineer by the name Enrico took up the task and one year later, he had developed a 1.2 liter 4 cylinder model, which he developed with a technology he had borrowed from Mercedes.

With time, the popularity of the company kept growing and it became bigger with each day. However, it still had to endure lengthy and long research periods and after many trials using a six and a four cylinder models, the company was ready to go on mass production for its first car – the 1912 Tipo Zero.

FIAT’s plans of mass production were however shelved with the setting in of the pre war time when they had to shift their production stages to meet the demands of aircraft and tanks for the war. But when the war was over, the company went ahead with the mass production and enjoyed a lot of success selling lots of units of their vehicles. The 501 Cavalli model for instance had sold up to 45,000 units by 1926. After lots of trials with the luxurious big models, the company reverted to producing its highly popular models. This led to the mass production of the 509, a car whose sales whose sales exceeded any other FIAT sales record, selling up to 90,000 units by 1929.

The later years saw the company come up with newer models whose popularity matched or performed better than the previous ones, with the most notable ones being the 1932 Tipo, Sporting 995cc 25hp as well as the 36hp engines.

A few years prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, FIAT released the long lived Tipo 500 and the 1500 models, with the former remaining as it was until 1948. The end of the war saw FIAT swim in more success due to its two top selling models at that time – the 1100 and the 500. Though no major changes were made to the vehicles after the end of the war, FIAT recorded an amazing threshold by selling 1 million units of the 600 model.

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