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 VOLVO XC70
2014 CITROEN ZX 1.9 D AVANTAGE
2014 HYUNDAI ATOS PRIME
2014 MERCEDES-BENZ E320CDI
2014 INDOX AUTOP 3 ALCCI
2014 OPEL KADETT 1.8I GSI
2014 AUDI AUDI A4 1.8 5V.
2014 CITROEN C4
2014 SEAT IBIZA 1 3
2014 SEAT TOLEDO 1.8 INY
2014 RENAULT MEGANE
2014 JEEP CHEROKEE
2014 RENAULT MEGANE 1.9 D
2014 FORD FOCUS
2014 RENAULT MEGANE
2014 RENAULT MEGANE SCENIC
2014 RENAULT MEGANE
2014 CITROEN AX 14TZ S
2014 FORD GALAXY 2.0
2014 OPEL CORSA
2014 CITROEN XSARA 19TD ATRACT.5P
2014 SUZUKI AY 50 W
2014 KEEWAY HURRICANE 50
2014 SIN MARCA SMART
2014 CITROEN C3
2014 CITROEN XSARA 20HDI VTR
2014 FORD TRANSIT CONNECT