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The Fiat 125 Vignale “Samantha” was made by Vignale on the Fiat 125 chassis and unveiled at the 1967 Turin Car Show.
The Fiat 125 Samantha, despite it didn’t aroused a huge admiration, was produced in a limited run by Vignale. The 1608cm3 Lampredi twincam engine came straight from the normal “125” and produced 90 horsepower. Designed by Virginio Vairo, production stopped in 1971 and only a hundred cars were made, most of them went to France and England.
The story of Carrozzeria Vignale represents one of the many somewhat forgotten success stories born against the backdrop of an Italy that was torn apart by the Second World War and which, starting from the end of the 1950s, was able to recover enough to know a real miracle. economical just a few years later.
