The seller of today's Nice Price or No Dice Fiat X1/9 claims it is "cosmetically very original, but has quite a few good modifications." Let's see if we like the price or if it needs some changes. If ...
The seller of today's Nice Price or No Dice X1/9 calls it "restored FUN." Let's see if the price has similar restorative properties. Yesterday's 1986 Volkswagen GLI proved to be a pretty perplexing ...
Beyond the very of-their-time graphics and fancy seats, the main upgrades we made to the so-called Project Targa Florio Fiat X1/9 were confined to the suspension. The goal, remember, was to turn the ...
The Fiat X1/9 is one of those cars that could have been just about perfect if the company behind it had just pushed that little bit harder. Design? It rocked. Wedges were cool in the 1970s and the ...
So many mid-engine Italian exotics of the 1970s were wedge-shaped--the De Tomaso Pantera, the Maserati Bora, the Lamborghini Countach--that you might think they came from doorstop manufacturers ...
Italian cars aren't renowned for their reliability, to put it mildly, but if there's one thing the Italians have generally gotten right over time, that would be the design. If somebody asked you to ...
Because these cars aren't worth much in rough shape, many languish in yards or driveways for decades, clinging to life by virtue of being cool Italian sports cars yet unable to find buyers to give ...
Forgotten by most sports car enthusiasts, the tiny but mighty X1/9 was designed by the man behind the Lamborghini Miura, featured a mid-mounted four-pot created by a former Ferrari engine wizard, and ...
Before we tell you all about Mike Brewer's 1974 Fiat X1/9 featured in the season premiere of Wheeler Dealers on the MotorTrend App and how much of a unicorn a relatively rust-free, running, driving, ...
From the June 1979 issue of Car and Driver. Wall Street's investment advisers are sounding the inflation warnings again. They're telling us to dig in, forget our passbook savings accounts, put our ...
We come to you now as the moving picture business slowly begins to dig itself out of five years of doldrums. The slowdown was sparked by Covid in 2020 and followed by the seven-month writers’ and ...