page_title: Polski Fiat 125p
section_title: Cars
hierarchical_section_title: Polski Fiat 125p / History and development / Cars
caption_attribution_description: English: Polski FIAT 125p_1500, model of 1980 year was build by FSO (Passenger Car Factory) in Warsaw Polski: Polski FIAT 125p, pojemność 1500, model roku (MR): 1980. Kolor morelowy. Obecnie zarejestrowany jako pojazd zabytkowy. Jest to jeden z ostatnich MRów wyposażonych w ozdobne listwy i chromowane przednie zespolone lampy świateł kierunkowskazów/postojowych. Począwszy od roku 1982 Polskie Fiaty 125p były pozbawiane, ze względów oszczędnościowych i trudnej sytuacji gospodarczej wszelkich dodatków i ozdób. W roku 1983 Polskie Fiaty 125p utraciły licencję Fiata, a nazwę modelu zmieniono na FSO 125p
context_page_description: The Polski Fiat 125p is a motor vehicle manufactured between 1967 and 1991 in the People's Republic of Poland and the Republic of Poland by the state-owned manufacturer Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych under a license agreement with Fiat. It was a simplified variation of the Fiat 125, with engines and mechanicals from the Fiat 1300/1500. To distinguish between the models, Fiat and FSO revived the marque Polski Fiat. After the termination of the license agreement, the car was also branded as the FSO 1300, FSO 1500 or FSO 125p.
context_section_description: There were two main versions, differing in the engine employed: 1300 (1295 cc, 60 PS, 44 kW) or 1500 (1481 cc, 75 PS, 55 kW). The 1300 model entered production in 1968 and the 1500 in 1969. The 1300 ceased production in the late 1980s. Polish cars differed in detail from Italian ones: most visibly there were four round headlights instead of four square ones, simpler bumpers and front grill, orange color front turn signal lenses, simpler body sheet metal stampings, and the old Fiat 1300/1500 chassis and interior. A less visible but significant change in the Polski Fiat was a safer flat fuel tank above the rear axle, instead of Fiat's vertical tank on the rear right-hand side. It also had more durable all-around disc brakes.
  Unlike the Fiat 125, the car was also available as an estate (125p Kombi; introduced in 1972), and as a pickup developed in Poland after Italian Fiat 125 production ended in 1972. The station wagon won the 1978 Estate Car of the Year Award in the United Kingdom.
  A few cars were made with Italian-made 1600 cc (125p Monte Carlo) and 1800 cc (125p Akropolis) twin-cam engines, intended mostly for racing. An unusual variant built in a small series was a lengthened cabriolet with three rows of seats, used by the tourist bureau in Warsaw for sightseeing.
  There was a minor restyling in 1973, when the chrome front grille was replaced with a black plastic one, and in 1975, when a new black plastic grille arrived along with new turn indicators, enlarged horizontal rear lamps (instead of pairs of thin vertical ones), and a slightly modernised interior: a new plastic dashboard and steering wheel, hubcaps featuring modern stamped patterns, new bumpers with horizontal strips of rubber which replaced paired vertical guards. The power of both engines was also raised by 3.7 kW. From 1983, the car was produced as the FSO 125p 1500/1300. In the late 1980s the 125p received its last upgrade in form of power train from the FSO Polonez and a new instrument cluster featuring round gauges in place of the classic Fiat speedometer.
  The car was produced until 26 June 1991 (to fulfill factory preproduction sales obligation – the communist prepayments system, system przedpłat); in total, 1,445,689 were manufactured. By that time the design was 24 years old and used mechanicals which were essentially 30 years old, with only minor improvements.
caption: Polski Fiat 125p (1980)
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