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Spider Turbos were distinguished by a small decal on the lower fender.
Island to develop a turbocharged variant. Utilizing a Borg- Warner/IHI RHB6 turbocharger, Legend’s goal was to increase overall output, but especially to expand the torque band of the engine. With boost starting at 1,400 rpm, there was a dramatic improvement in everyday driving behavior; at 9.2 seconds the Turbo was nearly a second faster to 60 mph than its normally aspirated counterpart. Approximately 700 were built.
Azzurra
As its total sales slipped to about 14,000 units in 1982, Fiat decided withdraw from North America the following year. But because the Spider (and its sibling, the Bertone-built X1/9) was assembled by Pininfarina, production could continue for some time and the Spider was rebadged the Pininfarina Azzurra in honor of Italy’s contemporary America’s Cup entry. The most visible feature of the relaunch were rear-view mirrors now protruding from the quarter windows rather than mounted on the door, but there were other substantial changes, too, including a revised center console and a parcel bench behind the seats in place of the largely vestigial rear seat.
On the assumption that the Azzurra would continue well into the 1980s, Pininfarina undertook further improvements in order to justify a price increase to $20,000, including new, wider alloy wheels, upgraded brakes, a pressurized cooling system, shorter shift lever, more vertical steering wheel and repositioned gauges for better visibility. More significantly, the original worm & roller steering box was replaced with a far more precise rack &
Later versions of the Spider offered a GM-sourced three-speed automatic transmission.
Fiat 124 Sport Spider
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