Fiat Coupé 20V Turbo
Why 7.2: Fiat's most powerful production engine of its era was a turbocharged five-cylinder from the same family as the Lancia Delta Integrale, wrapped in a Pininfarina-designed coupe body sold only in Europe. Survivors are cheap, mechanically simple by modern turbo standards, and driven by owners who bought in specifically because nobody else wanted one.
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Median asking price, good condition · €29k (1996) → €21k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
The long version
Fiat commissioned the shape from Pininfarina's studio under Chris Bangle and then, uncharacteristically for the era, backed it with a genuinely serious engine — a 20-valve turbocharged five-cylinder making 220 hp, more than any other production Fiat had offered before it. It never came anywhere near a US showroom, so the entire ownership population outside Europe is a handful of grey-market imports and forum-famous outliers. Rust and Fiat's era-appropriate reliability reputation kept prices on the floor for two decades, which produced exactly the ownership pattern that floor prices always produce: buyers who wanted this specific five-cylinder turbo coupe badly enough to accept the risk, and who drive the survivors rather than trailer them. The classic-car market has only recently started noticing, so today's buyers are still getting a genuinely distinctive Pininfarina shape for money that wouldn't touch a comparable Alfa.