2 x Fiat X1/9 Bertone in action on hillclimb: Accelerations & Loud Sound!

Here’s a video about two very loud Fiat X1/9s I recorded during the 2020 Bologna-Raticosa historic hillclimb in Italy. The X1/9 is a two-seater mid-engined sports car designed by Bertone and manufactured by Fiat from 1972-1982. It was the first Fiat to have been designed from the beginning to meet US safety regulations. Thanks to its balanced handling, retractable headlights, lightweight removable hardtop which could be stowed under the bonnet, front and rear storage compartments it achieved a decent success in sales. The X1/9 derives from a 1969 concept car, the Autobianchi A112 Bertone Runabout, a compact barchetta with an eye-catching roll bar. It was built by Bertone and designed by Marcello Gandini, as a sports solution proposal for the A112. The success obtained by the Runabout at the Turin Motor Show of the same year encouraged Nuccio Bertone to built an evolution of the prototype in the style of a Targa sports car, so that it could be more easily industrialized compared to the original barc