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Origins
Zastava of Kragujevac, an arms maker since 1853, began building Fiats under licence in the mid-1950s, and the 750 — a Fiat 600 gently enlarged — became the car on which Yugoslavia motorised. Produced from 1955 into the mid-1980s and known universally as the Fića, it was the first car for hundreds of thousands of families, the star of films and jokes, and the vehicle of the Adriatic summer migration. Its rear-mounted twin-bearing four grew from 600 to 750 and later 850cc; nothing else important changed in three decades, which was precisely its charm. Well over 900,000 were built. Slow, sociable and loved without irony, the Fića occupies in Yugoslav memory the space the Beetle holds in Germany's — the sound of modest good times.
Fičo1 · Janezdrilc · Public domain
