Forgotten by most sports car enthusiasts, the tiny but mighty X1/9 was designed by the man behind the Lamborghini Miura, featured a mid-mounted four-pot created by a former Ferrari engine wizard, and ...

So many mid-engine Italian exotics of the 1970s were wedge-shaped--the De Tomaso Pantera, the Maserati Bora, the Lamborghini Countach--that you might think they came from doorstop manufacturers ...

The 1976 Fiat X1/9 arrived in showrooms with modest power figures and a humble badge, yet it delivered the kind of balance, style, and engineering usually reserved for far more expensive exotics. By ...