Talk:Fiat 130

A fact from Fiat 130 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Fiat 130 Coupé featured a button-operated mechanism allowing the driver to open the passenger-side door?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/August.

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OK everyone, let's get to work[edit]

I already started work on this article by removing some parts of text that sounded like corporate fellatio and corrected some grammar and syntax. Let's get this thing finished. Oh, and no "soviet steel" stuff please. Urban legends don't belong in Wikipedia. Elp gr (talk) 14:11, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Let us mourn the death of a once-promising stub :( PrinceGloria (talk) 18:43, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

heh it needs only "some" work ........... --— Typ932^{T | C} 19:16, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What's up with this article? Who wrote this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.53.179.232 (talk) 15:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Major editing required[edit]

This article is way too long; has it been plagiarised from a book on the subject? Doesn't do its job here - it is way too detailed! Myredroom (talk) 19:42, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Its not too long, but poorly written, needs total rewrite --Typ932 ^T·C 20:10, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is too long - all the discussion (which is opinion and uncited) about ways the engine could have been developed is entirely extraneous. I have started to cut out the dead wood. The more I read it the more it looks like it is lifted from a book or magazine; wikipedia articles are not the place for rhetorical questions. It is also not the place for statements like:

....."with good wheel geometry control and a limited-slip differential, leading to better wet weather driving than in Mercedes and BMW rivals"

or

"This rear suspension is that used in the 2400 Dino, so again, one may expect a sporty, rather than comfort-biased ride. No in depth analysis has been conducted, but the overall result confirms our worst fears : both the front and the rear suspension are unsatisfactory in the areas of nooise, vibration and harshness, making the ride less smooth than a Jaguar XJ."

The list could endless and suggest plagiarism.

I will alter to simply present the facts.

Myredroom (talk) 16:51, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lampredi[edit]

I removed the words "Ferrari engine designer" from the engine section. Aurelio Lampredi left Ferrari in 1955, 14 years before the launch of the 130. His professional output while at Fiat SpA should speak for itself, and calling him "Ferrari engine designer" in 1969 just isn't fair. That he was asked by Ferrari to "streetify" the Dino V6 makes no difference. Lampredi worked for Fiat practically his entire professional life. TorW (talk) 18:18, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]