The Fiat 130 is a large executive car

Executive car

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 manufactured by the Italian automaker

Automaker

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 Fiat, which was available as a saloon or coupé

Coupé

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The saloon was launched at the 39th Geneva Motor Show in March 1969, replacing the previous largest and most exclusive Fiat saloon, the Fiat 2300

Fiat 2300

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. It was a thoroughly modern car, with four-wheel independent suspension

Independent suspension

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 (torsion bars in the front and coil spring

Coil spring

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s in the rear), standard power steering and four-wheel disc brakes, and was the first Fiat to adopt an alternator instead of a direct-current generator.

The Coupé, based on the same platform, was introduced in March 1971.