Extra Register News 12/2022 (en.)
Hi to all,
it's done: 10% of all Spiders built are documented in the worldwide Spider Register: Based on Pininfarina's production figures of 198,120 Spiders, exactly 19,812 Spiders are now documented!
Of course, this is not enough for us and we continue to collect data from previously unknown spiders. Support is always welcome!
This is the right time to compile some key facts:
- 19,812 documented spiders from 102 countries
- over 10,000 spiders listed with photo
- over 5,500 sales advertisements and almost 4,000 auctions documented
- New Top10 statistics with extended evaluations (see here)
And here is some country-specific information based on the new evaluations:
- General: over 90% of all documented spiders are registered in the Top10 nations
- General: almost 5% of all documented spiders have an automatic transmission
- General: almost 35% of all spiders are red
- General: in addition to 42 FIAT engines, 19 non-FIAT engines are installed and 4 electric conversions are known
United States (USA):
- 7737 Spider. Personal assessment: at least 50% more spiders due to sales ads without identification
- 1800cc CS1 and Spider 2000 fi (CS0) models with largest type share (30% and 31% respectively)
- Highest share of Automatic Spider with 9%
- In addition to US spiders, there are also 19 spiders from Europe and at least 5 from Canada in the U.S.
- 18 Non-FIAT engines installed plus 4 conversions to electric spider
Germany (D):
- 3465 Spider. Personal assessment: at least 100% more spiders based on pictures and sales ads without identification
- Over 60% re-imported US/CDN models
- 28% of all spiders are a CS0 injection model
- Over 5% of all spiders have an individual solution as a bumper (custom, mixed or none)
Italy (I):
- 2404 Spider. Personal assessment: at least 50% more spiders based on pictures and sales ads without identification
- BS1 with the largest type share (26%)
- Almost every 2nd spider (48%) is red
- 56% of all spiders have chrome bumpers
- only 22% re-imported US/CDN vehicles
The Netherlands (NL):
- 1448 Spider. Personal assessment: Almost 100% of all approved spiders documented on the basis of published approval data
- Almost 76% re-imported US/CDN spider
- 1800cc CS1 models with largest type share (32%)
- Only 1 non-original Spider engine installed
United Kingdom (UK):
- 641 Spider. Personal assessment: approx. 25% more spiders due to pictures and sales advertisements without identification
- Only 2% of all spiders have an automatic transmission
- Almost 7% of all spiders have an individual solution as a bumper (custom, mixed or none)
France (F):
- 623 Spider. Personal assessment: at least 50% more spiders based on pictures and sales ads without identification
- Almost 40% of all Spiders are European models with chrome bumpers
- Almost 60% are European models
- Less than 2% are Automatic Spider
Switzerland (CH):
- 623 Spider. Personal assessment: approx. 25% more spiders due to pictures and sales advertisements without identification
- 46% of all models are of the type Spidereuropa (DS)
- Almost every 2nd spider (45%) is red
- Only 2 automatic spider known
Belgium (B):
- 382 Spider. Personal assessment: approx. 25% more spiders due to pictures and sales advertisements without identification
- 1800cc CS1 models with largest type share (30%)
- Almost every 2nd spider (43%) is red
Canada (CDN):
- 307 Spider. Personal assessment: at least 100% more spiders based on pictures and sales ads without identification
- Spider 2000 fi (CS0) models with the largest type share (32%)
- Nearly 92% of all Spiders are models imported from the U.S.
- only 10 individually modified bumpers (Custom, mixed, none)
Australia (AUS):
- 282 Spider. Personal assessment: approx. 10% more spiders based on pictures and sales advertisements without identification
- 1800cc CS1 models with largest type share (42%)
- only 2 automatic spider known
- 7% individually modified bumpers (Custom, mixed, none)
It took us 26 years to achieve this result. What's next? We have our sights firmly set on the milestone of 20,000 vehicles, but realistically 30,000 vehicles should be possible.
Support us and report your Fiat 124 Spider. Updates, new pictures, vehicle sightings (with picture) are welcome!
Landing page as always: https://www.fiatspider.de/worldwide-spider-register
Yours Ralf