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Fiat 131 Abarth Fiat France #9 J-C. Andruet / C. Delferrier Winner Rally Sanremo 1977 Kyosho 1:18

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Fiat 131 Abarth Fiat France #9 J-C. Andruet / C. Delferrier Winner Rally Sanremo 1977 Kyosho 1:18 08375A Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 die-cast Fiat 131 Abarth reproduces the #9 Fiat France entry that Jean-Claude Andruet and Christian Delferrier drove to victory at the 1977 Rally Sanremo, part of the Group 4 rally car that carried Fiat to multiple World Rally Championship manufacturers' titles. Opening doors and hood expose a cast interior with rally-correct livery and lighting pods. A strong choice for a European rally shelf built around late-1970s Group 4 machinery.
Fiat 131 Abarth Fiat France #9 J-C. Andruet / C. Delferrier Winner Rally Sanremo 1977 Kyosho 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Fiat
Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
08375A
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About the Fiat 131 Abarth Fiat France #9 J-C. Andruet / C. Delferrier Winner Rally Sanremo 1977 Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 die-cast Fiat 131 Abarth recreates the #9 Fiat France car Jean-Claude Andruet and Christian Delferrier drove to victory at the 1977 Rally Sanremo. Opening doors and hood reveal a cast interior, with rally-correct livery and auxiliary lighting on the Group 4 machine that carried Fiat to multiple WRC titles.

Group 4 rally cars from the late 1970s rarely get the same shelf space as their Group B successors, yet the 131 Abarth's championship record makes it one of the era's genuine title winners. Kyosho's die-cast picks a real victory rather than a generic livery.

Fiat's Works Rally Weapon of the Late 1970s

Homologated for Group 4 With Abarth

Fiat developed the 131 Abarth specifically to satisfy Group 4 homologation rules, working with Abarth's competition department to fit a 16-valve twin-cam engine, a live rear axle setup tuned for gravel and tarmac alike, and flared arches to cover wider rally rubber than the road-going 131 sedan ever wore. Group 4 required a minimum production run of the base road car, which meant Fiat's engineers had to work within the 131 sedan's basic structure rather than starting from a clean sheet, a constraint Lancia and Ford also faced with their own homologation specials of the period. The result won Fiat the World Rally Championship manufacturers' title across several seasons in the late 1970s and into 1980.

Andruet, Delferrier, and a Sanremo Victory

Jean-Claude Andruet, already an established French rally driver by the mid-1970s, partnered with Christian Delferrier in the Fiat France-liveried #9 car for the 1977 Rally Sanremo, one of the championship's Italian gravel and tarmac rounds, and drove it to victory. That win, part of the manufacturer's title-winning campaign that season, is exactly the kind of documented result that separates a meaningful rally livery from a generic factory scheme, and it is the specific entry Kyosho chose to reproduce rather than a plain works color scheme.

Kyosho's Die-Cast Rendering of a Championship Rally Car

Opening Panels and Rally-Spec Detail

Kyosho casts the 131 Abarth in die-cast metal, and the weight in hand confirms genuine zinc alloy construction rather than a promotional lightweight piece. Doors and hood open on metal hinges to reveal a cast rally interior, including a simplified roll cage structure and bucket seating that road-going 131 sedans never carried. Panel gaps run slightly wider around the opening features than a sealed resin rally car would show, the standard trade-off die-cast makes everywhere in this catalog for the ability to actually open the body rather than mold it as one fixed shell.

Livery, Lighting Pods, and Wheel Arches

The livery carries the correct Fiat France sponsor placement and the #9 door numbering with clean, sharp registration rather than soft edges. Auxiliary driving lights sit mounted ahead of the grille as period rally cars ran them, and the flared arches house rally-spec wheels with the correct offset to match the widened track. It is not the ultra-crisp shut-line precision a specialist resin rally car would deliver in a limited run, but for a subject this specific, the mid-tier finish is a fair trade for opening panels and genuine interior detail.

Building a Late-1970s Group 4 Rally Shelf

A 131 Abarth fills a real gap on a rally-themed shelf, bridging the Group B icons most collectors reach for first, like the Lancia Delta Integrale or Peugeot 205 T16, with the less-celebrated but equally successful Group 4 era that came before them. At roughly 21 centimeters, the 1:18 scale shows the flared arches and auxiliary lighting with a clarity smaller formats cannot match, while still sitting comfortably among other Kyosho rally subjects from the same period. Keep the model out of direct light for long stretches, since the bright rally-sponsor decals fade faster under UV exposure than a plain factory-color livery would. Group 4 cars like this one rarely get the display attention their championship records actually earned, which makes a well-detailed 131 Abarth a genuinely distinctive addition.

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