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Fiat 131 Abarth #3 M. Alen / I. Kivimaki Winner Rally 1000 Lakes 1980 Kyosho 1:18

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Fiat 131 Abarth #3 M. Alen / I. Kivimaki Winner Rally 1000 Lakes 1980 Kyosho 1:18 08376H Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Fiat 131 Abarth reproduces Markku Alen and Ilkka Kivimaki's #3 car, winner of the 1980 1000 Lakes Rally on Alen's home gravel roads. Correct Group 4 rally livery, wide arches and period wheels make this a strong anchor for a World Rally Championship diecast collection built around Fiat's works era.
Fiat 131 Abarth #3 M. Alen / I. Kivimaki Winner Rally 1000 Lakes 1980 Kyosho 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Fiat
Model Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
08376H
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About the Fiat 131 Abarth #3 M. Alen / I. Kivimaki Winner Rally 1000 Lakes 1980 Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Fiat 131 Abarth reproduces Markku Alen and Ilkka Kivimaki's #3 car, winner of the 1980 1000 Lakes Rally on Alen's home Finnish gravel. Fiat's Group 4 works rally car took manufacturers' titles across the late 1970s and 1980, at standard diecast tier for World Rally Championship collectors.

The 1000 Lakes Rally was Markku Alen's home event, run on the fast gravel roads he grew up driving, and winning it in a factory Fiat 131 Abarth in 1980 confirmed him as one of the era's genuine rally specialists. Kyosho builds this exact result rather than a generic livery.

Fiat's Group 4 Works Car and a Home Win

The 131 Abarth's Rallying Record

Fiat developed the 131 Abarth specifically for Group 4 competition, and the car took the World Rally Championship manufacturers' title in 1977, 1978 and again in 1980, a genuine title-winning machine rather than a privateer entry dressed up for the model range. Its wide arches and rear spoiler were functional rally aids rather than styling additions, shaped by years of gravel and tarmac stage development across the championship.

Alen and Kivimaki on Home Ground

Markku Alen built much of his reputation on Finnish gravel, and the 1000 Lakes Rally, run close to his home roads, suited his fast, precise driving style better than almost any other round on the calendar. Co-driver Ilkka Kivimaki called the pace notes for this win, and the pairing's success in 1980 came during Fiat's strongest period in the championship, before Alen moved on to other manufacturers later in his career. That home-soil advantage never guaranteed a result on its own, since the 1000 Lakes drew the strongest entries of the WRC calendar every year Fiat contested it. Kivimaki's calm pace-note delivery through the fastest sections is often credited by contemporaries as a key part of why the pairing worked so well together.

Kyosho's Rendering of a Group 4 Rally Car

Livery Accuracy and the #3 Identity

The model carries Fiat's Abarth racing livery with sponsor decals placed as they ran at the 1000 Lakes, and the #3 door number sits with sharp, flat printing rather than a soft transfer that would look wrong on a rally-liveried casting. Wide wheel arches, the rear spoiler and bonnet vents are all shaped to match the real 131 Abarth's homologated bodywork rather than a road-going 131's more modest silhouette.

Rally-Specification Detail Under the Skin

Underneath, the model reflects the raised ride height and gravel-spec wheels rally cars needed, distinct from the lower stance a road-going 131 carried, and the interior includes a rally-correct roll cage and bucket seats rather than a standard saloon cabin. These details separate a properly researched rally casting from a road car simply repainted in a race livery. The auxiliary driving lights mounted ahead of the grille, essential for night stages, are modelled as separate applied parts rather than moulded into the bumper. Even the mud staining moulded lightly into the lower body and wheel arches nods to the conditions these cars actually raced in, rather than presenting a showroom-clean rally car that never existed on stage.

A Genuine Result for a Classic Rally Shelf

At roughly 23 centimetres, the 131 Abarth takes a similar footprint to other Group 4 rally cars from the same era, making it easy to build a themed late-1970s and early-1980s WRC shelf around several manufacturers at once. Because this reproduces an actual event win rather than a generic team livery, it carries more weight for a collector chasing documented results than a car finished in Fiat's colours without a specific result attached. Displayed beside a Lancia Stratos or Opel Ascona from the same period, this Fiat completes a picture of Group 4's final, most spectacular era before Group B took over. For anyone assembling a Finnish motorsport corner specifically, this remains one of the most historically grounded pieces available.

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