November 1966 – Fiat 124 Spider debuted at the Turin Auto Show
1968 – First Spider sold in the U.S. market
1975 – Produced exclusively for the U.S. market after immense sales success there
1979 – Renamed the Spider 2000
1981 – Pininfarina took over the entire production process of the vehicle. Sales in Europe resumed
1982 – Production of Fiat and Pininfarina Spiders overlapped as Fiat built the last Spider 2000 models and Pininfarina began production of its own version, sold in the U.S. as the Pininfarina Spider Azzurra and in Europe as the Pininfarina Spidereuropa
1985 – Production of the model line ended after nearly 200,000 Spiders had been built, three-quarters of which were for the U.S. market
November 2015 – Legendary nameplate returns nearly 50 years later with the global debut of the 2017 Fiat 124 Spider at the Los Angeles Auto Show