The Simca 8 Sport was designed by Stabilimenti Farina (the family of 'Pinin' Farina) for the Cisitalia 202 and exhibited at the 1948 Motor Show. The same design was adapted for the Ferrari 166 (1949). The Cisitalia was built by Vignale as Farina did not have capacity and Vignale adapted it for the Fiat 1100. The Simca 8 shared its chassis with the Fiat, so it was easy to create the Simca 8 Sport. Simca did not have capacity to build an aluminium sports car and thus commissioned Facel Metallon to produce both cabriolet and coupe versions beginning in 1950. The Simca 8 Sport was an expensive car, but benefitted from an 1,221cc engine tuned to give 50bhp instead of 40bhp for the sedan. The Series I Simca 8 Sport cars had a split windscreen but from December 1950 Coupe versions had a one-piece windscreen. From April 1952 a new Simca 9 Sport model replaced the Eight, but this was longer and was a monocoque bodyshell in place of the separate chassis.