Fiat Test Track On Roof

The design by young architect matté trucco was unusual in that it had five floors with raw materials going in at the ground floor and cars built on a line that went up through the building.

Fiat test track on roof. However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering. Fiat rooftop test track in turin 1920s 1920s vintage 26 november 2019 0. The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923. Worth the visit is the pinoteca.

Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked. One of the shooting. Located in the heart of the city its original owners fiat made clever use of the available real estate by building a high speed test track on the building s unusual banked rooftop where thousands of fiats underwent testing once they came out at the end of the assembly line. However the other side still displays the original bricks used to form the rooftop test track.

It s nothing special and the majority of shops carry very average stuff. The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the. View of fiat lingotto factory with test track on the roof in 1928 spiral roadway to move cars up to a higher level of the former fiat lingotto factory in turin lingotto is a district of turin italy and the location of the lingotto building on the via nizza. The lingotto building in turin italy once housed a fiat factory.

Fiat rooftop test track interesting but not really worthwhile. You may recognise this distinctive fiat test track on top of the building from a scene in the 1969 film the italian job with michael caine which was filmed in turin. Don t waste your time. The building itself gets a star due to the ingenuity of turning an old fiat.