Fiat Test Track On Rooftop

Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked.

Fiat test track on rooftop. 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. A rooftop test track on the subject of vehicle testing the lingotto building in turin was also once a car factory owned by fiat. The building has been modernized to fit today s architectural design standards. Construction started in 1916 and the building opened in 1923.

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. 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. However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering. The fiat race track is featured in a getaway sequence in the film.

That entire lingotto test track scene can be viewed in the video from the movie below. Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923. The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923. Fiat rooftop test track in turin 1920s 1920s vintage 26 november 2019 0.

The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the. Head to the enormous lingotto building right next to the lingotto metro. It was a work of genius.