Fiat Test Track On Rooftop

It was a work of genius.

Fiat test track on rooftop.

Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923. The lingotto building in turin italy once housed a fiat factory. Head to the enormous lingotto building right next to the lingotto metro. The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the.

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. Construction started in 1916 and the building opened in 1923. Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked. The building has been modernized to fit today s architectural design standards.

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. New cars would slowly move from the ground. However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering.

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 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. How to get to the fiat factory rooftop unfortunately you can t drive around the test track but you can go up and visit it.