Fiat Roof Test Track

The lingotto building in turin italy once housed a fiat factory.

Fiat roof test track.

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 lot of reviews complain that it is hard to find the fiat test track as featured in the italian job film as it is not sign posted so here are detailed directions. 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 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. 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. One of the shooting. Equipped with a test track of slightly over a mile long it was used for testing cars and inviting the high society of argentina to look at them.

The inside of the track had a capacity for 3000. Video report of my visit to the old fiat lingotto factory in turin. Enter the lingotto building via any entrance and head to the 1st floor which is the 8 gallery shopping mall. This old factory has a famous test track with high banked corners on the roof of the buil.

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. The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923.