Test Track On Roof

The amazing secret rooftop test track.

Test track on roof.

The roof top test track at lingotto was not a novelty or an afterthought but an integral part of the manufacturing process. The fiat race track is featured in a getaway sequence in the film. 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.

The first fiat s former lingotto factory in the middle of turin is fairly well known even to some folks who aren t car enthusiasts. Worth the visit is the pinoteca agnelli with some great old masters paintings on the 4th floor and offering access to the famous fiat test track on the roof of the building. They put test tracks on the roofs of their factories. A film that came out in 1969.

It s nothing special and the majority of shops carry very average stuff. The building has been modernized to fit today s architectural design standards. The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923. It was the largest car factory in the world at that time.

80 different models of car were produced there in its lifetime including the fiat topolino of 1936. The lingotto factory featured a unique upward spiral assembly line. For its time the lingotto building was avant garde influential and impressive le corbusier called it one of the most impressive sights in industry and a guideline for town planning. March 2015 ask biddy 10 about 8 gallery lingotto torino.

Might not have been your first thought but that s exactly what at least three car companies did in italy argentina and belgium. In 1928 five years after chrysler s current part owners fiat inaugurated their stunning lingotto plant chrysler s argentine distributors opened a. The building s ramp which was used to transport cars up to the roof of the old factory wikimedia commons you may recognise this distinctive fiat test track on top of the building from a scene in. The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the.