Test Track On Roof

However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering.

Test track on roof.

The building has been modernized to fit today s architectural design standards. Head for the uci cinema and or follow the red arrows on the floor for the pinacoteca agnelli actual name is. Finished cars emerged at rooftop level to go onto the test track. The fiat factory in turin that has a test track on the roof.

The building is also featured in the fourth episode of the 20th season of the amazing race originally aired in the us on march 11. Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory. 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.

Enter the lingotto building via any entrance and head to the 1st floor which is the 8 gallery shopping mall. The roof top test track at lingotto was not a novelty or an afterthought but an integral part of the manufacturing process. This may sound little unusual but their exists a factory whose test track is on its roof top. The lingotto building in turin italy once housed a fiat factory.

Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923. The original lingotto rooftop test track features briefly in the getaway sequence in the film the italian job 1969. In turin italy the fiat car factory has a rooftop test track. This is the old fiat factory test track on top of a building in turin italy wikimedia commons.

Perhaps inspired by lingotto and the palacio chrysler or just as likely due to the complaints of locals who didn t want their town used as an automotive proving grounds in 1928 impéria built an almost 1 km long banked test track on the perimeter of the sawtooth factory roof running down to ground level where it circled the employee soccer pitch and then ran back up a section elevated on. The rooftop track was retained and can still be visited today on the top floor. 13 june 2019 tom beck. As it turns out the factory that comes out with this marvelous piece of engineering is fiat s factory based in lingotto italy.

That entire lingotto test track scene can be viewed in the video from the movie below. Lingotto is the site of the oval lingotto the speed skating venue for the 2006 winter olympics. Construction started in 1916 and the building opened in 1923. A clip from the programme about factory production line workers.

The lingotto factory featured a unique upward spiral assembly line.