Test Track On Roof

The fiat race track is featured in a getaway sequence in the film.

Test track on roof.

That entire lingotto test track scene can be viewed in the video from the movie below. In 1928 five years after chrysler s current part owners fiat inaugurated their stunning lingotto plant chrysler s argentine distributors opened a. A film that came out in 1969. It was the largest car factory in the world at that time.

The original lingotto rooftop test track was featured the italian job. The roof top test track at lingotto was not a novelty or an afterthought but an integral part of the manufacturing process. It s nothing special and the majority of shops carry very average stuff. 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.

Finished cars emerged at rooftop level to go onto the test track. 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. The lingotto factory featured a unique upward spiral assembly line. March 2015 ask biddy 10 about 8 gallery lingotto torino.

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. Might not have been your first thought but that s exactly what at least three car companies did in italy argentina and belgium. The building has been modernized to fit today s architectural design standards. 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. The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923. The amazing secret rooftop test track. 80 different models of car were produced there in its lifetime including the fiat topolino of 1936.