Video report of my visit to the old fiat lingotto factory in turin.
Fiat factory test track on roof.
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 track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923.
The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the.
Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923.
Turin italy now an entertainment complex the lingotto building was once an avant garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.
One side of the fiat race track on the roof has been filled with tar presumably to prevent leakage through the ceiling.
However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering.
From street level this huge arcade of shops concert halls and.
However the other side still displays the original bricks used to form the rooftop test track.
Two 443 metres straights joined by parabolic bends form a continuous track for testing the cars.
The rooftop racetrack of fiat s lingotto factory.
This old factory has a famous test track with high banked corners on the roof of the buil.
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.