Fiat Roof Test Track

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

Fiat roof test track.

Enter the lingotto building via any entrance and head to the 1st floor which is the 8 gallery shopping mall. The inside of the track had a capacity for 3000. Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked. 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 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. Video report of my visit to the old fiat lingotto factory in turin. Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923. 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.

The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923. One of the shooting. The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the. Construction started in 1916 and the building opened in 1923.

This old factory has a famous test track with high banked corners on the roof of the buil. 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.