Fiat Factory Roof Test Track
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.
Fiat factory roof test track. Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked. One of the shooting. Fiat s roof top test track. 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.
From street level this huge arcade of shops concert halls and. Turin italy now an entertainment complex the lingotto building was once an avant garde auto factory with a test track on the roof. The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923. Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923.