Turin italy now an entertainment complex the lingotto building was once an avant garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.
Fiat factory test track on roof.
The factory s best known symbol is the test track which is a superb piece of design modelling and construction that occupies the whole roof surface of the workshops.
Unlike any other automobile factory to date the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked.
This old factory has a famous test track with high banked corners on the roof of the buil.
From street level this huge arcade of shops concert halls and.
One side of the fiat race track on the roof has been filled with tar presumably to prevent leakage through the ceiling.
Fiat s lingotto factory was completed in 1923.
The lingotto building in turin italy is a massive half kilometer long reinforced concrete structure five stories tall that once housed the largest and most modern car manufacturing plant in europe.
The rooftop racetrack of fiat s lingotto factory.
However the fiat test track remains on the roof in well maintain condition after nearly 100 years of weathering.
The track featured is a real race track built on the roof of a fiat factorythat opened in turin s ligotto district in 1923.
However the other side still displays the original bricks used to form the rooftop test track.
The factory s assembly line began at the ground floor and ended on the.
Video report of my visit to the old fiat lingotto factory in turin.