Fiat 24-32 HP
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| Fiat 24-32 HP | |
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| Assembly |  Corso Dante plant, Turin, Italy
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| Manufacturer | Fiat |
| Production | 1903-1905 around 400 produced |
| Class | Luxury car |
| Layout | FR layout |
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| Engine | 6371 cc straight-4 6902 cc straight-4 7363 cc straight-4 |
| Transmission | 4-speed manual |
| Length | 4000mm-4380mm |
| Width | 1430mm |
| Height | 2350mm |
| Weight | 1700kg |
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| Predecessor | Fiat 12 HP |
| Successor | Fiat 16-20 HP |
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The Fiat Fiat 24-32 HP was introduced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat in 1903. The car was designed to allow coachbuilders to make bodies to it, it was offered with 3 different wheelbases, short, medium and long.
It was equipped with 4-cylinder engine:
- 1st series with a 6371 cc engine - 32 hp
- 2nd series in 1904 with a 6902 cc engine - 32 hp
- 3rd series in 1905 witha 7363 cc engine - 32 hp
It was be made of more than 400 copies in the plant Corso Dante in Turin.
This featured some important technological innovations: it was first sedan car to use a "Landaulet" body type, fisrt car to have gas pedal and a gearbox with 4 forward gears. The road model could achieve top speed of 75km/h.
In 1902 Fiat introduced racing version the 24 HP 1902 Corsa. This car was the first car in history to be a real race car, specially designed for that purpose and not derived from a series production automobile. . The Corsa had a full steel chassis rather than wood that dominated at the time, a twin-engine block 7238 cc developing 40 hp. Weighing in at just 450kg, it exceeded the speed of 100km/h, which was very high speed of those days. This car dominated all of its competitors since its first release in competition. The car won the race côte-Superga Sassi, near Turin on June 29, 1902 and July 27, with Vincenzo Lancia driving, the race Susa - Col du Mont-Cenis at the average speed of 44.16km/h.
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| City car | 3,5 HP | 500 A / 500 B (Topolino) ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Small family car | 6 HP 8 HP 10 HP |
509 / 509 S | 508 (Ballila) | Ballila 1100 A / B ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Family car | 1 | 1A / Zero | 70 | 501 / 501 S / 502 / 503 | 514 / 515 | 1500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Large family car | Brevetti | 2 | 2B | 505 | 507 | 518 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 HP / 16-20 HP / 16-24 HP | 15-25 HP Brevetti | 520 / 521 | 522 / 524 | 527 | 2800 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Executive car | 20-30 HP | 3 | 3A / 3Ter | 510 | 512 | 525 / 525 S | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 24-32 HP / 60 HP | 28-40 HP / 30-45 HP / 50 HP | 4 / 5 / 6 | 520 "Superfiat" | 519 / 519 S | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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