- Fiat Turbina
Fiat Turbina was a 1954 model of car produced by Italian manufacturer
Fiat . It was designed as a sports car.In 1954 Fiat was the first car manufacturer in Europe to introduce a car propelled by a gas turbine. The project took a long period of planning, studies began in 1948 and ended with a track test in 1954 on the track of the
Lingotto . The engine had two compressor stages, one turbine stage, power turbine was single stage with a geared reduction. The declared power was Convert|300|hp|kW|-1|abbr=on at 22.000 rpm, and the estimated top speed was approximately Auto kmh|250.The Fiat Turbina is found today in the
Automobile Museum of Turin .
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