Fiat 24-32 HP

Infobox Automobile


name = Fiat 24-32 HP
aka =
assembly=Corso Dante plant, Turin, Italy
manufacturer = Fiat
production = 1903-1905
around 400 producedCite web|url=http://www.piemonte-online.com/Magazine/Auto1/Fiat1901-3.html|title=FIAT: modelli storici 1901- 1903|accessdate=2008-03-25|work=piemonte-online.com It icon]
class = Luxury car
layout = FR layout
body_style =
engine = 6371 cc straight-4
6902 cc straight-4
7363 cc straight-4
transmission = 4-speed manualCite web|url=http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z14645/Fiat_24/32_HP_Series_2.aspx|title=1905 Fiat 24/32 HP Series 2|accessdate=2008-03-25|work=conceptcarz.com]
length = convert|4000|mm|in|0|abbr=on-convert|4380|mm|in|0|abbr=on
width = convert|1430|mm|in|0|abbr=on
height = convert|2350|mm|in|0|abbr=on
weight = convert|1700|kg|lb|0|abbr=on
wheelbase =
predecessor = Fiat 12 HP
successor = Fiat 16-20 HP
related =
designer =

The Fiat 24-32 HP car was introduced by the Italian automobile manufacturer Fiat in 1903. The car was designed to allow coachbuilders to make bodies to fit. It was offered with three different wheelbases, short, medium and long. It was equipped with a 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

More than 400 were made in the Corso Dante plant in Turin.

The Fiat 24-32 HP featured some important technological innovations: it was first sedan car to use a "Landaulet" body type, first car to have an accelerator pedal and a gearbox with four forward gears. The road model could achieve a top speed of convert|75|km/h|mi/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, and a twin-engine block 7238 cc developing 40 hp. Weighing in at just convert|450|kg|lb|0, it exceeded the speed of convert|100|km/h|mi/h, which was a very high speed in those days. This car dominated all of its competitors from its first release in competition. The car won the Côte-Superga Sassi race, near Turin, on June 29, 1902 and July 27, with Vincenzo Lancia driving, and the Susa - Col du Mont-Cenis race at the average speed of convert|44.16|km/h|mi/h.

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