Lingotto
Theatre building in Turin, ItalyWikipedia
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Oct 19, 2026
Sofia BettizaHOST
Michele Masneri is an Italian journalist and author.
Michele MasneriSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think that the Lingotto is one of the only three or four buildings in the world ever built with a car test track on the roof.
Sofia BettizaHOST
The factory below the racetrack, stretched out like a concrete ocean liner, had taken seven years to build.
Rachel SandersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Lingotto in English means the golden ingot.
Michele MasneriSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was the symbol of the industrial power of the family.
Sofia BettizaHOST
It's been inspired by a trip Giovanni made to Detroit 11 years earlier when he had seen Henry Ford's Model T plant, along with its revolutionary assembly line.
Sofia BettizaHOST
The Lingotto is even larger, with room for 12,000 workers.
Andrea ColliSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Giovanni had an obsession with mass production.
Sofia BettizaHOST
But there is one notable reminder.
Rachel SandersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There is this extraordinary wedding cake, which was several metres long, in the shape of the Lingotto in Turin.
Sofia BettizaHOST
A cake in the shape of Fiat's iconic former car factory.
Rachel SandersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
in this golden coloured icing of the cake with Fiat's most famous cars, the Fiat 500, the little Cinquecento, round the side of the cake.