In 1919, Genoa’s Giovanni Ansaldo & Co. decided to switch its Turin aircraft factory over to car production. Its first model, the 4A, combined admirable mechanicals with a sparkling engine with overhead timing. Light, nimble and fast, its modernity and striking...
In 1919, three brothers, Maurizio, Giacomo and Carlo Temperino, set up a factory in Turin to build small, two-seater runabouts powered by a two-cylinder air-cooled engine. The 8/10 HP was the firm’s first model and enjoyed a certain measure of success, both in Italy...
or about ten years, this was perhaps the world’s most refined car, a rival of Rolls-Royce’s and Hispano-Suiza’s models as the status symbol chosen by the celebrities of the hour. Designed by Giustino Cattaneo, its trump card was its powerful straight-eight engine, a...
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