The Type 4 model, with a capacity of almost six liters, 53 HP, and a price that adequately matched its characteristics, cannot be said to be a popular car; actually, it is decidedly bourgeois. Even King Vittorio Emanuele III was to use one, with a “military Torpedo” coachwork, for his inspections during the First World War. The life of this model was, however, long and prosperous and animated by continuous development. This sober torpedo coachwork, which was directly produced by Fiat, was donated to the Museum by the Martini Garage (Ivrea). Some vehicles, on the other hand, were manufactured in the recently opened Poughkeepsie plant, in the State of New York: the production of Fiat models in this plant is on license, but the capital is entirely American.
