Fiat Auto S.p.a.

Luigi Filtri

Luigi Prato

Romolo Gandiglio

Lamberto Melotti

Luciano Possetti

A motor car includes a body, an electrical supply, an electric drive unit, a steering system, a parking brake and a control unit inside the body for causing the drive unit to be activated by the electrical supply. The motor car also includes a control unit outside the body for operating the drive unit, the control unit constituting an external control for enabling parking manoeuvres in restricted spaces.

Electrically-driven motor car with an externally-operated parking device

The device consists of a moderately pretensioned wire cable which connects the opposing vehicle body sides together. The cable is fixed by means of a pair of opposing reinforcement plates of relatively large surface area that are welded and/or screwed to the vehicle body. The cable passes about the steering column in such a manner as to limit its rearward movement in case of a frontal impact between the vehicle and an obstacle and/or another vehicle and to simultaneously limit the movement of the body sides away from each other.

Device for limiting the collapse of a vehicle structure on frontal impact

A body element for the production of modular bodies for use in the manufacture of cars of the same model or different models, with specific wheelbases, tracks, styles, versions and power units. The body element comprises a common horizontal floor and means selectively applicable to the floor to extend and reduce the body element longitudinally and transversely.

Modular body element for motor cars

A device comprising a movable panel, designed to support a stabilizer by means of at least one rib; an opening in the car bodywork, the edge of which opening presents substantially the same shape as the stabilizer contour and the aforementioned panel contour; and actuating means designed to move the aforementioned panel from a first position, wherein the upper surface of the stabilizer is substantially flush with the edge of the opening which is thus closed off by the aforementioned stabilizer, into a second position wherein the panel is arranged substantially flush with the edge of the opening which is thus closed off by the aforementioned panel.

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Torino, Italy

Luigi Filtri