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 with a 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 75 kilometres per hour (47 mph).[1]
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 450 kilograms (992 lb), it exceeded the speed of 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph), 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 44.16 kilometres per hour (27.44 mph).
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