{"id":29774,"date":"2013-02-04T15:29:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=29774"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T11:31:55","slug":"fiat-turbina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/fiat-turbina\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiat Turbina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you think of Automotive futurism, its easy to believe that GM and other American company’s attempts to style the future in a kind of disney-flavoured, jetson-type image.<\/p>\n

But the truth is about futurism<\/a> that it was primarily an early 20th century, European form that was shot through with the properties of speed, progress and the wish to conquer new worlds.<\/p>\n

The apocalyptic events of the 1940s may have ended that first flush of industrial modernism and made the world recalbrate its desires and aspirations – but by the mid fifties the future was back in the minds of industrialists and the designers they employed.<\/p>\n

In 1954, then, Fiat, representing a creative nation rising from the ashes of the war, launched the Turbina, a gas turbine concept that fused the engineering chops of Luigi Fanio Rapi<\/a> with the panel beating prowess of the best metalworkers Turin could muster.<\/p>\n

It may have been a dead-end in terms of long lasting production cars, but the Turbina was an unbelievably bold statement, complete with rocket-ship like lines and sweeping fins. And this at a time when much of Europe was still gripped in grim austerity.<\/p>\n

The turbina one of the reasons we believe that these straightened times can still offer opportunities for brave design to shine.<\/p>\n\n\t\t