The Fiat 24-32 HP was introduced by the Italian automobile manufacturer

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in 1901. The car was designed to allow coachbuilders to make various 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

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. The Fiat 24-32 HP featured some important technological innovations: it was the first sedan car to use a "Landaulet" body type and was the first car to have an accelerator pedal and a gearbox with four forward gears. The road model could achieve a top speed of . In 1902, Fiat introduced a racing version of the 24 HP, The 24 HP Corsa. This was the first car ever to be specially designed for racing rather than derived from a series production automobile. The Corsa had a full steel chassis rather than the wood chassis that dominated at the time, and a twin-engine block 7238 cc developing 40 hp. Weighing in at just , it ran at speeds in excess of , a very high speed in those days. This car dominated its competitors from its first release into competition. The car won the Côte-Superga Sassi race, near Turin, on June 29 and July 27, 1902, with

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driving, and the Susa - Col du Mont-Cenis race at an average speed of .

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