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The Stabilimento di Mirafiori (in English: Mirafiori Factory) is the headquarters and industrial district of the Italian automobile manufacturer
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, a subsidiary of
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, which is part of
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, and is the headquarters of
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Group. The name Mirafiori derives from the homonymous district in which it is located (in turn derived from the name of an ancient castle of the Savoy). In the past, it was the largest Italian industrial complex. It is the oldest automobile factory in Europe and is still partially in operation today. It occupies an area of 2,000,000 m². Twenty kilometres of railway lines and 11 kilometres of underground roads link the various warehouses. The office building, which overlooks Corso Giovanni Agnelli, is a 5-storey building 220 metres long, covered with white Finale stone. The self-contained electricity production of the plant was around 210 GWh/year in 2011. Today around 18,000 employees work in the area and in 2012 about 41,600 cars were produced. Currently it produces the
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,
Maserati Levante The Maserati Levante (''Tipo M161'') is an executive crossover SUV produced by Italian manufacturer Maserati at the Mirafiori factory in Turin from 2016. The Levante went on sale in Europe in May 2016, and in North America in September 2016. Prod ...
luxury SUV, Maserati Ghibli sport sedan and
Maserati Quattroporte The Maserati Quattroporte () is a four-door full-size luxury sedan produced by Italian automobile manufacturer Maserati. The name translated from Italian means " four doors". The production of the sixth generation ended in late 2023, with the ...
luxury sedan. In the more than 80 years since inauguration, over 35 types of cars and 28.7 million vehicles have been produced at the Mirafiori plant.


History

It was inaugurated on 15 May 1939 in the presence of
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, but the Duce found himself speaking in a cold climate of workers, marked by the increase in
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due to the politics of autarchy and the fear of the imminent war, which point to leave the stage when a question addressed to the crowd was answered only by a few hundred people out of the 50,000 present. The first model that would have been produced was the Fiat 700, a project left unfinished due to the outbreak of the
Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
. Car production really started only in 1947 with the second series of the Fiat 500 B “Topolino” and the relocation of the lines of the
Fiat 1100 The Fiat 1100 is a small family car produced from 1953 until 1969 by the Italian manufacturer Fiat. It was an all-new unibody replacement for the Fiat 1100 E, which descended from the pre-war, body-on-frame Fiat 508 C Balilla 1100. The 1100 was ...
, previously built at the
Lingotto Lingotto is a building complex on Via Nizza in Turin, Italy. It once housed a car factory built by Italian automotive company Fiat and today houses the administrative headquarters of the manufacturer and a multipurpose centre projected by arc ...
factory. On 5 March 1943 a workers' strike began in the workshop 19 of the factory. In a few days 100,000 workers crossed their arms: it was the first major worker rebellion that would soon spread to all the factories in Northern Italy. Passed into history as the "strikes of March 1943", it marked the beginning of the collapse of the fascist regime and represented the first vocal episode of the anti-fascist resistance. Seriously damaged by air raids during the
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, the factory was rebuilt and expanded with a development project that culminated with the doubling of capacity, completed in 1958. Starting from the post-war period, the design of the most advanced Fiat products (cars, industrial vehicles, aeronautical engines, aircraft, etc.) was concentrated in the office building and the plant became the site of the greatest industrial development in Turin (new welfare, and inevitably also of great social tensions). In 1956 the expansion called "Mirafiori-Sud" was inaugurated, where the activities of sheet metal stamping and mechanical machining (engines and gearboxes) were located and expanded, while in the original area (now called Mirafiori-Nord) there remained the paving, the painting, the assembly, the finishing and the test track, as well as minor workings. In 1969, in full economic expansion, great agitation due to the three-year term of the metalworkers' work contract gave rise to the
Hot Autumn The Hot Autumn () of 1969–70 is a term used for a series of large Strike action, strikes in the factories and industrial centers of Northern Italy, in which workers demanded better pay and better conditions. During 1969 and 1970 there were ...
. The contractual claims joined the students' demands, giving life to a movement that would shake Italy for over a decade. Years later,
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, with a gesture of strong emblematic value, and not just within the
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, would speak at the gates of Mirafiori, occupied by the workers: "That" top action "is realized with increasing separateness among the levels of the organization: the top managers of professional politicians, a consolidated class of local administrators, the grassroots militants, the last representatives of a communist people spread among work, trade unions, commitment in and for the party". In the early 1970s the plant was upgraded to accommodate the production lines of a very important model for the Fiat range: the
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sedan that, to honour the plant that reached the peak of production and technology in those years, was named the 131 Mirafiori and it was the first model to reintroduce a numerical alpha denomination. The 131 was produced from 1974 to 1983 with 1,513,800 units sold. In October 2001 production of the
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started after the closure of the Fiat Rivalta plant. In 2002 Fiat relocated the production of Lancia Lybra and
Alfa Romeo 166 The Alfa Romeo 166 (Type 936) is an executive car produced by the Italian automaker Alfa Romeo, between 1996 and June 2007. The car was designed by Centro Stile Alfa Romeo, under the control of Walter de Silva, and was facelifted in September 2 ...
. In 2003 Mirafiori plant started producing the
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minivan and the sister
Lancia Musa The Lancia Musa (Type 350) is a five-passenger compact MPV manufactured by Fiat S.p.A., Fiat, and marketed by the company's Lancia subdivision for model years 2004 through to 2012. A front-engine, front-wheel-drive, five-door design and a modified ...
and in 2006 started the second assembly line of the
Fiat Grande Punto The Fiat Punto is a supermini car (B-segment) produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat from 1993 to 2018, spanning over three generations. The third generation of the car was marketed between 2005 and 2009 as the Grande Punto, and between 2009 a ...
. Production of the Grande Punto stopped in 2007 and the assembly line was converted to produce the
Alfa Romeo Mito The Alfa Romeo MiTo (Type 955) is a front-wheel drive, three-door B-segment, supermini designed by Centro Stile Alfa Romeo and first presented in 2008 at Castello Sforzesco in Milan with an international introduction at the British Motor Show in ...
and many components for the Abarth Grande Punto. On 18 February 2008 the new
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headquarters was inaugurated in the Officina 83 area, while the new Abarth 500 was also presented during the inauguration of the same. In July 2012, production of Fiat Idea and Lancia Musa ceased. In 2016, production started of the
Maserati Levante The Maserati Levante (''Tipo M161'') is an executive crossover SUV produced by Italian manufacturer Maserati at the Mirafiori factory in Turin from 2016. The Levante went on sale in Europe in May 2016, and in North America in September 2016. Prod ...
luxury sport utility. In summer 2018, the last Alfa Romeo Mito was built. In November 2018 FCA announced that the production of the Fiat 500 Electric was planned for 2020. In July 2019 FCA started investing 788 million euros into building electric
Fiat 500e The Fiat 500e (project 332), also known as the 500 elettrica or New 500 is a hybrid or battery-electric car by Italian manufacturer Fiat as the third generation of its 500 city cars, following the original 500 (1957–1975) and second-genera ...
. As of 2022, the Fiat 500e and the Maserati Levante are produced in Mirafiori.


Vehicle produced in Mirafiori

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Fiat 500 "Topolino" The Fiat 500, commonly known as "Topolino" (), is an Italian city car produced and manufactured by Fiat from 1936 to 1955. The name ''Topolino'' is , and is also the Italian name for Mickey Mouse. History The Topolino was one of the smallest ...
- (1947-1955) *
Fiat 1100 The Fiat 1100 is a small family car produced from 1953 until 1969 by the Italian manufacturer Fiat. It was an all-new unibody replacement for the Fiat 1100 E, which descended from the pre-war, body-on-frame Fiat 508 C Balilla 1100. The 1100 was ...
- (1947-1953) *
Fiat 1400 The Fiat 1400 and Fiat 1900 are passenger cars produced by Italian automotive manufacturer Fiat from 1950 to 1958 and from 1952 to 1959 respectively. The two models shared body and platform, but while the 1.4-litre 1400 was Fiat's intermediate of ...
- (1950) * Fiat 1900 - (1952) * Fiat 1100/103 - (1953-1970) *
Fiat 600 The Fiat 600 (, ) is a small, rear-engined city car and Economy car, economy family car made by Italian carmaker Fiat Automobiles, Fiat from 1955 to 1969 — offered in two-door fastback sedan and four-door Multipla mini MPV body styles. The 60 ...
- (1955-1969) *
Fiat 500 The Fiat 500 (, ) is an Economy car, economy / city car that was manufactured and marketed by Fiat Automobiles from 1957 until 1975. It was sold as a two-door semi-convertible or saloon car and as a three-door panel van or estate car. Launched ...
- (1957-1972) *
Fiat 1200 Fiat 1200 was the name of three distinct models produced by Italian car manufacturer Fiat, all based on Fiat 1100 mechanicals. The first two were introduced in 1957, and replaced the TV (Turismo Veloce) variants at the top of the Fiat 1100 range: ...
- (1957) * Fiat 1800 - (1959) * Fiat 2100 - (1959) *
Fiat 1300 The Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500 are a series of front-engine, rear-drive automobiles manufactured and marketed by Fiat from 1961 to 1967, replacing the Fiat 1400 and Fiat 1200 coupé, spyder and cabriolet. The 1300 and 1500 were essentially identi ...
- (1961) * Fiat 1500 - (1961) *
Fiat 2300 The Fiat 2300 is a Straight-six engine, six-cylinder executive car which was produced by Italy, Italian automotive manufacturer Fiat between 1961 and 1968. The 2300 was made as Sedan (car), saloon (styled by Dante Giacosa), Station wagon, estate ca ...
- (1961) *
Fiat 850 The Fiat 850 (''Tipo 100G'') is a small rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive car manufactured and marketed by Italian car manufacturer Fiat from 1964 to 1973. History Overview Its technical design was an evolution o ...
- (1964) *
Fiat 124 The Fiat 124 is a small family car manufactured and marketed by Italian company Fiat between 1966 and 1974. The saloon superseded the Fiat 1300 and spawned station wagon, four-seater coupé (Fiat 124 Sport Coupé, 124 Sport Coupé), and two-seate ...
- (1966-1974) *
Fiat 125 The Fiat 125 is a large family car manufactured and marketed by Italian company Fiat from 1967 to 1972. Derivatives were built under license outside Italy until the 1990s. As launched the car was unusual in blending saloon car passenger accommodat ...
- (1967-1972) *
Fiat 127 The Fiat 127 is a supermini car produced by Italian car manufacturer Fiat Automobiles, Fiat from 1971 to 1983. It was introduced in 1971 as the replacement for the Fiat 850. Production of the 127 in Italy ended in 1983 following the introduction o ...
- (1971-1983) *
Fiat 131 The Fiat 131 is a mid-size family car manufactured and marketed by Fiat from 1974 to 1984 after its debut at the Turin Motor Show#1974, 1974 Turin Motor Show. Available as a two-door and four-door Saloon (car), saloon and 5-door station wagon, ...
- (1974-1983) *
Fiat Panda The Fiat Panda is a city car manufactured and marketed by Fiat Automobiles, Fiat since 1980, currently in its third generation. The first generation Panda, introduced in 1980 as the Mk1, was a Car body configurations#Two-box design, two-box, thr ...
- (1980-2003) *
Fiat Uno The Fiat Uno is a supermini manufactured and marketed by Fiat. Launched in 1983, the Uno was produced over a single generation (with an intermediate facelift, 1989) in three and five-door hatchback body styles until 1995 in Europe — and un ...
- (1983-1995) *
Fiat Croma The Fiat Croma name was used for two distinct large family cars by Fiat, one a five door liftback manufactured and marketed from 1985 to 1996, and after a nine-year hiatus, a crossover station wagon manufactured and marketed from 2004 to 2010. ...
- (1985-1996) *
Lancia Thema The Lancia Thema (Type 834) is an executive car produced by the Italian automaker Lancia between 1984 and 1994, and one of four cars to share the Type Four platform alongside the Alfa Romeo 164, Fiat Croma and Saab 9000. The Thema was first sh ...
- (1984-1994) *
Autobianchi Y10 The Autobianchi Y10 is a supermini car, supermini and economy car manufactured from 1985 to 1995 and marketed under the Lancia brand in most export markets (as Lancia Y10). The car was manufactured at Fiat's Autobianchi plant in Desio, Milan unt ...
- (1985-1995) * Fiat Punto (176) - (1993-1999) *
Fiat Marea The Fiat Marea (Type 185) is a small family car available as a sedan (car), saloon and an station wagon, estate, produced by the Italian automaker Fiat. Launched in September 1996, the Marea models were essentially different body styles of Fiat's ...
- (1996-2003) *
Fiat Multipla The Fiat Multipla (Type 186) is a six-seater car produced by Italian automaker Fiat from 1998 to 2010. Based on the Bravo/Brava, the Multipla was shorter and wider than its rivals. It had two rows of three seats, where its compact MPV competi ...
- (1998-2010) * Fiat Punto (188) - (1999-2010) * Lancia Lybra - (2002-2005) *
Lancia Thesis The Lancia Thesis (Type 841) is a full-size car produced by Italian automaker Lancia between 2001 and 2009. It was available with naturally aspirated and turbocharged engines ranging between 2.0 and 3.2 litres in both straight-5 or V6 configurati ...
- (2002-2007) *
Alfa Romeo 166 The Alfa Romeo 166 (Type 936) is an executive car produced by the Italian automaker Alfa Romeo, between 1996 and June 2007. The car was designed by Centro Stile Alfa Romeo, under the control of Walter de Silva, and was facelifted in September 2 ...
- (2002-2007) *
Fiat Idea The Fiat Idea is a car manufactured and marketed by Fiat from 2003 to 2012 over a single generation with one intermediate Facelift (automotive), facelift. It is a five-passenger mini MPV with five doors. It has a front-engine, front-wheel drive l ...
- (2003-2012) *
Lancia Musa The Lancia Musa (Type 350) is a five-passenger compact MPV manufactured by Fiat S.p.A., Fiat, and marketed by the company's Lancia subdivision for model years 2004 through to 2012. A front-engine, front-wheel-drive, five-door design and a modified ...
- (2004-2012) *
Fiat Grande Punto The Fiat Punto is a supermini car (B-segment) produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat from 1993 to 2018, spanning over three generations. The third generation of the car was marketed between 2005 and 2009 as the Grande Punto, and between 2009 a ...
- (2005-2006) * Zastava 10 - (2005) *
Alfa Romeo MiTo The Alfa Romeo MiTo (Type 955) is a front-wheel drive, three-door B-segment, supermini designed by Centro Stile Alfa Romeo and first presented in 2008 at Castello Sforzesco in Milan with an international introduction at the British Motor Show in ...
- (2008-2018) *
Maserati Levante The Maserati Levante (''Tipo M161'') is an executive crossover SUV produced by Italian manufacturer Maserati at the Mirafiori factory in Turin from 2016. The Levante went on sale in Europe in May 2016, and in North America in September 2016. Prod ...
- (2016-2024) *
Fiat New 500 The Fiat 500e (project 332), also known as the 500 elettrica or New 500 is a hybrid or battery-electric car by Italian manufacturer Fiat as the third generation of its 500 city cars, following the Fiat 500, original 500 (1957–1975) and Fiat 5 ...
- (2020-present) * Maserati Ghibli - (2022–2023) *
Maserati Quattroporte The Maserati Quattroporte () is a four-door full-size luxury sedan produced by Italian automobile manufacturer Maserati. The name translated from Italian means " four doors". The production of the sixth generation ended in late 2023, with the ...
- (2022-2023) *
Maserati GranTurismo The Maserati GranTurismo and GranCabrio are a series of grand tourers produced by the Italian manufacturer Maserati, succeeding the maserati Coupe, Maserati Coupé and Spyder. The first generation GranTurismo (M145) was introduced at the 2007 Ge ...
- (2023-present)


References

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