Fiat 2800

The Fiat 2800 is a model of car produced by the Italian car manufacturer Fiat between 1938 and 1944. It took up the stylistic innovations of the 1500 C and was the last substantially new model to come out of the Fiat factories before the Second World War. It is said that Benito Mussolini proposed the design to Fiat's management because he wanted a flagship to contrast with the Mercedes-Benz of the time. Six cars were built in a six- to seven-seater torpedo version by the Farina factories for the garage of the Royal House at the Quirinal Palace, later used by the first presidents of the Republic, and King Vittorio Emanuele III had a Fiat 2800 imperial black car named Alcinoo. In 1939 the military 2800 CMC, Corta Militare Coloniale, was introduced for the Royal Army. The engine was a 2,852 cc straight-six with overhead valves giving 85 PS and a top speed of 130 km/h, and only 624 were built.