We all have preferences in terms of automobiles, however regardless of our different tastes, we share one thing in widespread: we’re all fanatics. So seeing an deserted manufacturing unit is all the time unhappy, particularly understanding that it is the place employees put collectively the automobiles a few of us loved again within the day.

A brand new walkaround video goes deep inside a Fiat manufacturing unit left useless since 2011. Even although the meeting plant in Termini Imerese shut down greater than a decade in the past, you wouldn’t essentially know, because the tools continues to be there. Some of the preferred fashions have been constructed there, together with the long-lasting 500 and the lovable Panda. The manufacturing unit in Sicily had been operational since 1970 and likewise used to supply the Fiat 126, Punto, and the Lancia Ypsilon.

The final automobile to roll off the road was a Lancia in November 2011, and but it seems as if it wouldn’t take a lot effort to renew manufacturing. In most instances, factories are emptied shortly after the power closes, however the former Fiat plant close to Palermo appears to have been left untouched. It had a most annual manufacturing capability of 140,000 models, however earlier than Fiat shut it down, lower than 40 p.c of that capability was being utilized. Consequently, the manufacturing unit – using some 1,800 folks – was bleeding cash.

According to the person with the digicam, the manufacturing unit has since been offered, and it is not accessible. It had exchanged arms just a few occasions, the final time when Italian firm Blutec purchased it to make electrical automobiles. However, that by no means occurred, resulting from fraud amounting to €16 million.

It’s allegedly being stripped down earlier than being demolished, thus placing a tragic finish to a as soon as flourishing meeting plant.