Quattroruote Secura is one of the projects of the leading Italian automotive publication Quattroroute to create a prototype of a safe car. The Italian coachbuilder OSI created the vehicle based on the Fiat 1500C and was shown at the 1965 Turin Motor Show. The first approach to the projectile was the PF Sigma concept developed by Pininfarina in conjunction with the Quattroroute in 1963.
Quattroruote, located in Rozzano, Milan, after many insistence on the need to improve safety on the roads of Italy, the authoritative magazine Quattroruote decided to move from words to deeds. In 1963 they contacted the Pininfarina designed company and began collaborating with Sigma. They were devoid of a mechanical prototype designed to meet the most significant possible number of security requirements, from concepts today fundamental to the deformability of the extremities and programmed cell resistant.
In 1965 Quattroruote took a further step forward and, in collaboration with OSI, who handled the completion of the prototype's material, helped design another car, and this time a running car. The vehicle responded directly to the need and requirement to provide a degree of safety to passengers, at least in comparison to the standards of the time. The Secura deliberately used the typical mechanical setup of the Fiat 1500C to reinforce their proactive industry. The car was displayed at the Turin Motor Show in 1965 and then went around the world, appearing in all the major automobile exhibitions for some years.
Also, in 1965, the automotive magazine (Quattroruote), sponsored by a project by the engineer Piazzi, worked to create a prototype to be exhibited at the Turin Motor Show. The car was named the Bikini and was a very spartan open vehicle. It was constructed around the mechanics of the Fiat 500 station wagon but modified to be front-wheel drive.
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