Otas Costruzione Automobilistiche

Otas Costruzione Automobilistiche
legal form
founding	1969
resolution	1971
Seat	Turin , Italy
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Otas from 1971

Otas Costruzione Automobilistiche (short: OTAS ) was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Turin-based company started producing automobiles in 1969. The brand name was Otas , short for Omologate Turismo Automobile Speciale . Production ended in 1971.

vehicles

The first model was a modification of the Lombardi Grand Prix , i.e. a small coupé with the rear-wheel drive technology of the Fiat 850 . A Fiat engine revised by Giannini provided the drive . The car was primarily intended for the US market. The displacement of the engine had been reduced to 820 cm³ in view of the American emissions regulations; the power amounted to 63 SAE - PS . Versions with 1.0 liter engines were also available for the European market.

The second model from the Otas brand was also a coupe, designed by Aldo Sessano's Studio Open Design . As the vehicle was based on the Autobianchi A112 , it was front-wheel drive . The available four-cylinder engines with 903 cm³ displacement had 44 to 59 hp. The design-related maximum speed was specified as 161 km / h. The new price was 1,600,000 lire .

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
Halwart Schrader and Georg Amtmann: Italian sports cars . Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01988-4 .
George Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)

Web links

Commons : Otas Costruzione Automobilistiche - Collection of images, videos and audio files

GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on February 12, 2012)

Individual evidence

^ Schrader, Amtmann: Italian Sports Cars, p. 378.

[1] Schrader, Amtmann: Italian Sports Cars, p. 378.