VM Motori

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VM Motori SpA
legal form Spa
founding 1947
Seat Cento , ItalyItalyItaly 
Branch Engine construction
Website www.vmmotori.it

View into the VM Motori test site, visible a Jeep and a Lancia as test vehicles

VM Motori SpA is a diesel engine manufacturer founded in 1947 in Cento , Province of Ferrara , Italy. The company name goes back to the last names of the two founders (Vancini, Martelli). In addition to vehicle engines, VM Motori also produces industrial and marine engines.

history

Since 2007, half of the VM shares have been held by Penske Corporation and General Motors . Fiat Powertrain took over the Penske shares in 2011 . In October 2013, VM Motori was completely taken over by Fiat .

Products

For a long time, the characteristic feature of the diesel engine range was the use of individual, free-standing, dry cylinder liners , each of which had either its own cylinder head for each cylinder or a common cylinder head. This modularization enabled great flexibility in the development of engines with different numbers of cylinders in the sense of a construction kit .

In 1988 Land Rover used a 2.4 liter VM Motori diesel engine in the Range Rover . This project ran under the project name "Beaver". The Rover 2400 SD Turbo , built from 1982 to 1985, also had a diesel engine made in Italy.

The company's customers include Chrysler , Ford , LTI , General Motors , Alfa Romeo and Rover . So is z. B. the Jeep Wrangler JK (from 2007) with a 2.8-liter VM diesel engine. The Chrysler Voyager type "ES" and "GS" were also manufactured in Austria with a VM engine for the European market.

For the Maserati Ghibli (Tipo M157) , which came onto the market in August 2013, VM Motori contributes the 3.0-liter six-cylinder diesel engine with 275 hp and 600 Nm torque.

Web links

Commons : VM Motori  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fiat Powertrain acquires 50 percent stake from Penske Corporation in VM Motori SpA Fiat Group Automobiles Germany AG, accessed on July 20, 2011 .
  2. ^ Fiat Group completes acquisition of VM Motori , October 28, 2013
  3. ↑ Tribune - AN ICON WILL BE 40! (PDF; 3.7 MB) Land Rover, November 14, 2010, archived from the original on July 19, 2014 ; Retrieved November 10, 2012 .
  4. ^ Maseratis Ghibli against German top dogs. www.ntv.de, accessed on June 20, 2013 .