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Fiat Mephistopheles

Field	Value
name	Mephistopheles
image	2011-03-04 Autosalon Genf 1380.JPG
manufacturer	Fiat
production	1923
assembly	Arpajon, France
predecessor	Fiat SB4
successor	Fiat S61
class	Land speed record
body_style	Open-Wheeler
layout	Front Engine, RWD
engine	21706 cc Fiat A.12 Inline 6
transmission	4-speed Manual
wheelbase	3683 mm
length	5112 mm
width	1766 mm
height	1666 mm
weight	3175 kg
related	Fiat SB4
designer	Ernest Eldridge
sp	uk
powerout	320 PS @ 1,800 rpm
2390 N.m

2390 N.m The Fiat Mephistopheles (known in Italian as Mefistofele) is a one-off racing car created by Ernest A.D. Eldridge in 1923 by combining a Fiat racing car chassis and Fiat aeroplane engine. The name is from the demon of the same name. The name alluded to the infernal noise emitted from the unmuffled engine, and it was "baptised" by the Frenchmen.

Eldridge broke the World Land Speed Record on 12 July 1924 with the Mephistopheles, by driving at 234.98 km/h in Arpajon, France. The last car to set a land speed record on a public road.

The Mephistopheles was created by combining the chassis of the 1908 Fiat SB4 with a 6-cylinder, 21706 cc Fiat A.12 aeroplane engine producing 320 PS.

Mephistopheles was restored over 5 years, with another example of the same engine, and returned in 2011 with a display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. File:Fiat mefistofele cropped once more.jpg File:2011-03-04 Autosalon Genf 1376.JPG File:2011-03-04 Autosalon Genf 1377.JPG File:2011-03-04 Autosalon Genf 1378.JPG File:2011-03-04 Autosalon Genf 1379.JPG File:Centro Storico Fiat.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele (35813626994).jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele (36648466385).jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele (36648467015).jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele (36648468115).jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 10.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 11.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 12.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 14.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 15.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 16.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 17.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 19.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 2.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 20.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 5.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 6.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 7.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele 8.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele front1.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele front2.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele logo1.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele logo2.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele rear.jpg File:Fiat Mefistofele.jpg File:Mefistofele Eldridge Centro Storico Fiat.jpg

References

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110618220248/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motoringvideo/8566579/Goodwood-2011-the-mighty-Mephistopheles-returns.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 June 2011

| access-date = 10 April 2019

References

Crooke, Jon. "the CAR FIAT MEFISTOFELE 1923". Bigscalemodels.com.
"FIAT MEFISTOFELE". Fiat.
"Fiat Mephistopheles specs, performance data".
"1923 Fiat Mephistopheles Specifications".

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