Turin is the center of automobile manufacturing in Italy and the center of automobile manufacturing in Europe. Cars made in Turin account for 40% of Europe's total production.

Turin's status as a car manufacturing center is also due to Fiat, the European automaker.

Although European countries are also supporting their own car manufacturing companies, Fiat's first-mover advantage and large-scale manufacturing still allow it to occupy the majority of the European car market.

Although in the passenger car market, automobile manufacturers in various countries continue to shorten the distance with Fiat, but with word of mouth and rich styles, it can still occupy a market share of 50%. Fiat remains the mountain of the European passenger car market and is something that other automakers need to catch up with.

If manufacturers in other countries of the passenger car market still have the idea of challenging their position, then in another area, Fiat has an unattainable presence: the European truck market. Unlike passenger cars, trucks need to be more about practicality. What is the load capacity, whether the failure rate is low or not, whether it can be easily maintained, whether the fuel consumption is high or not, etc., are all very practical problems.

As long as a truck is good in these aspects, then even if it is a little more expensive, those buyers will give priority to buying it.

With years of layout in trucks and the accumulation of technology, Fiat has become a well-deserved hegemon in the truck market. The United States, where the automobile industry is thriving, also bought Fiat trucks.

It can be said that seven out of every ten trucks in the world are currently from Fiat.

And Fiat did not bask in the splendor of the truck market, they were in the president of Giovanni. Under Agnelli's leadership, he has invested heavily in the research and development of automobiles. New axles, frames, suspensions, engines and all other parts of the car are trying to be developed better.

It is precisely this spirit that makes Fiat bigger and stronger, and more and more orders.

Especially now, when the situation in Europe is becoming increasingly tense, trucks are becoming more and more embodied as a means of transportation, so more orders are coming.

Of course, for orders, Fiat is naturally more and better.

And there are some orders that Fiat has to be treated with care, and that is the case today.

As the president of Fiat, Giovanni. Agnelli stood at the door of the company today, and behind him, the company's top management also gathered as if waiting for someone.

In the Italian economic circles, Giovanni. Agnelli is also a man of the hour, and his every move is watched at all times. And today, the president was waiting at the door in person, making Fiat's employees mutter, isn't there going to be some big shot?

For the muttering of private employees, of course, as a senior executive of Fiat, I don't care, although I am not a big man today, but I have a pivotal position in the development of the company. Because the German military delegation that is coming today is coming to Fiat for the purpose of inspecting Fiat F75 trucks.

This truck is a new model of Fiat's new model. The car is 9.1 meters long, 2.1 meters wide, 1.8 meters high, with a rear axle drive, and the empty weight is 3100 kg. It is equipped with an in-line water-cooled 6-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine with a maximum power of 75 hp and a maximum speed of 65 kilometers per hour. The standard load capacity is three tons, and it can tow a 3-ton heavy trailer.

The car is the culmination of Fiat's achievements over the years, and it is the best among trucks in terms of performance, reliability and ease of maintenance. The Italian Army has tested the vehicle before, and it has performed well on muddy roads, winding mountain roads, or potholes, making it a symbol of reliability.

The car's performance caused a sensation as soon as it was launched, and orders flew in like snowflakes. Fiat also deployed enough manpower to ensure that the production line for this model was at maximum rotation.

In addition to the popularity of the F75 truck, it has also attracted the attention of the military of various countries. The Italian military ordered a thousand for this and used it for themselves. What is even more rare is that the Austro-Hungarian military also ordered fifteen hundred.

In addition to its own and Austrians, the German military was also interested. Due to the previous failure in the development of the 75-mm rapid-fire gun, the German military could only choose the caliber to win, so there are currently a large number of 105, 120, and 150 guns in the German army.

Although the performance of these guns is powerful, it poses a serious problem, that is, each one is heavy. Each door is more than one ton, and many can reach the level of two or three tons.

In fact, when artillery reaches more than one ton, it is not easy to transport it. At present, the German army is equipped with a large number of 105 mm Type 09 light howitzers, for example, and its combat weight is 1225kg; The marching weight is 2320kg. To transport it, you need at least 18 horses. It is important to know that horses are actually very delicate, and if they are transported over too long distances, they are very prone to mass death. Not to mention the heavier cannon, which weighs more than three tons. As for the larger caliber of 120 mm, 150 mm and other guns, the weight is also leveraged.

Historically, Germany was able to carry these heavy artillery to penetrate Belgium and once close to Paris, which was planned well before the war, and which troops needed to march for many kilometers every day were all marked. And the price of the rapid fight to Paris was that a large number of horses in the German army were exhausted to death, so they were blocked by the Anglo-French forces on the Marne, which was due to the fact that the personnel and materials in the rear could not be transported, resulting in the overuse of troops, resulting in the German soldiers being squeezed to the extreme and could no longer hold on, resulting in the defeat of the Marne. Then Germany could no longer break through the Marne.

The German Army thought of a lot of ways to deal with the big guys in the army, but because of cost or other reasons, it finally chose to use more horses for transportation. In fact, Germany had purchased a lot of trucks before, but the trucks did not perform well at that time, they could only tow more than a ton of artillery, and their performance on complex roads was not very good. So the German army did not have many equipment, just more than a thousand.

As for now, the ideal means of transport in the minds of the German army has appeared, a transport capable of towing three tons, and the Fiat F75 truck is definitely a surprise for Germany.

For this reason, the German army has purchased several vehicles for testing, which can tow most of the German artillery, which is excellent news for simplifying the logistics of the German army. Not to mention that it can also adapt to most road conditions, for military trucks, trucks that can adapt to all kinds of road conditions are definitely the most popular. Because there are no good roads to go on the battlefield, they are basically dirt roads that have been crushed countless times and are muddy and have bomb craters. In this environment, the Fiat F75 truck is also more reliable than previous trucks. And the reliability is not bad, don't choose who to choose.

Since this car is so in line with the needs of the German army, then how can there be a road not to choose. Although there are still some generals in the army on the government's side who have a small number of foreign trucks for the army, at the request of Admiral Moltke Jr., it was finally decided.

Some people may ask, doesn't Germany have an automobile industry?

Yes, German cars do well in passenger cars, but in trucks they are very different from Fiat. The German Army had given them a chance before, but the truck samples from each of the automakers failed the Army's tests. Not to mention that compared with the new Fiat F75, even the old truck is not as good. It also extinguished the nostalgia of most of the Army's generals to use their own trucks.

This is why the arrival of the German delegation, although Fiat does not know very well about it, but has heard about it, and this is why President Giovanni Agnelli greeted him at the door with a group of high-level officials.

He wanted to improve relations with the German military and make the F75 more marketable.

After all, military vehicles have a different focus than civilian ones, and this time the Germans were so sincere. The luxury order of 10,000 vehicles allowed Fiat to see the wealth of the Germans.