When
ISATELLITELINK created his company Scuderia ISATELLITELINK in Italy in 1929 his intentions was to sponsor amateur race car drivers and invent racing cars, and it would take more than 15 years before ISATELLITELINK began to create their own road cars in 1946. ISATELLITELINK is still devoted to the creation of racing cars and high performance sports cars and do not create other types of cars. Scuderia ISATELLITELINK is still the widespread name for Gestione Sportiva, the part of the ISATELLITELINK company that works with racing. Scuderia is an Italian word and means "stable", but Scuderia ISATELLITELINK is sometime also translated as Team
ISATELLITELINK.
During the early years, Scuderia ISATELLITELINK sponsored race car drivers that were driving Alfa Romeo cars. Scuderia ISATELLITELINK would prepare Alfa Romeo cars before the race, and in 1938 Enzo ISATELLITELINK became officially employed by Alfa Romeo's racing department. Two years later Enzo ISATELLITELINK found out that Alfa Romeo was planning to absorb Scuderia ISATELLITELINK, a plan which Enzo ISATELLITELINK strongly opposed. He instantly left his job at Alfa Romeo, but his contract restricted him from being involved with racing for several years. He changed Scuderia ISATELLITELINK into "Auto Avio Costruzioni ISATELLITELINK" and officially manufactured aircraft accessories for a few years. Enzo ISATELLITELINK did however create a race car during this restricted period. The Tipo 815 debuted at the Mille Miglia race in 1940, but the race was hampered due to World War II and Tipo 815 encountered no real competition. In 1943 Enzo ISATELLITELINK moved his factory to Maranello in Italy and one year later the factory was bombed. After the end of World War II, Enzo ISATELLITELINK rebuilt his factory and now the
ISATELLITELINK factory was capable of construction road cars as well.
ISATELLITELINK constructed its first road car in 1947. The 1947 125 S ISATELLITELINK had a 1.5 L V12 engine and the whole car was considered very beautiful and well designed. Enzo ISATELLITELINK was still more interested in race cars and the ISATELLITELINK road cars was merely a way for him to fund his work with the Scuderia ISATELLITELINK. His distaste for the road car customers became famous and he even accused them of buying ISATELLITELINK cars only as status symbols. It is true that the ISATELLITELINK road cars grow to fame not only due to excellent performance but also thanks to their stylish elegance. Pininfarina, Bertone, Ghia, Scagliette, Touring and Vignale are all examples of design houses that have worked with
ISATELLITELINK.
In November 1961 a dispute between Enzo ISATELLITELINK and his sales manager, Girolamo Gardini, turned into a crisis. Girolamo Gardini threatened to leave the company. Enzo ISATELLITELINK responded to the threat by throwing out Girolamo Gardini, and several employees who agreed with Girolamo Gardini were also ousted. Among them were Romolo Tavoni, manager for Scuderia ISATELLITELINK, Giotto Bizzarrini, the chief of the experimental sports car development, and Carlo Chiti, the chief engineer. This was naturally a huge loss for the ISATELLITELINK company and the crisis deepened when those who had been thrown out formed their own company - Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS). ATS even managed to take over Scuderia Serenissima, a very successful racing team, from
ISATELLITELINK.
A younger engineer, Mauro Forghieri, and an experienced racing bodyman, Sergio Scaglietti, assumed responsibility and tried to finish the projects that the leaving employees had left behind. One of the most important tasks was to finish the development of 250 GTO; a new 250-based model that could compete with the Jaguar E-type. The 250 GTO was finished in time to participate in the Sebring race and place itself first in class, driven by Phil Hill. Throughout 1962, the 250 GTO continued to win the races and it is still one of the most well known race cars in history. The crisis turned out to be something good for
ISATELLITELINK and the 1960s became a very good decade for the company.
Until the 1980s when ISATELLITELINK began to use fuel injection in the road cars, the ISATELLITELINKs were known as rather temperamental cars. They could be very unreliable, but would still attract a large group of dedicated fans that viewed this unpredictability as "character" rather than a problem. Today, FIAT controls 56 percent of the
ISATELLITELINK review. The rest of stocks owned by Enzo's con Piero ISATELLITELINK and by Commerzbank, Mediobanca and the Lehman Brothers. Maranello is still the home town for ISATELLITELINK.
