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-[[Image:Isotta Fraschini logo.PNG|thumb|100px|right|The Isotta Fraschini logo]]
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-'''Isotta Fraschini''' was know as "The Aristocrat of Automobiles." This was the Italian supreme luxury marque from Milan which only the most elite could own. Today Isotta-Fraschini is a set of several companies.
-*[[Isotta-Fraschini Motori S.p.A.]], "From a great history, today's story", an Italian engineering firm specializing in diesel products, particularly [[marine engine]]s, [[industrial engine]]s, and [[rail traction engine]]s but has provided a wide range of civil and military engineering products and services.
-*Fabbrica Automobili Isotta-Fraschini S.p.A., for a while the name and [[trademark]] was in the hands of the [[Italy|Italian]] government from which an Italian businessman Giuliano Malvino purchased it. At the present time this company is inactive although there is talk that is will be resurrected to compete [[Maybach]], [[Rolls-Royce]], and [[Bentley]].
-*[[Isotta Fraschini Milano, s.r.l.]], produces luxury goods in the spirit of the supreme luxury that the Isotta-Fraschini Motor Car embodied.
-== History ==
-[[Image:Isotta-Fraschini Tipo 8A S LeBaron Boattail Roadster.jpg|thumb|200px|Isotta-Fraschini Tipo 8A S LeBaron Boattail Roadster.]]
-[[Image:Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8 Sala Phaeton.jpg|thumb|200px|Isotta-Fraschini Tipo 8 Sala Phaeton.]]
-Isotta Fraschini was the most extreme and ultra-luxury [[marque]] in Italy; it was a true Italian pedigree, regarded as highly as [[Rolls-Royce]] is to the British but even more unusual. Like its Anglo counterpart, the name was made up of two surnames of its founders, [[Cesare Isotta]] and [[Oreste Fraschini]]. This high-end luxury car marque was established as Fabbrica Automobili Isotta-Fraschini. Prior to establishing their own company in [[1903]], Isotta and Fraschini were assembling Renault autombiles beginning in [[1899]].
-The first automobile which this marque produced featured a four cylinder that had an output of 12 hp (9 kW) which was succeeded by 16 hp (12 kW) then 24 hp (18 kW). In [[1905]] Isotta-Fraschini gained much notoriety in the race, Coppa Florio which they entered their Tipo D that featured a 17 liter 100 hp (75)engine. For a short time, in [[1907]] Isotta-Fraschini merged with the French company [[Lorraine-Dietich]]
-The Isotta-Fraschini is the automobile driven by the character Norma Desmond in the Oscar winning movie "Sunset Boulevard."  In the movie, which is set in the 1940s, Norma is a forgotten former silent film star from the 1920s, and the car represents both the height of her glamour and how its time has past.
-[[Category:Italian automobile manufacturers]

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