Aquila Italiana (Italy) - AllCarIndex

The Aquila Italiana (Italian Eagle) featured 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder engines, with monobloc casting and ball-bearing crankshafts. The 1908 Model K featured the first known use of aluminium pistons in a car engine.
Aquila Italiana cars were used regularly in competiion events - a 4.2 litre/60 hp model finished second in the 1913 Targa Florio, and smaller models were successful in hillclimbs. In 1914 the company entered three advanced single-overhead camshaft 6-cylinder engined cars for the 1914 French Grand Prix, although only one car started - retiring after 10 laps.
The cars were built unchanged, along with aircraft engines during World War 1, until the company was taken over by SPA, which ended car production in 1917.