Talk:Dino (marque)

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I moved the Dino pic to the GT4 page since it is of a Bertone GT4 and not the more traditional Pininfarina GTB Dino that people normally think of. Yes, it is a Dino, and yes it is mentioned here. So it can stay. I'd love a pic of a Pinin Dino, though! --SFoskett 14:41, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

I propose making this page "Ferrari Dino" instead of "Dino (car)". It immediately removes ambiguity, and also properly places the Dino as a Ferrari model. Although originally intended to be a seperate marque, it simply didn't pan out that way, and I feel it more appropriate to list as I suggest. --196.2.127.9 13:05, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Bad idea they were branded Dino, not Ferrari. Ericd 19:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

The time line is all worng for the Ferrari Mondial.

it's 1980 - 82 Mondial 8 1983 - 1985 Mondial qv (missing) 1986 - 1989 Mondial 3.2 1990 - 1993 Mondial t

the 308 is wrong too

the i version was produced from 1980 to 1982. The qv was produced from 1983 too 1985 the 328 was produced in 1989, but so was the 348 Some 348 were produced in 1995 too, but I beleive there were all Challnge cars.

New Dino?

Could there be a new Dino coming to respond to Lambo's new Miura? 192.235.1.34 19:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

According to Auto Express, [1] it's scheduled for release in 2009, as the Ferrari 420 Dino. "In 2009 Ferrari reused the Dino name - although not the Dino brand - for their Ferrari 420 Dino".-Ashley Pomeroy 17:19, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Ferrari denies they're going to build this car themselves, but Maserati hints they will do it, and that the new dino will thereby carry a V8 Maserati engine.

Factual Error

I corrected an entry under history, it is true that "Dino" Ferrari died in 1956, but the 1.6 litre class was introduced in 1966. Otherwise it would have been pretty bad engineering if it had took Ferrari about 10 years to create an engine, as for homologation causes it was first seen in production with the Fiat Dino in 1967.

link to jalopnik article

I think it should be removed: that's a front engined mule for a small GT. We don't even know if under that body there's a Ferrari, but even if it is, it's not a Dino for sure: it's, again, a front engined small GT. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.193.49.191 (talk) 13:55, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Body shape, not engine

I am by no means a ferrari expert, but I was told mulitple times at a ferrari club meet decades ago (and also by 1 person there who owned a Dino) that it was a specific aerodynamic and distinctive shape designed and produced in a small run in honour of the death of some guy called Dino. Apparently his last name was Ferrari. And apparently he was the son of the head of ferrari at the time. Apart from that, this entire article makes a mockery of the attempted rememberance of his death.

These Dinos are extremely rare, extremely hard to find and extremely hard to find any information on. They certainly aren't any sort of 'commoners' cars as the article makes them out to be.

This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ferrari_Dino_246_GT_1969.jpg is what I'm thinking of. Sure, it says GT, but the point was mostly the shell. They must have had to make a few hundred road cars since that is required to run a model in B-class IMSA, or whatever they called it back then. Thats why they're so rare?

I have no idea how these fiat/ferrari spyder crossovers and 308s are in the least relevant here. As the warnings above say, this article needs major refinement?

Yours respectfully, Me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.24.134.243 (talk) 15:48, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

They're relevant because, for better or worse, the company who made them (and the 2-seaters to which you're referring), run by the father of the guy called Dino, a Mr. Enzo Ferrari, decided to call them "Dino"s (whether they were just Dinos or Fiat Dinos; the latter used the same engine as the Dino cars to which you're referring) before later deciding to call some of them Ferraris.

Perhaps there should be a page about the 208/248GT, separate from the page about the Dino line in general. Guy "used to own a 308GT4" Harris (talk) 07:26, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

As I was alluding to, these blocky cars are all called spyders to everyone knowledgable I've ever met (whether fiats or ferraris). Not Dinos. And they certainly are relatively common. Is this perhaps some american misnaming thing?

Think I'll stick with model # in future... if only car manufacturers didnt think the engine was the only part of a car. 11:49, 3 April 2013 (UTC)~

Insert jokes about Ferraris obsession with exactly that here -->

Door mirrors

I think I'm right in saying that all Dino's left the factory without a door/wing mirror which was a legal requirement for car's in Italy. The reason for this was that Enzo thought that it spoilted the line of the car. Not sure if it is worth including in the article? Bjmullan (talk) 23:27, 9 November 2009 (UTC)