Dino (marque)

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Dino (Italian: [ˈdiːno]), named after Alfredo "Dino" Ferrari (1932-1956) who died a young age but had championed V6 engines at Ferrari, was first used as name for Ferrari race cars with engines smaller than 12 cylinders. The type came into existence in late 1956 with a front-engined Formula Two racer powered by a Dino V6 engine, and also was used in front-engine open sportscar racers. In 1961, Ferrari adopted the mid-engined, rear-drive layout, putting the V6 behind the driver in both the new 1.5 Liter 156 F1 Formula One as well as in the Ferrari SP series of sportscar racers. In 1965, Ferrari started to develop two kinds of mid-engine V6 Dino sports cars: one was intended mainly for customers racing in the 2.0 Liter Group 4 Sportscar category that required at least 50 to be built, but too few Dino 206S were made, thus they had to enter as Group 6 Prototype. The other was a road going GT car which used Dino as a brand. To have hundreds of Dino V6 engines built in order to achieve homologation...

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