Word: turismo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wind Design. To enlarge its market, Alfa-Romeo last month began producing a light Giulia 1300 TI (for Turismo Internazionale). Priced in Italy at $2,270, the four-passenger car is not quite the cheapest Alfa-Romeo. For several years, the company has had a plainer, less well-padded Giulia 1300 on the market at $2,080. The new 1300 TI model, with a more powerful engine and stylish interior, is calculated to appeal to customers who want comfort and speed at a moderate price...
...laps tense Cobra pitmen watched four Ferrari prototypes scream past the yellow trackside pylons, locked in the lead. But behind them on Sebring's blazing 100° track boomed a blue Cobra coupe followed by two open cockpit Cobra roadsters. Not a single Ferrari Gran Turismo went by among the first ten cars...
...smart-sounding place name is still a big favorite: Monterey, Biscayne, Park Lane. Pontiac will add the GTO-borrowed from Ferrari's GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato)-to a racing stable that at present includes the Bonneville, Grand Prix and Le Mans. American Motors' Rambler continues to chug along with its American, Classic and Ambassador models tagged according to price and polish...
...high gear. Back to Sebring came the Ferraris, eleven of them, hidden away in an airport hangar, where brown-coveralled mechanics tinkered lovingly with valves and fuel pumps. They came in all shapes and sizes, from a twelve-cylinder, 420-h.p. experimental car to a 340-h.p. gran turismo, a first cousin of the one that Desi Arnaz tools around Hollywood. Behind these wheels was an international Who's Who of racing: Scotland's Innes Ireland, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez, the U.S.'s Roger Penske, Britain's John Surtees had a 340-h.p. roadster...
...with bucket seats in front and a turbosupercharged high-compression engine capable of delivering 215 horses (price: $3,039). Stude-baker's new Avanti (TIME, April 13) is a rakish restyling from inside out designed to narrow still further the gap between the family sedan and the gran turismo...