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The Firenza is a model of car offered by Vauxhall from May 1971 until 1975. It was a development of the Viva , but had a distinctive coupé body style (fastback) and only two doors. In South Africa, it was sold as the Chevrolet Firenza until it was replaced by the Chevrolet 1300/1900 during 1975.
A special variant of the Magnum estate, known as the Sportshatch, was produced in limited numbers (197) in 1976. This model used the "droopsnoot" nose cone, which had been designed by Wayne Cherry, Vauxhall's Chief Design Engineer to be used in the HP Firenza Droop Snoot model. In Trevor Alder's book "Vauxhall — The Post War Years" mention is ...
See also: Droop nose (aeronautics) The term droopsnoot or droop snoot has been variously applied to the following: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning (J variant) The Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber; The variable-angled nose of Concorde; The HPF model of the Vauxhall Firenza automobile
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Oldsmobile Firenza, a 1982–1988 American compact car Vauxhall Firenza , a 1970–1975 British compact coupé Firenza, a 1970–1979 British compact car sold in Canada as a rebadged Vauxhall Viva
Though testers noted that the Cadillac had a higher level of quality than the Chevrolet along with a far more luxurious interior (the DeVille was upholstered in leather while the Caprice had the standard cloth trim), the magazine ultimately considered the Chevy as the better value at $5,550 compared to the Cadillac's $9,081 price mainly due to ...
1966 (wg777), 1973 (wg774) The Fairey Delta 2 or FD2 (internal designation Type V within Fairey) is a British supersonic research aircraft that was produced by the Fairey Aviation Company in response to a specification from the Ministry of Supply for a specialised aircraft for conducting investigations into flight and control at transonic and ...
The droop nose is a feature fitted to a small number of aircraft types so the nose of the aircraft can be lowered during takeoff and landing to improve the pilot's view of the ground below. This feature is used with a very-low aspect ratio wing such as a delta wing .