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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 ...
1972: Launch of the Parker's Car Price Guide. 1st issue: March 1972, priced at 20p; 1973: Full colour front page; 1997: Emap buys Parker's portfolio from Parker Mead. Last Parker Mead edition of the Price Guide was August 1997; 1998: Winter 1998 was the first edition of 'Parker's Car Chooser Magazine' which ran until 2006
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
The Oldsmobile Firenza was a compact car which was produced by Oldsmobile from 1982 to 1988. It was based on the front-wheel drive GM J platform , which was shared with the Buick Skyhawk , Cadillac Cimarron , Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunbird .
1987. Average home cost: $104,500. Adjusted for inflation: $277,169. Home prices jumped 13.6% this year due to inflation.
A high-performance big block V8 was available in the form of the Turbo-Jet 454, which produced 365 hp in 1971, but power decreased as the years went along. The 1970s marked the impact of the 1973 energy crisis with gasoline prices doubling from 1973 through 1979 and industry car sales plummeted 20 percent between 1973 and 1974. For the first ...
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 .