Dino was a marque for mid-engined, rear-drive sports cars produced by Ferrari from
1968 to 1976. Used for models with engines with fewer than 12
cylinders, it was an attempt by the company to offer a relatively
low-cost sports car. The Ferrari name remained reserved for its premium V-12 and flat 12 models until 1976, when "Dino" was retired in favour of full Ferrari branding.
Named to honour Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari's son and heir Dino Ferrari,
the Dino models used Ferrari racing naming designation of displacement
and cylinder count with two digits for the size of the engine in
deciliters and the third digit to represent the number of cylinders,
i.e. 246 being a 2.4-litre 6-cylinder and 308 being a 3.0-litre
8-cylinder. Ferrari street models of the time used a three-digit
representation of the displacement in cubic centimeters of one of the 12
cylinders, which would have been meaningless in a brand with differing
numbers of cylinders.
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