Talk:Ferrari 275

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Is this the car that was used in Claude LeLouch's 'Rendezvous' film ? A truely great piece of driving and filming techniques. An unnamed driver (possibly F1 driver of the early 70's) drives flat out through the streets of Paris in the early hours of the morning. Camera used is gyroscopic and strapped to the front. No speeding up of the film is used and the soundtrack is the engine...... :) great ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.219.11.109 (talk • contribs) 10:05, 31 October 2006

Only rumours, it was Lelouch himself, in his Mercedes. The Ferrari 275 is often falsely claimed to have been the camera vehicle in C'était un rendez-vous due to the (separate) engine sounds that were edited. -- Matthead  Discuß   23:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

We've owned a 275 GTB for 20 years, I've been in it at racing speeds. The engine noise is 'Rendezvous' are a 275 or an extremely similar engine/car combo. The speeds in 'Rendezvous', however, are far too low for the noises being produced :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.189.82.177 (talk) 10:15, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Spyder

"build a few Spyder versions" - what does Spyder (with capital S) mean here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Macgroover (talk • contribs) 01:34, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

It's a common Anglo-American misspelling of the Italian word 'spider', pronounced 'speeder', meaning an open sports car. The Italians think it is an English word, which it used to be, but the British themselves haven't called sports cars 'speeders' since about the 1920s. In Italian, you can't use a double E -- if you did, it would have to be pronounced like a long A -- so they write it as 'spider'. Weirdly, people in Britain and the US like to spell it with a Y to make absolutely certain they pronounce it wrong, like the arachnid, thus missing the whole point. Khamba Tendal (talk) 14:11, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

References

While it is understandable to "expect" a reference after quotes or explicit information, it is also Wikipedia policy on sourcing for controversial information to be referenced, this does NOT mean that editors need to drive-by tag start class articles with reference tags. The vehicle is very famous and a simple Google search would even show that auction prices have been phenomenal because of the rarity. Anyway, multiple sectional reference tags, especially on a start article with general references, is a little overboard. Otr500 (talk) 17:05, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

This is hardly a start class article, in spite of the tag at the top of this page. It has been around in this substantial form since at least 2006. It needs references.  Stepho  talk  07:01, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Infobox size

Can someone reduce the size of the infobox(s)? They are a little large for the article. Otr500 (talk) 17:08, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

It would be hard to reduce the infobox sizes without removing pictures or information - both of which would be bad ideas.  Stepho  talk  07:02, 14 May 2015 (UTC)