<VV> That famous car...

[airvair]

GT or GTO stands for Grand Touring or Grand Touring Oblonmeglio (or
something like that - a foreign word nontheless) (G). Anyway, they're
commonly used terms in Europe.

-Mark

Tony Underwood wrote:
> 
> >Was the name changed because Ferrari disputed GM's use of their
> >trademark, or that the ladies thought spiders are yucky ?
> 
> I doubt it.   "Spyder" is a somewhat generic variation of a car, not
> unlike GT or GTO etc.    Arguably, the first GTO was a Ferrari (250)
> yet a couple years later GM was selling their own GTO-badged car even
> if it wasn't really.   ;)    And, it also didn't stop GM from using
> the name Spyder on the mid-late '70s Vega/Monza platform
> offering.     Personally I thought it was blasphemy.
> 
> tony..
>