Giugiaro Quaranta Car

The Giugiaro Quaranta was unveiled at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. Powered by the Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive, the Giugiaro Quaranta is equipped with a 3.3 liter gasoline V6 engine and two electric motors that together give 8-cylinder engine performance figures.

The engine of Giugiaro Quaranta is coupled with an E-CVT Electronic-Continuously Variable Transmission which is an automatic planetary gear transmission that features ratios varying infinitely as speed changes.

The Giugiaro Quaranta powerplant develops 200 kW total power and 288 Nm of torque at 4400 rpm. The top speed for Giugiaro Quaranta is limited to 250 km/h and the 0 to 100 km/h acceleration time is 4.05 seconds.

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Italdesign Quaranta Concept Car

The Italdesign Quaranta concept car was designed to celebrate Italdesign Giugiaro’s forty years of business in styling and technological research. The Italdesign Quaranta concept car was inspired by the Bizzarrini Manta concept from 1968. But in reality The Italdesign Quaranta concept has a lot more in common with the Volta concept created by Italdesign for Toyota in 2004.

The Quaranta uses a 3.3 litre V6 Toyota engine with Hybrid Synergy Drive to provide 268 horsepower and 212 lb-ft of torque. The innovative aspect of this engine lies in the ability of the electronic control system to regulate the power distributed by the electric motors to the wheels, making the clutch-gearbox-transmission block superfluous.

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