Ferrari Dino engine

The Ferrari Dino engine is a line of mechanically similar V6 and V8 engines that Ferrari produced for about forty years, from the late 1950s into the early 2000s. The idea came from Alfredo Ferrari, called Dino, son of Enzo Ferrari, who suggested a V6 for Formula Two at the end of 1955 and discussed its details with the newly hired engineer Vittorio Jano while ill in hospital; he died in 1956 at the age of 24. The first Dino V6 displaced 1.5 litres and first raced at the Grand Prix of Naples in April 1957. The 65 degree version, with a separate crankpin for each connecting rod, was the only 65 degree V6 in the world, and the same layout returned in the 1992 456 V12. Sixty degree versions powered the 196 S and 286 SP, the Fiat Dino carried the engine to road use, and the later Dino V8 used a flat-plane crankshaft.