Talk:Roadster (automobile)

message: Myrtlegroggins (talk) 07:09, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

message: Barchetta redirects here and at the bottom of the page there's a few sentences on the Italian meaning, etc.  I don't have a source to list but I've read that barchetta was first applied to a Ferrari 166 (produced 1948 - 1950)  because the car looked like a "little boat".  I guess the lines of the 166 were unusual for the time, tappered towards the road, kinda bubble like on top, and a crease in the sheet metal that ran across the tops of the wheel wells even suggested a waterline.  See here for a picture.  And it was definitely a roadster!  I'll see if I can find a source.  But perhaps the Ferrari 166 deserves to be mentioned anyway, it might be the quintessential roadster, and the car did win the Mille Miglia, LeMans and the Targa Florio, all in the same year! --RageX 19:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the word barchetta? 

message: Smart Roadster is actually targa. Let's move it to targa article. Netrat_msk (talk) 18:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smart Roadster 

message: Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles#Merging roadster et al for a centralised discussion around merging all the roadster-related articles. Zunaid©® 19:59, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging roadster et al 

message: Spyder redirects here.  Since the Can-Am Spyder isn't a roadster, there should probably be a disambiguation page; the Toyota MR-2 Spyder also comes to mind.  Unfortunately, I don't know how to create a disambiguation page; if someone could point me in the right direction (say hello on my talk page), I'd be glad to do it?  Dean (talk) 19:09, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Spider (disambiguation) already exists which serves the purpose. I'll put a hat note at the top of this article. Zunaid 09:03, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Why Spyder?  Anyone know the origin?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.82.163 (talk) 04:57, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Wouldn't it make sense for some of this information to be in the actual article.  Since references to spider/spyder link to this page with no explanation or information, the links are confusing.  A brief comment in the article, perhaps a separate section, explaining the relationship of the term spider to roadster would make sense. 99.245.248.91 (talk) 02:49, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spyder Redirect 

message: Having a section of the article called "pop culture" or "trivia" or "miscellaneous" attracts unsourced cruft and makes it a disjointed read. It's better to place significant facts within the article, such as chronologically in the history section. See WP:TRIVIA.<P>Appearances in TV shows need sources, the same as anything else. If no third party sources ever mention Remington Steel's car, then it should not be mentioned. I realize the whole article is unsourced, so there's a lot more work to do before deleting unsourced TV cameos. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:21, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Pop culture sections

message: The article states:
An alternative explanation for the term, used principally on Italian cars, is simply the Italian transliteration of "speeder" or "speedster", originating in a reporter's crackly telephone call to Italy in 1953 about the Porsche 550 "Speedster" (a car driven by James Dean).
I've found a sales brochure for a Fiat 508 from 1934 which refers to one variant as the "spider" variant so this information (or rather speculation) is clearly false. 
See here:   87.154.0.26 (talk) 23:09, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The term "spider"