The IR 300 paired Italian design — Bertone, sketched by a young Giorgetto Giugiaro — with a V8 borrowed straight from the Chevrolet Corvette, and took its model number from that engine's horsepower.
Lead trim: Rivolta IR 300 5.4 Chevrolet 327 V8
Iso Rivolta IR 3001962–1970
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FactThe IR 300 paired Italian design — Bertone, sketched by a young Giorgetto Giugiaro — with a V8 borrowed straight from the Chevrolet Corvette, and took its model number from that engine's horsepower.
The Iso Rivolta IR 300, introduced in 1962 by Iso Automotoveicoli, was the first luxury car from a company known for motorcycles and micro cars such as the Isetta: chairman Renzo Rivolta and former Ferrari engineer Giotto Bizzarrini wanted an everyday usable gran turismo in the original sense, priced between a Jaguar and a Ferrari. Bizzarrini developed a pressed-steel, welded-panel chassis designed to flex fore and aft, with unequal-length wishbones at the front, a de Dion rear axle located by twin trailing arms and a Watt's linkage with a Salisbury limited-slip differential, and four-wheel Dunlop disc brakes (the rears inboard); the body, a 2+2 coupé on a 2,700 mm wheelbase, was drawn by the young Giorgetto Giugiaro at Bertone. Like De Tomaso it took an American drivetrain: a 5.4-litre Chevrolet 327 V8 (10.5:1 compression, 360 lb·ft) with an all-synchromesh BorgWarner four-speed, later a five-speed manual or three-speed automatic. Presented at the 1962 Turin Motor Show, 797 IR 300s were built before production ended in 1970 amid slow sales (the expensive press-tool dies were kept and panels made in batches by a subcontractor), and a race variant that resembled the 1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Breadvan was homologated as a touring car. The IR 340 is catalogued as its own generation; the page lists 300 hp in the text and 295 hp in the technical table, so no power figure is entered.
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Trims & Figures
One published trim in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rivolta IR 300 5.4 Chevrolet 327 V8 | 1962–1970 | 5.3 L V8 | — | 360 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
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Iso's hotter IR 340 was always the rare one: of the roughly 964 Rivolta grand tourers built before production ended, only 167 got the 340hp engine.
The IR 300 paired Italian design — Bertone, sketched by a young Giorgetto Giugiaro — with a V8 borrowed straight from the Chevrolet Corvette, and took its model number from that engine's horsepower.
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