A Packard-engined Golden Hawk ran the Mille Miglia, the last car styled under Raymond Loewy's studio before the Avanti.
Lead trim: Golden Hawk 289 cu in supercharged Studebaker V8 (275 hp, 1957–1958)
Studebaker Golden Hawk1956–1958
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FactA Packard-engined Golden Hawk ran the Mille Miglia, the last car styled under Raymond Loewy's studio before the Avanti.
The Studebaker Golden Hawk is a two-door pillarless hardtop personal luxury car built between 1956 and 1958, the last car until the Avanti with styling influenced by Raymond Loewy's studio: it took the shape of the 1953–55 Champion/Commander Starliner but added a large, almost vertical eggcrate grille, a raised hoodline and vertical fibreglass tailfins, replacing the 1955 Speedster. The raised hood made room for Packard's 352 cu in (5.8 L) V8 of 275 bhp, giving an excellent power-to-weight ratio for 1956 (second only to the Chrysler 300B among 1956 American production cars; Speed Age tested it against the 300B, Thunderbird and Corvette in July 1956) though it was nose-heavy, and a Packard-engined 1956 car ran the Mille Miglia. For 1957–58 the Packard V8 (no longer available after Packard's Utica plant was leased to Curtiss-Wright) was replaced by Studebaker's 289 cu in (4.7 L) V8 with a McCulloch supercharger giving the same 275 hp, the best-performing Hawk until the R2-engined Gran Turismo Hawk; the 1957–58 cars were 203.9 in long with a padded dash, a fibreglass hood overlay and concave metal fins. The other 1956 Hawks were the Flight Hawk (a Champion), Power Hawk (Commander) and Sky Hawk (President).
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2 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Hawk 289 cu in supercharged Studebaker V8 (275 hp, 1957–1958) | 1957–1958 | 4.7 L V8 | 275 hp | 333 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
| Golden Hawk Packard 352 cu in V8 (275 bhp, 1956) | 1956–1956 | 5.8 L V8 | 275 hp | 380 lb-ft | — | RWD | — | — |
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