Dictionary Definition
nota See notum
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Preposition
notaRelated terms
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
nota- note (music)
French
Verb
nota- third-person singular past historic form of noter
Icelandic
Verb
nota- to use
Derived terms
Italian
Adjective
nota sRelated terms
Verb
notaSlovene
Noun
- note (diplomatic missive or written communication)
Spanish
Etymology
Latin notaNoun
- A note
Related terms
Swedish
Noun
sv-noun-or not nota- bill received at a restaurant, pub or similar, specifying what the guest have to pay for the food and drink ordered
Extensive Definition
- This article is about an Australian automobile manufacturer. There are also articles on the 19th century Hungarian song style nóta, the ballot choice None of the above (NOTA) and Network on Terminal Architecture (NoTA).
Nota is an automobile manufacturer in
Australia. The
company was founded by Guy
Buckingham in 1952. He was an
aircraft engineer and used his expertise to build triangulated
spaceframed
sportscars. Possibly Australia's first space-framed cars. In
1958 the
company built a series of all-enveloping aluminium streamlined
sports cars. First called "Streamliners", and later called
"Mazengarbs". Up to 1960 eleven of those
were made. In the late 1950s the company produced Formula
Junior cars. In 1963 the company
started with Mini powered sports
cars. In 1964
they started production of the Nota
Sapphire. In 1965 they started with
Formula
Vee cars. In the 1960s the company started with their
"Sportsman", a Lotus 7
lookalike. In 1968 came the Nota Fang,
their most successful model with over 100 being made. In 1973 Nota started with
their Marauder range of cars. At first they used the same
mechanicals as the Nota Fang, but in 1974 the Nota Levanti
front engine twin cam was released. In 1975 the supply of
Leyland 1275 GT engines started to ran out so Nota contacted
FIAT and both
Marauders and Fangs were made with the 2-litre twin cam
FIAT/Lancia
engine.
In the late 1970s Nota had started on 4WD 351 V8 mid-engined
Marauders, but in the 1980s Ford stopped export of the 351 engine
to Australia. After a trip to England Chris Buckingham assembled a
design team to design a Fang with Fl 3 litre V6 quad cam engine as
well as a fully enclosed, similarly specified Chimera. For 2003 Nota developed
the Nota Le
Mans, powered by either a Suzuki GTi 1300 cc or 1100 cc motor
cycle engine. For road use it could also use a Toyota 1800 cc VVTi
6-speed or the 3-litre V6 quad cam.
Current models
External links
nota in Dutch: Nota (fabrikant)
nota in Portuguese: Nota Sports
Cars