Question of the day

[Guest 1678]

Fiat finally acquired all the Chrysler shares

 

[drewf]

Right group, bit closer to our interests.

 

[StuartW]

A full takeover of Maserati by the Fiat group was finally completed with the last private shareholders being bought out?

 

[drewf]

Right company at last! What did they make?

 

[StuartW]

Something is telling me there are spark plugs involved or am I going completely off on a tangent?

 

[2b1ask1]

MC12's?

 

[Mr.Cambio]

I couldn't resist and i googled it. Drew...you had my patiance checked here !!
Won't tell, of course.

 

[drewf]

Some spark plugs, but not all

No MC12s involved Newton.

It's not too tricky, is it Nikos? Not for the people on here, surely? It has been discussed...

 

[Mr.Cambio]

I personally wouldn't find it Drew, unless i had a lot more clues..i missed that it had been discussed as well.

 

[drewf]

OK - another clue, it happened in Turin.

 

[StuartW]

Was it the construction of a new factory, moving some of the construction process over to the Turin being that's where Fiat is based?

This is becoming question of the week rather than the day!

 

[drewf]

Yes - I don't want it to become a looooooong drawn out question - that will just get too boring!!

Close enough Stuart - on the first date, Maserati started production at the new factory, making QPs. By the second date, just nine months later, they had added Ghiblis to the production line, and turned out the 10,000th car. Stunning, compared to the production rate in Modena.

Your go.

 

[StuartW]

I recall it being discussed on here sometime ago and those numbers are very impressive indeed.


A fairly easy one now, for Londoners at least - what is the name of the city's first coffee shop and what is it also affectionately known as? It was a little before Starbucks & Costa, 17th Century I think

 

[GeoffCapes]

Having frequented that place for 20 years I know it well.

The Jam Pot!

Wasn't called a coffee shop though. It was the Jamaica Wine House.

 

[StuartW]

You're quick off the mark Mr Capes - over to you!

 

[GeoffCapes]

I worked about 30 yards from it. Have raced to make the last train from there many a time!

Here's a pictorial one from my trip to Rioja this weekend.

This is one of four 'ageing' areas (where the wine is put into barrels to age, obviously) from the Faustino vineyard in Rioja.
How many bottles of red wine are produced from these barrels each year?

I'll take to the nearest 50,000, otherwise we'd be here all year!

 

[daverichardson]

1.25 million

 

[GeoffCapes]

Way off Dave!

 

[drewf]

Looks to be ~200 barrels on each side, so 400 in total in the photo, at 300 bottles per barrel, that's 120,000, give or take. If you mean in all four, then that's 480,000 or so. Unless of course there are more barrels!

 

[GeoffCapes]

Looks to be ~200 barrels on each side, so 400 in total in the photo, at 300 bottles per barrel, that's 120,000, give or take. If you mean in all four, then that's 480,000 or so. Unless of course there are more barrels!

Just realised that it doesn't show the depth. The barrels are about 15-20 deep!