where did spyder come from?

Question

ferrari spyder

Answer 1

The term derives from an old horse-drawn open topped carriage, where the metal arms that hold the hood together were said to resemble a spider.
If you look inside the folding hood of some cars, you can see why.

Answer 2

As with other automotive terms, the term derives from horse-drawn carriages. A "spider" was a lighter version of a phaeton, having narrower, spindly wheels and two-seat accommodation. The name implied an extremely rudimentary top mechanism originating from a small two-seat horse-cart with a folding sunshade made of four bows; with its black cloth top and exposed sides for air circulation it resembled an eight-legged spider. This term was subsequently applied to automobiles.

Alternatively, a native Italian who has had no English influence in the pronunciation would pronounce "spyder" or "spider" as speeder. Thus a car labeled by an Italian car manufacturer as "Spyder" or "Spider" is intended to be simply a "speeder" or a sports car. (Aston Martin used to have a car labeled "spyder" but now have a model labeled "Volante", an Italian word that translates into English as "speeder".)

Contrary to popular belief, the first car to be officially called a "spyder" was not the Porsche 550 Spyder. Aston Martin produced a spyder in the same year. Spyder is found on a wide assortment of car names since the advent of the automobile—for example, the Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Spyder that won the Mille Miglia in 1938, before Porsche existed, by Biondetti of the Scuderia Ferrari team—but arguably did not receive particular notoriety or significance until the popularity of James Dean's 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, "Lil Bastard", which he was driving when he died.

Other later spyders include Mitsubishi, numerous Ferraris and later Porsches. However, the most significant and known model to wear this name was the Fiat 124 Spider/Pininfarina Spider, of which approximately 200,000 were manufactured, of which 75% were sold in United States.

EXAMPLES:
Toyota MR2
Porsche 550 Spyder
Fiat 850
Fiat 124 Sport Spider / Pininfarina Spider Europa / Spider America
Chevrolet Corvair
Triumph TR7
Aston Martin DB2 Spyder

In more recent times, the term has been erroneously used by many automakers as a synonym for convertible. The following cars' names include Spyder or Spider but do not meet the basic Spyder criteria as illustrated above:

Mitsubishi Eclipse (only the convertible version is dubbed Spyder)
Lamborghini Gallardo
Mitsubishi 3000GT
Maserati Spyder
Alfa Romeo Spider
Porsche RS Spyder

Answer 3

Why is this in mitsubishi? Probably because Mitsubishi came out with a spyder eclipse back in 1996. Anyways the Ferrari came from Italy.

Answer 4

It means soft top convertible.

Answer 5

it is an italian car