DeTomaso Pantera is that 2012 on the September Frankfurt car debuted will show.
During the Cobra turned out, a British chassis could be as large, in combination with an American, DeTomaso has something similar in the 60s and 70s by merging Italian enclosure and styling Ford v 8 engines. The company offended name even the Cobra by their first vehicle of the Mangusta Italian for the Snake's killing Mongoose. From the pen of design legend Giorgetto Giugiaro, the Mangusta was a huge mid-engine sports car, but reliability and a high price limited sales to only 400 models.
DeTomaso went back to the drawing board and came back with Pantera, a light 351 Cleveland-powered car, which every bit equal to the offers from Lamborghini and Ferarri.
The first models from 1970 had major quality problems, frustrating even Elvis Presley, to the point, which he shot his Pantera, if it does not start. However, by 1971 they had solved, and the company had a reliable exotic at a reasonable cost to Ford dealers.Ford may have stopped, 1975 emissions and safety regulations import the car, but, that didn't stop the Pantera continuing sales in the world until 1992 for a total of 7,800 cars, 5,600 of which American Lincoln Mercury dealers made it. Share thanks to these parts, is to maintain the original DeTomaso Pantera of one of the cheapest and the easiest way to Italian exotics, change, that it have a perennial favorites with collectors.
After production ended in the Pantera, fought DeTomaso with modest sales of its luxury models and a failed attempt to bring back the Mangusta. The bankrupt company Gian Mario Rossignolo bought in 2008. See Rossignolo business plan, the new company will produce a mix of luxury crossover and sports cars. Reactions to the new DeTomaso concept of SLC-crossover, a reskinned Cadillac SRX, the debuted at the Geneva Motor Show were mixed, but the automatic press and car enthusiasts alike were far more interested in a new Pantera announcement of the company. In the vicinity of production-ready concept debut at the Los Angeles show, was rumored to car but DeTomaso announced the car debut at the Frankfurt auto show a full month before planned.
What will the new Pantera be? DeTomaso is silent, but that hasn't stopped some information leakage by. A spy video recorded in May shows a car that similar proportions such as the Lamborghini Murceilago, but has with Pantera of black styling cues, including large air vents behind the side Windows.
Resulting from their cooperation with Cadillac, speculation revolves around the engine to GM small block V8. Lighter and more compact than its rivals, the module is switched on the Corvette in production anywhere from 430 to 638 HP versions. The Z06-7 liter LS7 engine would be the most logical choice it eschews weight to keep the compressors of the Z71, while you produce even a respectable 505hp.
DeTomaso starts its operations with a production version of the SLC called Deauville, which start later this year. Date of manufacture for the Pantera was not given, but Rossignolo has a target of 2,000 sports car sales a year set.
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