Maserati Bora - car classics

Maserati Bora

Thanks to the financial support of Citroen, which became the main shareholder of the company in 1968, Maserati has agreed to release the two models with the engine of the average volume, Marek with a V-shaped six-cylinder engine and Bora with a V-shaped-cylinders. Bora - the first srednemotornaya model Maserati, the company created a supermashinu, which has become a competitor Ferrari and Lamborghini. Used polumonokokovyy design with a bent sheet steel in the front part and sections of the body, while in the rear had a supporting frame, on which were mounted engine, transmission and suspension. The V-shaped eight-cylinder engine volume of 4.7 liters was designed in the 1950's, it was used by four camshaft with increased Cams, aluminum block and heads, hemispherical combustion chamber to increase capacity. The bed was a steel and despite the fact that the tests in a wind tunnel is not held, the drag coefficient was only 0.30 and what did not repeat during the years of the automotive industry. For many 9 years of production was done 570 car.