De Tomaso Pantera - car classics

De Tomaso Pantera

Thanks to funding Ford, Pantera saw the light of day in 1969, and if the rights to sell the models in Europe belonged to Alessandro di Tommaso, the company Ford had rights to sell the models in the United States. Unlike appeared before her Mangusta, Pantera was used steel monokokovaya design, because she had to be sold through dealers Ford and thus required a lot of cars, that is, she had to be quick in production. In the model were dvuhrychazhnye suspension with transverse links both in the front and rear, and remained throughout the existence of the model, as the engine Ford. In 1982, there was presented the updated model of GT5, in which the wheel arches allowed to install 254 mm and 330 mm wider wheels and massive Pirelli tires for better cornering. In the model installed the V-shaped eight-cylinder engine Cleveland (named in honor of the plant, where it did), and he allowed a large setting range, as a later version of the V-shaped eight-cylinder engine 5.0 BUT in which the model 450 1990 issue, there were two trubonagnetatelya. The design of the model developed Gandini. It could reach a speed of 289 km/h.