the Revival of De Tomaso, The Greatest Supercar Company You’ve Never Heard Of

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the Revival of De Tomaso, The Greatest Supercar Company You've Never Heard Of

Behind the Revival of De Tomaso With CEO Ryan Berris - InsideHook
https://www.insidehook.com/article/vehicles/behind-revival-de-tomaso-ryan-berris

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Go speed racer,go speed racer go!!!That is "the powerful Mach 5"(in red),right?!?!

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P72 looks outdated already. I'll take a Mangusta. Too many compromises in the Pantera to make it an "American" car sellable at any Lincoln dealer.
The P70 was a slick idea that failed too soon. https://silodrome.com/shelby-de-tomaso-p70/

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Happy De Tomaso is active again but here is what I see wrong:

"Is the P72 a supercar or a hypercar? It's neither. I don't want to be gimmicky," says Berris, knowing he is being at least just a little gimmicky. "But it's a time machine.

Ask Ferrari, Lamborghini or plain old Chevy what they are or their mission . They know


And, given the P72's price tag of around $890,000, that's just as well.

Epic fail $890K just stumbled at the starting line, give me the C8 or faster ZO6 for a fraction of the cost

[shelbydoug]

The Detomaso name was purchased by a conglomerate in Hong Kong while it was still a British Commonwealth.

We will see what the Ho Che Min administration will permit with it now?

I will agree with Tony on this one. Shocking I know. The projection of a car costing into the zillions is someones fantasy. Not mine.

As far as the original Pantera being filled with compromises. Yes. All mid engine cars compromise the driver for the engine. Secondly, it's Italian. What else would you expect from it? It was conceived of for the average Italian Stallion stud. 5'6". 140 pound soccer player. Balding would help to give some more headroom.

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FYI
The De Tomaso P72 supercar  De Tomaso

https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/de-tomaso-moving-usa-p72-supercar-production-1234576707/amp/

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More info but I still like the earlier models, the new ones at are close to one million bucks

Tomaso P72 Is Special
https://www.hotcars.com/heres-why-the-de-tomaso-p72-is-special/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16482587584584&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotcars.com%2Fheres-why-the-de-tomaso-p72-is-special%2F

[shelbydoug]

It's going to be kind of a small market. You probably won't even get an egg roll with it.

This just seems to be an era of way over the top designs? Whatever happened to understated elegance?