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De Tomaso P72

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  1. PaulK

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    PaulK, Jul 4, 2019
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    I love it! Love it! Love it!
     
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    Love the 60s exterior design, the interior reminds me of a combination of Pagani and Spyker.
     
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    The curves are exaggerated but I believe that if this thing performs it’s the most desirable car in the world. It’s stunningly beautiful. Id take this over a Pagani any day. I can’t wait for the resident design experts to chime in....
     
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    Wow, yes, it really does good call.
     
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    V8, manual transmission, carbon fiber panels, tub & cage, wing doors...I so happy it made it to production looking like that. What a vehicle.
     
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    Oh man, that’s just amazing! Beautiful!
     
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    Very reminiscent of Ferrari P cars, so very beautiful. Wonder what the italians and certain person who also copied that design and made it "his" will say about it. They say manual but the car shown is automatic, and the car @ Goodwood is using the Apollo IE's Ferrari sourced V12.
     
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    Exterior reminds me the stunning P 4/5 by Pininfarina.

    Not my cup of tea.
     
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    love it but would be even better if open top
     
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    Quite lovely
    Caught my eye enough to figure out what I was looking at
    Naturally, the thread was already happening
    Tough to say what the power plant is based on sound. At first I thought it was electric...
     
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    Beautiful in its "retro-ness"

    But it shows you also how far we have fallen behind in the looks department in the age of "aero". At $850K for a limited production car that's a pretty good price.

    Must Tee Off Napolis though.
     
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    its so much better looking than the modern ones in the video from brabham, apollo, etc. and same with scg cars too. the p4/5 was gorgeous. too bad he couldnt manufacture that one. curves just look better than angles in a car. who really cares if angular downforce can take 10 sec off ring lap time? give me looks and sound in a sports car. ultimate performance is down the list.
     
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    P3/4/5 by Meade?
     
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    One man's opinion, for what it's worth...

    FRONT Very retro. How are they going to meet bumper laws? I hope that's not two separate emblems? Headlights are acceptable, not as space ship as some rivals.

    REAR Putting exhaust stack facing up at the bottom of the fastback window is sheer idoicy--if someone looks over the back at the engine and you start the car, they get blasted by a backfire! Taillights at the extreme ends are welcome design cues, recalling LeMans prototypes from mid-to- late '60s

    INTERIOR a bit less glitzey than Pagani. I like the metal and diamond tufting. Shift lever is work of art like a little saint's statue in a church lit up by shafts of sunlight


    SIDE Very P3/4, side scoop maybe 10% too larfe, coke bottle shape with black area well done for "imch waist" effect, copper look wheels great, tired of that gold used on '60s Italian prototypes, Front spoiler fighting for attention. Couldn't it be smaller, painted flat black and more under the car? Roof appears in pictures to be sunroof. Hope they have the magic material Porsche has to make it go opaque at the touch of a button.Would rather have removable roof, hey, Ferrari had that back in '67 too!


    IN SUM
    This car is where the Jim Glickenhaus P4/5 could have been if it ever reached production. Instead Glickenhaus left working with Ferrari to go on his own and has a considerably uglier car. At last this DeTomaso is a car that promises to deliver the looks, glamor and performance of a Sixities Ferrari racer for the street,which is what most of us wanted in the first place. These new guys realize we don't want all the aero aids you need to go 200 mph, what we want is a car that looks like it goes 200 mph but still has the sensual nostalgia of the Sixties greats...
     
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    ADDED ABOUT THE NAME In one of the stories they told a reporter they didn't know the P70 ever existed when they decided to use the DeTomaso name. And then added that they called their new car the P72 because the P70 has a 7.0 liter engine when actually it had a 289. DeTomaso bragged it had 500 hp but that was never proven and unlkely because if you could get that out of a 289 Ford never would have needed to go to a 427 for the Ford GT Mk. II.
     
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    Very much like Thomassima II, which was of course a P3, P4 caricature/rip off.

    I do like this De Tomaso.

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    What's this car based on? Chassis? Drive train?
     
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    chassis is the apollo ie chassis. Engine unknown at this moment. Maybe 488 ferrari v8?
     
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    The P72 prototype shown at Goodwood was running the full Apollo IE powertrain. Apollo IE features a comprehensively reengineered F140 V12 by Autotecnica Motori, which is in itself a development of the motor frankensteined out of the Apollo founder's personal FXX EVO.
     
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    Wow that's a great building block
     
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    Pure beauty, love the lines.
    Does anyone know production #’s?


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    72 production. I’m luke warm with the design until see in person.
     
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