RE: You Know You Want To...DeTomaso Guara

[B10]

Carnnoisseur said:

Looks like an improved TR7.......(if there is such a thing)......

I would sooner have the TR7 interior though.

[thewheelman]

Interesting comparisons on the styling cues, i see maybe a touch of Bugatti EB110, & a little bit of Alfa Romeo RZ.

[Adrian W]

Looks just like a Harrier, think they were all race cars

[pj77]

I registered on PH just to share that this particular car has been for sale for about 2 years now.

The seller has a showroom which regularly has some nice cars for sale (I remember seeing a DB7, a Cerbera and a Murcielago) but has had some trouble selling this particular car I think. Originally the car was on German transfer plates - so i assume the car has some German history. Not being able to sell the thing for such a long time doesn't bode well for this car though.

[The Danimal]

Guara... wasn't that an ingredient of those late-nineties Cadbury's Boosts with the green wrapper?

[thewheelman]

The Danimal said:

Guara... wasn't that an ingredient of those late-nineties Cadbury's Boosts with the green wrapper?

Close, guarana.

[bob1179]

I'm in two minds about it, but it is certainly different. Is the centre console from a mark three Astra? Those vents look very familiar!

I'd love to know more about the car mind, the 4.0 M60 V8 is a wonderful engine.

[dirtbiker]

Interior looks like a nice place to be, just a shame about view from the back!

[LHD]

NORFOLK!

PH's own De Tomaso masochist has one.

[ukmike2000]

Not wasted a lot of effort on styling have they? Looks very 1980's. PASS!

[y2blade]

"You Know You Want To"...says who?

funny enough not many of us do actually...PASS

[Transmitter Man]

Mike & Blade - you really don't mean that do you?

Rob's blue car does look better, especially in the flesh.

Here's another blue car.



Rob got a great deal at I believe circa £30K.

Me likes very much.

Phil

Edited by Transmitter Man on Monday 12th September 15:27

Edited by Transmitter Man on Monday 12th September 15:29

[Ozzie Osmond]

Every bit as expensive and horrid as the thoroughly nasty Bugatti EB110.

[Pothole]

Those would be MARCHESINI wheels, the originals!

[Goldmember1]

Hugo a Gogo said:

looks a bit like The Wraith

paint it black and get a black race suit and helmet

That takes me back to my childhood! Thought it was so cool back then !

Sorry got sidetracked there.. V8 yes .. that ugly no , sorry

[Itsallicanafford]

Ozzie Osmond said:

Every bit as expensive and horrid as the thoroughly nasty Bugatti EB110.

...nasty looking the EB110, but with a V12 and 4 turbos, you got to love it....

[Twincam16]

Ex Boy Racer said:

How high is the body on that Pantera? Suspension obviously set up for fat americans...

Hardly - it's illegal for use in America. Says so in the handbook.

[Twincam16]

ukmike2000 said:

Not wasted a lot of effort on styling have they? Looks very 1980's. PASS!

It's pure aerodynamics though. I agree it's not 'pretty', but there's a simplicity about it that's preferable to a lot of the over-complicated messes passing for 'gorgeous supercars' these days.

[Verde]

Just goes to prove that a brilliant world-class designer working with a famous sports car house to create a low-volume supercar does not always yield a winner.

[Twincam16]

Verde said:

Just goes to prove that a brilliant world-class designer working with a famous sports car house to create a low-volume supercar does not always yield a winner.

To be fair, it was a lack of money at De Tomaso, plus Fiat snaffling Maserati (they'd planned to take the Maserati Chubasco/Barchetta to Le Mans, but as soon as Fiat bought Maserati the racing budget was no longer there) that put paid to it not 'winning'.