Order code: | 83801 |
Scale: | 1:18 |
Material: | Resin |
Weight: | 0.9 kg |
Machine manufacturer: | De Tomaso |
After many troubled years, the De Tomaso brand seems to have found a safer location. Together with Gumpert, it now belongs to Ideal Team Ventures Limited based in Hong Kong. It is on a Gumpert base (that of the "Intensa Emozione") that they started to create the contemporary De Tomaso. Designed by Jowyn Wong and called the P72, it aesthetically evokes the 70P of the sixties, a competition sport-prototype that didn't have much luck, and wants to refer to the typical lines of the racing cars of that period. The De Tomaso P72 is equipped with a 5.0-liter supercharged Ford Coyote V8 engine with a compressor produced by the American Roush. The power is around 700 bhp, with a manual transmission, which makes everything even wilder...