De Tomaso
Among the 15 De Tomaso entries in the MotorJury library, the De Tomaso Pantera holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1971. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the De Tomaso Pantera properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the BMW BMW 5 Series, the American Motors Corporation AMC Gremlin, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Impala — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the De Tomaso Pantera reads like this: the record lists its engine as 302 CID Ford small block engine#302 / Ford 302 V8 engine / V8 (Pantera SI) / 351 CID Ford 335 engine#351 Cleveland / Ford Cleveland V8 / 351 CID Ford small block engine#351W / Ford; quoted output is transmission = 5-speed manual ZF 5DS-25; kerb weight is recorded at 1420 kg – early / 1474 kg – late; drive goes through 5-speed manual ZF 5DS-25; the layout is Rear mid-engine, rear-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within De Tomaso's own catalogue the De Tomaso Pantera sits alongside the De Tomaso 505/38, the De Tomaso Deauville, the De Tomaso Deauville, the De Tomaso F1. The record names the De Tomaso Mangusta as its predecessor and the De Tomaso Guarà as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Tom Tjaarda at Ghia / Marcello Gandini (Pantera SI). Assembly is recorded at Italy: Modena.
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