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The Drive
14-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Drive
Basic Is Back: Here Are the De Tomaso P72's Best Throwback Details
The latest car news, reviews, and features. De Tomaso is back with a new production-spec supercar called the P72. Pretty much everybody loves it, and for good reason—it's gorgeous. Not only that, but it's a staunchly old-school affair, rocking a 700-horsepower, 605 lb-ft supercharged 5.0-liter cross-plane Ford Coyote V8 that's been tuned by Roush and mated to a six-speed manual transmission. Officially billed as 'a tribute to an era when man and machine moved in perfect harmony,' this glorious, screen-free exercise in nostalgia is stubbornly analog in its details, too; you could almost call it basic. But, if you haven't heard, basic is cool again. Here are four refreshingly throwback touches on the P72 that deserve to make a comeback on performance cars that aren't Italian carbon unobtanium. The inclusion of a manual gearbox would be analog enough on its own, but De Tomaso went several steps further by blessing the P72 with a shifter linkage that's completely and beautifully exposed. De Tomaso Granted, that other boutique Italian supercar maker Pagani has been doing similar shifters for a while, but it doesn't make the P72's setup any less glorious. Also, there's something to be said about this one's swoopy, very extra, almost art deco brushed-bronze style that you don't get with the Paganis. Like pretty much every performance car post-S2000 and every car period post, like, 2012, the P72 appears to feature push-button start. Note the 'START' button in the center of the row of five located below the three analog dials (more on those later). Look to the left of this, however, is something many modern drivers have not seen in a while: a slot for a key. Top Gear got hands-on with this car and detailed the start-up process: Place the leather-lined key fob into the little triangular recessed section aft of the gear knob and press down. Remove the milled physical key into the steering-column slot and twist. Press the START button. Unnecessary? Yes. Convoluted? Sure, maybe a little. Cool as hell? You bet. De Tomaso As another wholly unnecessary but pointed design decision, the P72 dedicates a whole lot of dashboard real estate to three analog gauges measuring oil pressure, oil temperature, and battery voltage. It's a classic race car layout stemming from an era of mostly endurance racers in which keeping an eye on that stuff really mattered. It trickled into road-going performance cars around the '60s and stuck around for a while, but these days, its inclusion is mostly a nostalgia play. The old Datsun 240Z famously had a rendition of this, as did every Z car that followed, including the new one you can likely find at your local Nissan dealer. So, yeah, there's one thing the new Nissan Z has in common with the De Tomaso P72. Arguably popularized by the likes of BMW and later adopted by almost every new car available no matter how pedestrian, drive modes surprisingly aren't a thing with the P72. Granted, the push-rod suspension system features dampers that are manually adjustable, but that's it. No knobs or buttons that alter throttle response, steering weight, or how red your gauges are. You just get in it and drive. On specs and facts alone, De Tomaso's new baby sounds like it'll be a car you'll want to drive, too, 'cause it's built around a carbon unibody monocoque, the entire body is also carbon, and its Ford-sourced V8 is assembled by hand and is said to feature a header design inspired by the '60s. The six-speed manual's gear ratios were tuned for entertaining in-gear performance, not top speed. True to its name, only 72 of these things will ever be made, but between this and that one electric truck everybody won't stop talking about, basic is back and hopefully the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini will jump on the bandwagon soon. Got a tip or question for the author about the P72? You can reach him here: Chris Tsui is The Drive's Reviews Editor. He oversees the site's car reviews operation in addition to pitching in on industry news and writing his own evaluations of the latest rides. He lives in Toronto.
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Dollahite Racing to field Mustang GT3 in GT World Challenge America
Dollahite Racing has announce it will enter a newly developed Ford Mustang GT3s in the SRO GT World Challenge America powered by AWS for 2025 for driver Scott Dollahite, with a second driver to be named at a later date. 'We believe that the Mustang is the best platform on the grid while we also recognize there is a lot of work ahead to dial in the full potential of the car,' team president Bill Dollahite said. 'We have very talented and committed people in our organization dedicated to this and our direct collaboration with Ford and Multimatic as well as their global customers will help us get an understanding of the car much quicker.' The Mustang GT3, which made its debut at Le Mans in 2024, is powered by a 5.4-liter naturally aspirated Ford Coyote V8 engine strikingly similar to the commercially available Mustang Dark Horse model. In the Rolex 24 At Daytona, two of the new Mustang GT3s took a win and third-place finish in the GTD PRO class, having qualified first and second. 'In all my years of racing, I've never experienced the level of commitment and support that both Ford and Multimatic are putting toward this program,' said Dollahite, who will also serve as team manager. 'We are equally committed to making our collaboration with them one of the best in the 2025 GT World Challenge America championship.' Team engineer, Michael Skinner said, 'What Ford and Multimatic have created in the Mustang GT3 is an engineer's dream. Having their level of support and collaboration between their global customers will certainly elevate everyone's success.' The SRO GT World Challenge America powered by AWS season gets underway March 28-30 at Sonoma Raceway. Story originally appeared on Racer
