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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
13-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Is This Pagani Hot Enough to Melt the ICE at St. Moritz Concours?
Exotic hypercar maker Pagani will show off its new Utopia Roadster next Friday and Saturday at The ICE St. Moritz (International Concours of Elegance) on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21 and 22. The roadster will be one of several Paganis new and old, dating all the way back to a blue Zonda S 7.3 that debuted 22 years ago in nearby Geneva. Photos of the Utopia Roadster debuted last summer, and the specs were typically Pagani promising: 852-hp twin-turbo V-12 without hybrid assist, but with a manual option. Only 130 are slated to be produced, at a sticker price of $3.4 million. The St. Moritz showing is promised as a "dynamic debut," which could mean it'll just be driven into the show, or it could mean the supercar may take some laps around the ICE festival's frozen course. We'll know tomorrow. In any case, it'll be nice to see it among the various Paganis present. "The showcased model (Utopia Roadster) embodies Horacio Pagani's vision, a tribute to the past projected into the future," Pagani says of the Utopia. "Its body, finished in glossy Verde Mara, draws inspiration from the model car he built as a child in Argentina—still preserved at the Horacio Pagani Museo—enhanced by Grigio Montecarlo details." The Utopia is the successor to the Pagani Huayra, introduced in coupe form in 2022. Other Paganis on hand will include the Huayra Epitome—also promised in both static and dynamic form—as well as a Huayra R and a Zonda S 7.3. The ICE St. Moritz is part of a weekend-long celebration of winter sports that began in the 1920s with skiers towed behind horses. It evolved into skiers towed behind Porsches and has now expanded to include all manner of ice races for classic and modern cars, as well as this concours. St. Moritz lies midway between Milan and Innsbruck in the Swiss Alps. Flights are cheap. You have a week. Get going!This one-off Hypercar comes from Grandi Complicazioni, the name of Pagani's division "dedicated to ultra-limited series projects that push the boundaries of technology, entrusted to only a handful of the world's most skilled artisans."The only production Pagani available with a manual transmission, the seven-speed stick shift is mated to a twin-turbo 6.0-liter V-12 making 852 hp. The Epitome wears unique carbon-fiber exposed shifter gate is a Pagani point of Pagani Huayra R is a track-only hypercar with a 6.0-liter V12. It succeeds the Pagani Zonda R and is considered the most extreme Pagani ever car's naturally aspirated V12 generates 850 hp and 553 lb-ft of is 9,000 weighs 2,315 pounds, Pagani the topless follow-up to the Utopia coupe that was revealed back in 2022, Car and Driver said when it debuted. Pagani meticulously redesigned the carbon-titanium monocoque for maximum rigidity without adding weight. That means the Utopia Roadster isn't any heavier than its coupe counterpart, which Pagani claims weighs a feathery 2,822 pounds without any its fixed-roof sibling, the Utopia Roadster is among the few new hypercars that doesn't have a hybrid powertrain. Another anomaly is that it caters to purists by offering a seven-speed manual transmission. The stick-shift setup routes power from the twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V-12 to the rear wheels. Developed by Mercedes-AMG, the Utopia's hand-assembled engine makes a hefty 852 hp at 6,000 rpm and 811 lb-ft of torque from 2,800–5,900 can skip the Utopia's third pedal and opt for the seven-speed automatic, which allows paddle-shifted gear changes. Pagani didn't share any performance estimates, but it did quote the droptop's electronically limited top speed of 217 mph.A manual transmission is a rarity in today's Zonda S 7.3, chassis number 20, debuted at the 2003 Geneva Motor particular model stands out with its Blu Francia exterior and ivory and nubuck leather also features exclusive wheels with blue-painted spokes—a unique detail created specifically for this built to a customer's specifications, it was later reacquired by Horacio Pagani to preserve its history and maintain its deep connection with the Pagani Atelier.
