This is the season of ESC calibration on ice and throwing snowflakes roosters, otherwise known as winter testing. Audi loves to throw white walls in northern Sweden, the way it is with 2023 E-Tron electricity intersection. De Tomaso Automobili seems to prefer Switzerland, having taken its upcoming P72 coupe to an alpine valley for winter exercises. The best thing about what is essentially another snow drifting video is the sound of the engines. The P72’s curves are straight out of 1965 and some enthusiasts may not be nostalgic for them. The rumble from the mid-mounted turbocharger Ford The 5.0-liter Coyote V8 that De Tomaso and Roush Performance further tweaked into something classic and confusing, well, that should get near unanimous agreement.
De Tomaso said supercar and hypercar the big engine production trend “has nothing to do with the ethos of this project and what we’re trying to achieve.” Obviously noise is very involved. You wouldn’t suspect Coyote breathing through a Roots-style turbocharger, but this is the case. Roush has tweaked the blower for faster operation, better airflow and thermal efficiency, while minimizing noise and vibration, the latter to emphasize the “classic American V8 soundtrack” and suction spirit. ’60s natural gas. Assuming the A/V team didn’t play with the turbocharger sound levels when editing vids, the P72 became a lot more appealing knowing it was going to cause some old jitters. through its top-mounted exhaust. We’ve been told that output will eventually come out somewhere north with 700 horsepower and 608 pound-feet of torque, the red line already scheduled to exceed 7,500 rpm.
The letter P in the coupe’s alphanumeric name represents the Prototipo in the name of the original De Tomaso race car Since the 1960s, the number 72 represents how many of these will be produced. Surname valued at 700,000 euros per year ($763,000) last year, but a lot has happened since then, so that could be adjusted upwards. Not that the target demo will be of much interest.
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