Fun fact.

"not for canada - australian in disguise" (for-canada) 02/08/2018 at 12:59 • Filed to: None

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The bumper of the De Tomaso Deauville moves with the hood when you open the hood. This is a completely useless fact.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > not for canada - australian in disguise 02/08/2018 at 13:09

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Fun fact, I’ve owned two cars with forward opening hoods:

not for canada - australian in disguise > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 02/08/2018 at 13:18

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Forward-opening hoods are best hoods.

functionoverfashion > not for canada - australian in disguise 02/08/2018 at 13:20

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should start at 16:48....

kanadanmajava1 > not for canada - australian in disguise 02/08/2018 at 14:03

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Useless facts are the best. A Citroën GS does the same with its rear bumper. The corner parts still stay in place.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 02/08/2018 at 14:19

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Now the Corvair is just cheating... It has to open in the opposite direction of the conventional direction.

I’ll let this one pass

Chariotoflove > kanadanmajava1 02/08/2018 at 14:25

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This is fantastic for loading big stuff!

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > kanadanmajava1 02/08/2018 at 14:34

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oh my that is wonderful!

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > winterlegacy, here 'till the end 02/08/2018 at 15:05

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https://santamaria.craigslist.org/cto/d/corvair-vairster-project/6464495295.html

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > not for canada - australian in disguise 02/08/2018 at 16:12

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The first and second gen RAV4 have the rear bumper integrated into the rear door. This allows for a low flat load floor.

Nauraushaun > not for canada - australian in disguise 02/08/2018 at 17:11

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Just how many models did DeTomaso make? It seems there’s an infinite amount of tiny production cars that nobody had ever heard of.

ranwhenparked > Nauraushaun 02/08/2018 at 18:58

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Like 6 or 7, I think. The Longchamp is my favorite.

Nauraushaun > ranwhenparked 02/08/2018 at 21:40

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I really like the Mangusta, which is like a rare and unloved and poorly built precursor to the Pantera

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. 02/08/2018 at 22:33

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You win this time!

RT > Nauraushaun 02/24/2018 at 20:01

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For most of the 70s and 80s, DeTomaso’s heyday, their lineup consisted of three cars:

Everyone’s favourite, the Pantera, easily their most updated and popular car.

The Longchamp, a rebadged Maserati Kyalami with DeTomaso’s Ford V8 added.

And the aforementioned Deaville, which is even rarer than the Longchamp.

Add the two Pantera predecessors (Vallelunga, Mangusta) and Pantera successors (Guara, Bigua) - and you have every DeTomaso model.

...Sort-of. They made sporty versions of the Innocenti Mini in the 70s and 80s.

Plus they later came up with sporty variants of the Daihatsu Charade, including a cancelled mid-engined Group B version .

All of this only proves that there’s indeed an infinite amount of tiny production cars that nobody had ever heard of.

Nauraushaun > RT 02/24/2018 at 22:01

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Haha! Great job! A CHARADE? IIRC they’re 3-cylinders. How much sportier can they get, even with a turbs?

RT > Nauraushaun 02/25/2018 at 17:43

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How much sportier can they get, even with a turbs?

Much sportier, you don’t need DeTomaso for that.

Meet the GTti, which has a whopping one litre engine.

...But it only weighs 800kg and has an insane output of  0.1hp/per litre . So: it’s a 3-cyl, 1.0 car that went from 0-60 faster than the Golf GTI of its time!

It entered rally races and was competitive with cars of twice the displacement.

Nauraushaun > RT 02/26/2018 at 06:03

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That’s cool.