Pantera approaches...............?

Rossignolo has announced he is planning to unveil a renewed model of its legendry sports car at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2011

I read in one of the articles discussing the new Pantera that the price of their new supercar will be priced at about 250,000.00 Euro. Translated into US currency we're talking appx $360,000 folks. Yikes.

David

If the car is $360,000, then it's not really a continuation of the Panteras we love in my opinion. Maybe somewhere in the $90,000 range. Panteras cost double what a Corvette cost in the early 70's I think.

Good luck to them. They face some really stiff competition.

If you are comparing prices from yesteryear of the last Pantera models produced to their contemporary sports car competitors at that time, the GT5-S in the late 80's sold for about $80,000 or so I believe, about the same price as the Porsche 911 Turbo. Adjusting for inflation and the value of the dollar from the mid to late 1980's, you'll find the value of the dollar has just about doubled from then till now. In other words, it would cost $160,000 to buy today what 80k bought in the late '80s. And to illustrate that the above numbers jive, a brand new Porsche 911 Turbo today cost about 160k.

Thus, if the new Pantera was to stay in the same price range as they were in the late '80's, the new Pantera should have a price target of around $160k or so. But with the sticker price of the new Pantera supercar to be set at around $360,000 apparently the gloves are off and they want to compete head to head against the Ferrari's and the Lambo's.

At a price that high, the best I can do now is buy the poster of the new Pantera supercar, just like I did when I was a kid, when I hung a picture of a Countach and a group 4 on my bedroom wall.

But its not all bad. With an all new Pantera supercar coming out with a price tag of $360k, surely it puts the marquee in the same class with the best supercars in the world.

David

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Panteras cost double what a Corvette cost in the early 70's I think.

A Corvette cost ~$5,600 in 1971.

John

I bought a late 1970 Covette $5,400 just after the Pantera came out! I wanted the Pantera but the just under 10 grand price tag put a stop to that!

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Originally posted by jb1490:

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Panteras cost double what a Corvette cost in the early 70's I think.

A Corvette cost ~$5,600 in 1971.

John

Yes but take a AlfaRomeo 8C Competizione as an example of a comparable car, it's MSRP is 240K. Watch it on the dyno here. http://www5.yidio.com/alfa-rom...id/36028848521924080