Italian Sports Car : Pantera DeTomaso

Pantera DeTomaso 1972

Pantera DeTomaso, The Pantera was a sports car company of Italy De Tomaso car produced from 1971 to 1991, with the last one to a customer has made during 1992. The word “Pantera” is Italian for “Panther”.

The car was born from the American designer Tom Tjaarda developed and replace the De Tomaso Mangusta. Unlike the Mangusta, which uses a backbone of steel chassis, the Pantera was a steel monocoque design, the first copy of De Tomaso with this construction technique. It made its first public appearance in March 1970 in Modena and was the 1970 New York Auto Show a few weeks later,. Approximately one year after the start of production Pantera its way into the hands of customers and production is already a remarkable run (by the standards of the Modena-built Exotica) 3 per day.

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Rolls Royce Phantom 2003

The Rolls Royce Phantom VII British sedan is a automobile made by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, in England. It was launched in 2003. The Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé, and the Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé, are both based on the 2003 Phantom.

The Rolls Royce Phantom uses a unique chassis platform, body, interior, and retains traditional Rolls-Royce design cues. The body is mostly aluminium.
Final assembly, including all body, paint, wood, and leather work, is completed to each customer’s individual specification at the Rolls-Royce plant in Goodwood, West Sussex. The plant is down the street from the historic Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit.

The plant contains the paint shop, body shop, leather shop, woodworking shop, assembly line, and executive offices under one roof. There are only two robots in the factory. The two robots paint the body; the paint is polished by hand after the robots spray each coat. The coachlines, which are exactly 3mm wide, are also done, as well as all other work is done, by hand, in keeping with the Rolls-Royce tradition.

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