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De Tomaso Pantera

Italian model of sports car

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The De Tomaso Pantera is a mid-engine sports car produced by Italian automobile manufacturer De Tomaso from 1971 to 1992. Italian for "Panther", the Pantera was the automaker's most popular model, with over 7,000 manufactured over its twenty-year production run. More than three quarters of the production were sold by American Lincoln-Mercury dealers from 1972 to 1975; after this agreement ended De Tomaso kept manufacturing the car in ever smaller numbers into the early 1990s.

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The public source identifies “De Tomaso Pantera” as italian model of sports car. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tomaso, Pantera and Italian.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1992, 1972, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tomaso, Pantera and Italian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “De Tomaso Pantera” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.