Maybe, baby
Maybe everything will be alright. There is a nice little hut at the Nürburgring where de Tomaso wants to build all the new cars that are still to come together with Capricorn (what a contrast to: the ruin of de Tomaso). Capricorn, although not beyond all doubt, can be trusted to be able to do this – although there is a shortage of skilled workers everywhere. And with the de Tomaso P900, they have already shouldered a project that is quite something.
First of all, there is the body, which is made entirely of carbon fibre laminate. There are specialists who can do this, but they can be counted on a few hands and are probably currently busy with the new hypercars/LMDh racing car for next season. The design of the P900 is rather wild, has a distant resemblance to the first de Tomaso project P72 (which in turn is supposed to be based on the former P70) and exists only in renderings for the time being.
The engine is also only a dream so far. It is supposed to be a 6.2-litre V12 with 900 hp and a revving speed of up to 12’300 rpm, but it is supposed to weigh only 225 kilos. Such information will drive Gordon Murray up the wall, because his Cosworth V12 in the GMA T.50 only turns 12,100 rpm. And it is even heavier than the P900, which is said to weigh only 900 kilos. But Murray’s marvel has one decisive advantage: it drives.
The de Tomaso is also supposed to drive soon, still without the V12, but with a Judd V10, very similar to the one Benetton used in Formula 1 in 1997 (yes, that was 25 years ago). Whether the price of three million dollars applies to the V12 or the V10, we don’t know now either. There are supposed to be 18 of the de Tomaso P900, so it doesn’t really qualify for our little collection of (unsuccessful) hyper/supercars. But let’s have a look – for example in our archive.
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