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De Tomaso Guará Spyder - an underrated rarity

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Created on August 9, 2018

Reading time 6min

Written by:

Bruno von Rotz

Photos:

Tim Scott - Courtesy RM/Sotheby's

Carlo Gaino, Synthesis design

Wolfram Hamann

Synthesis Design

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Tim Scott - Courtesy RM/Sotheby's

Carlo Gaino, Synthesis design

Wolfram Hamann

Synthesis Design

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - attraktiver offener Mittelmotorwagen

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - die Rundumsicht dürfte mit Kapuze deutlich leiden

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - 4,19 m lang ist der Mittelmotorsportwagen

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - 2,03 m breit, mit oder ohne Rückspiegel

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - dicke Auspuffrohre lassen eine erfeulichen Tonkulisse erhoffen

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - knappes Verdeck

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - die Farbwahl dürfte nicht jedermanns Geschmack sein

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - die Instrumente kommen von BMW, das Lenkrad von Momo

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - der Tacho reicht bis 300 km/h

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - Ledersitze mit viel Seitenhalt

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - Handbremse zwischen Tür und Fahrersitz

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - Fahrzeugbezeichnung auf den Schwellern

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - gelochte Aluminium-Pedalerie

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - der V8-Motor stammt von BMW

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - Chassis-Plakette

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - zumindest Teile des Wagens wurden bereits 1995 gebaut

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - das De-Tomaso-Zeichen auf dem Bug

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - Kofferraum gibt's vorne keinen, dafür sieht man den Rohrrahmen

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - schön geformte Rückspiegel

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - die Räder kamen von Marchesini

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - der Besitzer liess hinten einen Kofferraum einbauen

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - De-Tomaso-Schriftzug auf dem Heck

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De Tomaso Guará (1998) - die Typenbezeichnung am Heck

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Maserati Barchetta (1993) - Stradale-Version

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De Tomaso Guará (1993) - Entwurfszeichnungen für die Coupé-Version

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De Tomaso Guará (1992) - Zeichnung der Barchetta-Version

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De Tomaso Guará (1993) - Zeichnung der Coupé-Version

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De Tomaso Guará (1993) - Entwurf einer Targavariante, die so nicht umgesetzt wurde

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De Tomaso Guará (1993) - Präsentation der Barchetta

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De Tomaso Guará (1993) - Blick auf die geöffnete Barchetta

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De Tomaso Guara Barchetta (1995) - Nummer 6 von sieben gebauten Exemplaren - InterClassics Maastricht 2018

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De Tomaso Guará (1994) - ein wirklich attraktiver Sportwagen

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De Tomaso Guará (1994) - Heckansicht des Coupés

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De Tomaso Guará (1994) - die rundliche Front des Coupés

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De Tomaso Guará (1994) - aufgenommen in Italien, man beachte den Mini De Tomaso im Hintergrund

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De Tomaso Guará (1994) - Heckabschluss des Coupés

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De Tomaso Guará (1994) - Scheibenwischer-Konstruktion

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De Tomaso Guará (1994) - Design von Synthesis

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Summary

With only four examples built, the De Tomaso Guará Spyder is certainly one of the rarest series-produced sports cars of the nineties. It also looks good and, thanks to BMW and F1 technology, everything under the plastic skin is state-of-the-art. This vehicle report tells the story of this rare sports car, whose roots go back to the sixties.

This article contains the following chapters

Heirloom?
Barchetta, Coupé, Spyder
BMW as a parts supplier
Test drive in the Coupé under special circumstances
The attractive Spyder
From BMW to Ford
A special Guará
Further information

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The heyday of the De Tomaso brand was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Alejandro De Tomaso took on the established sports cars from Ferrari and Lamborghini with the Mangusta and Pantera models, even though "only" a large series V8 from Ford provided propulsion in front of the rear axle. In 1975, De Tomaso bought the Maserati brand from Citroën in a consortium with a state-owned industrial holding company. At the beginning of the 1980s, the former racing driver launched the successful Maserati Biturbo, a volume model with which the sports car company from Modena achieved previously unattainable production figures.

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