Panoz Auto Development

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Panoz Auto Development Company
legal form
founding 1989
Seat Hoschton , Georgia , USA
management Daniel Panoz
Branch Automobiles
Website www.panoz.com

Panoz Roadster
Panoz Esperante

Panoz Auto Development Company is an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Daniel Panoz founded the company in Georgia on January 25, 1989 . Hoschton and Braselton are named as places . He started with the production of sports and racing cars . The brand name is Panoz .

Road vehicles

The first model Panoz Roadster was created in 1989 from a project taken over from Thompson Manufacturing Co. from Ireland . Initially a V8 engine from Ford with a displacement of 5000 cc powered the roadster . Later Panoz used a smaller V8 engine with 4600 cc and 32 valves. In 1995, Rinspeed developed its Roadster R or SC-R from this model . The initial design with spaceframe frame and aluminum structure gave way to an aluminum frame for the Roadster AIV .

The following Panoz Esperante is described as more conventional. The two-seater roadster has the same engine.

Racing vehicles

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Panoz.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1190. (English)

Web links

Commons : Panoz Auto Development  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Panoz.
  2. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1190. (English)
  3. ↑ a b opencorporates (English, accessed on January 22, 2017)