Panoz Deltawing GT for the road: Dart-shaped sports car to be launched
Deltawing Technology Group, who own US-based Panoz, plan on building a sports car and a four-seater saloon, although no timescale has yet been announced
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Your support makes all the difference.Currently the Panoz Deltawing racer is competing in a sports car championship in the USA, but there are plans to build a road-going sports car built on the same unusual deltawing lines.
Deltawing Technology Group, who own US-based Panoz, plan on building a sports car and a four-seater saloon, although no timescale has yet been announced. Both planned cars will keep the narrow front track and the 30/70% weight distribution front/back of the racer. The idea is to produce a car that can be as fast as its rivals for half the fuel consumption.
It is understood that the cars will have lightweight aluminium chassis with the engines mounted across the rear. The GT sports car two-seater will have a turbocharged four-cylinder engine producing around 340bhp, while the saloon will have a three-cylinder engine producing around 110bhp.
As yet there are no further details on the drivetrains, but it is envisaged that the deltawing vehicles will be powered by a range of engines, including hybrid, electric, petrol and compressed natural gas.
Prices are expected to be in the $60-70,000 area for the GT sports car and $27-30,000 for the four-seater saloon.
Deltawing boss Don Panoz said: “I’m certainly no tree-hugger and have no opinion on global warming, but if you have better fuel economy and lower emissions, then that makes a contribution to society.”
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