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The Italdesign Maya is a realistic prototype, thought for a little daily production, designed to keep industrial investment quite curbed. The line is typically wedged and reminds prototypes like the Mangusta, Boomerang or Tapiro, but it is smoother and guarantees a 0,28 cx. Created for American market, the front has a soft-nose bumper, plastic and capable of being deformed material filled with polyurethane resins. Inside, the steering wheel is equipped with a disc containing all the car controls. The engine, with a transversal driving axle, is a Ford USA experimental prototype, 3 litres, 60° 6V cylinders, 4 valves for each cylinder and 250 hp.
After prototypes of Lotus Etna and Maya premiered at Turin Motor Show, Ford requested the development of a model with a modified design (Maya II ES) and of a spare car with longitudinal engine (Maya II EM). The Maya general architecture remained the same, but the lines were smoother, Ford requests are especially bounded to particular solutions like the use of a central air intake like the one used for Ferrari. It is curious to know the story of the painting: Ford wanted a flaming red, but when Maya II ES came back to Italdesign, it was immediately re-painted in two different tones of metal grey.
Painted in Ferrari red, Maya II EM is finished in July 1985 and immediately moved to USA at Dearborn, headquarter of Ford. Unlike the Maya, the great engine hood wedged at the end of the roof disappear, and substituted with a door. Even the second light disappears, substituted with three vertical slits. The engine is a Ford 6V 3 litres, 300 hp bi-turbocharged.
Max Power: 250 hp
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