Panoz Avezzano 2017

[All Your Base]

Panoz Avezzano '17

Panoz Press Release:
The Avezzano is based on a successful Panoz GT-class endurance race car that’s never been produced for the street – until now.

The new-for-2017 Avezzano features a superformed aluminum body like the Panoz AIV Roadster and the Esperante. But underneath will be a new generation of the Panoz-engineered and designed high-strength aluminum-intensive chassis. Our expertise with carbon fiber and other strong-and light composites further enriches the Avezzano’s sports car DNA.

True to the Panoz Extreme Personalization approach, customers can choose among a range of Avezzano engine and transmission combinations, as well as many interior and exterior upgrades to ensure no two are exactly alike. Plans are for engines ranging from 450-plus to more than 630 horsepower.

More details about this exciting new sports car will be available at Panoz.com very soon.

Specs:
Engine: 4.6 liter Modular V8 (most likely)
Power: 450 HP-630 HP

Photos:

 

[The Vanishing Boy]

-> This is the "true" Esperante Coupe we've been waiting for all this time!

 

[Sinyster]

Got to see this bad boy at the Petit LeMans last weekend, absolute beauty!

 

[Aero2000]

What a nice car, I really hope it comes to the GT-series

 

[catamount39]

Hope it comes to GT and to IMSA.

 

[ClydeYellow]

Can anybody please explain me why Danny Panoz is so enamoured with the South-Central Italian region of Abruzzo? First there was the Abruzzi, now it's the Avezzano?

The car looks like it's straight out of Ridge Racer V, and probably drives like that, too. So it's a vote from me.

 

[Northstar]

Can anybody please explain me why Danny Panoz is so enamoured with the South-Central Italian region of Abruzzo? First there was the Abruzzi, now it's the Avezzano?

His father grew up in Avezzano, I don't know the story behind the Abruzzi's name.

 

[ClydeYellow]

His father grew up in Avezzano, I don't know the story behind the Abruzzi's name.

Oooh. I just found out that Panoz is an abbreviation of Panunzio. I had no clue Panoz was an Italian-American!