{"id":64990,"date":"2021-03-16T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=64990"},"modified":"2021-03-25T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T08:26:17","slug":"50-years-of-maserati-bora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/50-years-of-maserati-bora\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Maserati Bora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, Maserati shocked the experts. For the first time in the history of the brand, a road sports car with a mid-engine was shown. As a subsidiary of Citro\u00ebn, the Modenese manufacturer was doing well financially at the time. New developments were no problem. So the new Bora was quite rightly in the spotlight at the Geneva Motor Show. On March 11, the cloth lifted and a wedge-shaped coup\u00e9 emerged from underneath. Giorgetto Giugiaro, who had set up his own design company Italdesign in 1968, was responsible for the design. He integrated folding pop-up headlights, which were very much in demand at the time, into the flat front end. Behind the doors were side windows and a large glazed tailgate. This created the impression of a classic trunk. Another unusual feature was the roof, which was finished in unpainted stainless steel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V8 engine with 4.7 (later 4.9) liters displacement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As early as the late 1960s, Maserati had asked Giugiaro for this Project 117. The aim was to transfer the mid-engine concept from motorsport to the road. Up to that point, there had been only a few truly exotic cars like the De Tomaso Mangusta or the Lamborghini Miura with this engine arrangement. However, the Bora was deliberately more of a dignified GT sports car for long travels and less of a wild supercar. Behind the two passengers sat a specially developed 4.7-liter V8 engine with 228 kW\/310 hp. In combination with the five-speed transmission, the rear axle differential and the rear suspension, the power unit forms a removable, rubber-mounted driving stool. Maserati quoted 6.5 seconds for the sprint to 62 mph. In 1976, the displacement was increased to 4.9 liters and the power to 243 kW\/330 hp. This also increased the topspeed from 260 to 265 kph (161.5 to 164.6 mph). For the first time, Maserati used independent suspensions all around in a road sports car.<\/p>\n\n\n

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