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AMSTERDAM - The young car connoisseur thinks when they hear the name directly on a Volkswagen Bora. The older lover thinks the name "Bora" resolutely to the brand Maserati. Nice, that age difference.
The Maserati Bora was built between 1971 and 1978. During those years, a total of 564 Bora's leave the factory, of which 289 copies of the 4.7l and 275 pieces of the 4.9L. The latter model is built from 1974 to 1978 and had the internal code name Tipo AM117.49. He came on the market with a 330 hp 4.9 liters V8 engine (block corner 90 °) which sports a top speed of 288 km / h could get.
Incidentally, there is also a race of the Bora version built. That was in 1973 after the French importer Thepenier had submitted a request to participate in the Group Four. But participation was never even had nothing to do with the technique. Engineers knew from the 430 hp achtpitter to retrieve. The problem was all in the production number. Maserati did in those years, 500 units of the model to wear which approval was forthcoming. Moreover, it was during an oil crisis and the then new tax obligations of the Italian Government have also made a real cut in the market for sports cars.
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