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In 1959 Alejandro De Tomaso, an Argentinan-born car racer founded his own automobile company. The assembly facilities were built in Albareto, a suburb of Modena, just a few miles from where the plant stands today. Legendary cars, among them the fantastic Pantera were created during the next four decades.
Unfortunately, in 1993 Alejandro was struk by a serious illness and in order to let his car survive with him, the founder of De Tomaso had to give up control of the Maserati company and the famous motorcycle maker, Guzzi.
A brief stint with Bruce Qvale, American distributor of the DeTomaso cars resulted in the short-living Qvale Mangusta but DeTomaso now focuses only on the Guará and produces it in tiny numbers.
An agreement was made with the Russian UAZ company in April, 2002 to assemble their Simbir off-roader from the autumn of the same year. Production is planned to reach 10000 units by 2006 when a new UAZ Europe plant will also be operating. By 2004 UAZ production has not started and DeTomaso was put into liquidation. The Guará can still be ordered from the factory even after liquidation.


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