Maserati Kyalami

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The Maserati Kyalami (named after South Africa´s Formula 1 circuit) was a new model rushed into production after Alessandro de Tomaso took helm of the company. De Tomaso, never shy of copying anything good (confer his Deauville, a smoothed-out copy of Jaguar´s XJ 6, or his sports car prototype shown at the Turin Salon in 1974, a virtual carbon copy of Fiat´s X1/9), here copied his own De Tomaso Longchamp, itself a copy of the Mercedes 350 SL. The Kyalami, a two-seater notchback coupe, was available with Maserati´s 4.7 and 4.9 litre V-8 enginges and stayed in production until 1982.

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