I have a friend that has an older Avanti when I was looking at the 2007 what do I see, the inside is almost the same as the Mustang. A lot of the same parts. Also it has a 300HP 4.6 whit 320 tq. Then I see that in 2004 they changed to a Ford platform. Is this just a Mustang with a Avanti body?



http://www.avantimotors.com/avantiphotogallery.html#
S-197

 

Looks like a rebodied Mustang. They used to build these on the Camaro and I used to think that the Avanti body work actually improved the Camaro. But on the Mustang



I was wondering how they were going to hide the Mustang's unique quarter window (no other car today looks anything like it) It looks like they cut the roof off after the B pillar and graft the Camaro B pillar and rear window on ...

 

Same mirrors as the stang as well, fords gotta start making money somewhere to stay afloat

 

That's nuts! Good find.

 

This car is just idiot ugly. At the end of the day, how can you look at something like this and actually want to tell people you bought it.

 

 

OMG! Fugly!

 

I think that's on the same level of uglyness as the catfish mustang

 

I would say uglier at least the catfish can be fixed with some take off parts

 

I hadn't seen these. Last I knew they were on the old Firebird platform. I grew up in South Bend, where Studebaker originally built them, and where they were built until the middle 80's. It is nice to see that someone is still playing with them.


1963 Studebaker Avanti
(check out the wheels, even they look the same)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker_Avanti
I guess they are gone already!

 

We used to have an Avanti dealer in town here until about 10 years ago. These cars were waaaaay ahead of their time in the early 1960's - especially the R3 and R4 models which packed supercharged 289 cubic inch V8's. Very unique look that is obviously polarizing (love it or hate it). I actually like them, and have known a couple people over the years who've owned them (one had an original '63 Studebaker Avanti, while the other had a GM-chassis Avanti from the early '80's).

I'm really curious how pricing is now for a new one. I'm assuming that a custom coachbuilder charges a lot, so it likely doubles or triples the price of the donor Mustang underneath the skin - much like Fiskar does when he rebodies a BMW Z8 or Mercedes product.

 

"Polarizing" is the right word. I think I singed my retinas.

 

They are still making Avantis. Here is their website:

http://www.avantimotors.com/avanticompany.html

 

A September 5, 2007, SEC complaint accuses Michael Eugene Kelly of running a $428 million dollar fraud scheme. Avanti Motor Corp is named as a relief defendant, alleging that auto maker illegally received more than $7.3 million from Resort Holdings International. Kelly has been in custody since Dec 22, 2006 and all Avanti facilities are closed.

 

Ok, I can understand the respect for the car based on the fact that it was pretty advanced in the '60s. But why did the development stop there? Why no significant change to the look for decades? I don't get it. Even our Mustangs, while looking backward, also look much more forward than this IMHO (there are some similar line characteristics, but my 08 does not look like a 65-66, and no one would ever confuse it). It's the natural order of things. I guess there are some cars that are reproduced from a certain point in their development over time (MG comes to mind), but this doesn't strike me a classic, enduring, I-must-have-this-exact-model kind of a car to have changed the exterior look so little. Love it or hate it is exactly right. To each their own, but I'm not for it at all.

 

I dont think i could design an uglier grille if i tried.

 

what the crap???

This is a weird thing to look at. why all that effort to do nothing but change the body??

 

Good question, If you asked 100 different members of the automotive press to name the weakest points of the current mustang. I bet you not one would say exterior styling.

 

Seriously! The outside is arguably the most universally accepted characteristic for the "best" part of the new mustangs.

They could have actually done something with what they started with.. but this really just kinda sucks

 

I'd like to have an original Avanti with the dual Paxton set up...Granatelli was responsible for that effort