The Pantera followed the Mangusta into production after its launch at the New York Auto Show of 1970. De Tomaso had negotiated a collaboration with Ford USA that not only supplied the V8 engines, but also the Lincoln-Mercury dealers to sell the cars. Gianpaolo Dallara provided the pressed steel chassis and engineering to fit the Ford V8 and Tom Tjaarda designed the body. Ford provided the 5.7-litre Cleveland V8 engine, which gave 310bhp in detoxed Federal format and 330 bhp elsewhere. Predicted sales in the 'tens of thousands' failed to materialise because the design of the car had not considered impending Federal safety laws, and by 1975 it needed a complete redesign to comply. The 1973-74 Oil Crisis also hit sales, and perhaps as few as 5600 were sold. Even though America plugged the plug on the Pantera in 1975, It was marketed in the rest of the world until 1991, going onto Australian-sourced 5.0-litre Ford V8 engines. In 1991 The Pantera SI was launched, given a makeover by Marcello Gandini, but was only sold until 1993.