Panther Solo

The Panther Solo was a mid-engined sports car developed by the British Panther Car Company in the 1980s as a modern replacement for the Kallista. The first design, the Solo 1, used a 1.6 litre Ford CVH engine and was a rear-drive two-seater, but Young Kim of Panther judged it unable to match the new Toyota MR2 and had it redesigned. The Solo 2 was a four-wheel-drive 2+2 with a turbocharged 2.0 litre engine from the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth giving 204 horsepower, a stretched wheelbase and a composite body developed with March Engineering. Only about a dozen cars were sold to customers before SsangYong, then Panther's owner, ended production in 1990, and SsangYong later showed a Solo 3 concept in 1995 that was never built.