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Past Gas

S1 Ep52: DeTomaso: The Supercar Designer Who Befriended Dictators

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.97.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today on Past Gas, the story of Alejandro de Tomaso, a car-making wheeler-dealer who rubbed elbows with Che Guevera and Elvis Presley. How did this Argentinean playboy build some of the most memorable supercars in auto history, save Maserati from extinction, and survive countless failed business ventures? Was de Tomaso a revolutionary or a failure? A genius or con man? The answer might be all of the above.

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0:21.1

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:24.1

My name is Nolan.

0:25.1

From past gasp by Dunant Media, we are an automotive history show.

0:28.7

It's kind of like hand that garage with your friends, listening to them tell a great

0:32.0

story from automotive history.

0:33.7

On our next episode of past gas, the year is 1870, and a samurai has just started a

0:38.8

trading operation in a Japan still coming to grips with the modern world.

0:43.3

Through hard work, ingenious engineering, and perhaps more than a little war profiteering,

0:48.0

that company would later grow to be Mitsubishi, one of the largest companies in one of the

0:52.7

world's largest economies.

0:54.7

Now how did sales plummet to just 15% of their peak in a few short years?

0:58.8

How did the company watch Volkswagen's diesel gate unfold and then top it?

1:03.4

And is Mitsubishi responsible for the trend of naming mid-size crossovers after once

1:07.8

iconic performance models?

1:09.8

All that and more on this week's past gas as we learn about the rise and fall of Mitsubishi.

1:21.6

We talk a lot about revolutionary car makers on this show, but rarely are those people

1:26.8

actual revolutionaries.

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