News Source: autoblog.com

Panoz has kept the Esperante around for about fourteen years now, making it one of the longer-serving models on the market. But in Monterey this week, the American niche automaker is introducing a revised version of the Esperante that aims to keep it current.

As we've reported twice before, the 25th Anniversary Esperante Spyder – designed to celebrate Panoz's quarter century on the market – encompasses several key upgrades. For starters, its chassis has been reconstructed from a mix of aluminum, carbon fiber and steel, overlaid with either aluminum bodywork (in the base Spyder) or carbon (in the Spyder GT). It also ditches the old 4.6-liter V8 for a newer 5.0 (or available supercharged 5.4), still sourced from Ford, and updates the suspension, brakes and a nice set of BBS wheels to go with it. The interior also gets a new digital instrument gauge and, in this show car, a tan leather interior.

Whether all these changes are enough to keep the Esperante up with the times is a bigger question, but one way or another, it was good to catch this rare American roadster in the metal at McCall's Motorworks Revival.