OSI Ford 20 M TS

Production period:	1967 to 1968
Class:	sports car
Body versions:	Coupe
Engines:	Gasoline 2.0-2.3 litres (66-79 kW)
Length:	4670 mm
Width:	1808 mm
Height:	1340 mm
Wheelbase:	2705 ​​mm
Curb weight:	1150 kg

The OSI Ford 20 M TS is a coupe of the Italian car manufacturer Officine Stampaggi Industriali (OSI) in the 1960s.

History

Sergio Sartorelli, who also designed the VW Karmann Ghia Type 34, was responsible for the design in 1965. The vehicle was technically based on the Ford 20M and was manufactured between 1967 and 1968.In a few months of work, OSI presented the definitive prototype, with a typically Italian livery designed by Sergio Sartorelli , which was immediately approved by Ford executives and exhibited at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show.

It is a four-seater coupe whose performance, despite its aggressive line, does not differ particularly from that of the model from which it descends, above all for the quality of road holding, affected by an unusually large wheelbase for a sports car. Given the success, at the Turin Motor Show in November 1967, an elegant cabriolet version accompanied the "Ford-Osi Coupé" on the Ford stand and this too attracted a favourable consensus among visitors and the specialized press.

There were 870 cars with two-litre V6 engine Front 4-stroke engine 6 cylinders Vee-slanted at 60° with engine capacity 121.92 cu in, 1,998 cu cm and 9 compression ratios, with max power (SAE) 101 hp at 5,300 rpm and max engine rpm 5,400, 50.6 hp/l specific power. These engines cast iron cylinder block and head 4 crankshaft bearings,1 Solex 32 DDIST downdraught twin barrel carburettor with cooling system by water and driving the rear wheels, via 4-speed fully synchronized mechanical gearbox and central gear lever.

chassis was integral type and independent front suspension, rigid axle on rear suspension, telescopic dampers, recirculating ball steering gear
front disc brakes, rear drum, with servo. Also 409 made with 2.3-liter V6. 

1967 appeared at the Paris Salon a convertible version of the OSI Ford, which remained a single piece later went bankrupt in 1968 which ended the production. Financially weakened by the huge costs incurred for the concept cars built in previous years, at the end of 1968 the OSI decided to close the automotive sector and continue exclusively in the field of industrial moulds. The production of the "Ford-OSI Coupé" stopped, therefore, in the same year after 2 200 units built and the cabriolet version remained a one-off.