2.0L V8, with fuel injection, 16 spark plugs and chain-driven dual overhead cams, producing 260 horsepower, and with a redline of 10,000 RPM.
It weighed just 1500 lbs, was constructed largely of magnesium alloys to save weight, and cost over $17,000. To put that in perspective, the average house in 1968 cost about $15,000, the average annual income was around $7,000, and the average car cost about $2,800. In the world before mega-dollar supercars, this was the prototype. They built 18 of them.