Mansory’s hits and misses: the good, the bad, and the ugly

I’m sure you agree that Mansory’s Lamborghini Huracan is a good looking car. A slightly modified front splitter here, a large-but-not-ludicrous spoiler there; Mansory’s bodykit managed to frame SantAgata’s Huracan with just the right amount of aggression.

But creations from this German tuner aren’t always as cool as this force-fed Lambo.

This article was updated in April 2020 to reflect further atrocities carried out by Mansory.

Armed with a healthy disregard for preservation, Mansory likes to demonstrate what exactly not to do to your exotic. Many a Bugatti, McLaren and Mercedes-Benz have had their panache buried under layers of garish paint and chrome-finished surfaces.

But it’s not always horror, Mansory has got it right before. And to illustrate the tuning firm’s hit-and-miss history, we’ve chosen nine examples that illustrate the good, bad and ugly this company is capable of.

01 | HIT: Lamborghini Huracan

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With a turbocharger addition that see outputs taken from 449kW to 625kW, the Mansory Huracan was always going to grab headlines even if it didn’t turn out to look so satisfying.

02 | MISS: Ferrari F12 La Revoluzione

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One of the F12 Berlinetta’s defining qualities is its subtlety. Mansory of course had to see to that, and leave it looking as if it was styled to look like Hellboy.

03 | MISS: Bentley Vitesse Rose

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Mansory put a carbon fibre bonnet on a Continental GT, painted it pink and named it the Vitesse Rose. It not only looks like a Paris Hilton special order, but its happy hue was a thorn through everything Bentley stood for. Sadly, or fortunately, only three were made.

04 | HIT: Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Vincero

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The Veyron’s certainly not a pretty car, and Mansory kept that in mind for the Vincero. Rather than highlight its bloated shape with gaudy add-ons, Mansory enhanced it with restrained use of carbon fibre. The wheels looked right, too.

05 | MISS: Mercedes-Benz Benz G63 AMG Gronos

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We don’t know who might think the G63 AMG needs more presence by painting its 2.5-tonne mass bright yellow. But we’re sure we wouldn’t want to.

06| HIT: McLaren MP4-12C

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Keeping to a more cohesive design, Mansory didn’t ruin the McLaren 12C. It instead pumped the car’s guards, fattened its wheels and added a front-splitter and rear wing to help the 12C channel its inner GT3.

07 | MISS: Mercedes-AMG G63 ‘Star Trooper Pickup Edition’

In urban camo, with a tray in ‘forged carbon fibre’, and wheels that look as far from offroad-friendly as we can imagine, the G63 worked by Mansory looks… well, pretty much what you’d expect a modified G-Wagon to look like in the hands of someone with an abundance of wealth and unchecked imagination.

08 | MISS: Lamborgini Urus ‘Venatus’

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The twin-turbo V8-powered Urus was already bumptious, so adding a wing, massive aggro wheels, and a glut of lines and vents was hardly necessary.

All of the carbon fibre parts here are available with or without clear coat, but we wish we could clear our memories after seeing that interior.

09 | HIT: Audi RS6

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While the RS6 is normally a sleeper-type performance car, preying on unsuspecting drivers thanks to its twin-turbo V8, here it’s seen in the hostile guise Mansory saw fit to bestow it.

While we can abide the exterior treatment, some of its interior elements leave much to be desired.

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