Mansory Mulsanne announced
Mansory turns its attention to the big Bentley, but why?
Look a little closer though and the telltale signs of a visit from Kourosh Mansory are all there, giving the car "a decent nudge towards enhanced sportiness." Whatever that means.
There's a carbon lip and air inlet covers at the front, carbon skirts at the sides, a new exhaust system underneath and a carbon spoiler and diffuser at the back. There are new, 22-inch wheels as well which, surprisingly enough, are not carbon, instead being forged from a "particularly light' aluminium alloy - crucial on a 2.6-tonne car.
It's also slightly pointless - and not just because it's a luxury limousine with the sporting pretensions of a telephone box - but because Bentley already offers an 811lb ft, 190mph Mulsanne in the shape of the Speed. It even comes with carbon bits.
Which begs the question; if you can buy the same thing from Bentley, why wouldn't you? Unless you want that badly to go against the grain, in which case, why would you buy a Mulsanne at all?
There's no word yet on pricing or availability, but should you be interested in perusing some of Mansory's other offerings there are quite a few in the classifieds... how about that Aventador?
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loving the carbon chin spoiler/splitter, must be the first thing every Mulsanne owners wants. Not sure how it qualifies as a Mansory Mulsanne, its still 99 percent original Bentley.
I suppose it is more difficult these days, Overfinch used to do achingly cool things to Range Rovers, there was a lot of room for improvement in terms of performance so you shoved a yank V8 in, the interior was nice but not super plush, so scope there as well but nowadays JLR do a solid job of finishing their cars and making them perform so along comes Kahn, Mansory, Onyx and the rest of them and it is slim pickings that generally seem to make the base car stand out, but for the wrong reasons, a Kahn RR Sport, to me is the car equivalent of Ali G's tracksuit.
Always think its rather rude to remove the Range Rover badging and replace it with Kahn or whatever, its like the bloke who writes the forward on a novel changing the authors name for his own, but the punters seem to love it, if a RR Sport isnt flash and in your face enough, get one of these outfits to tart it up.
They do seem to attract some utter "Throbbers" (borrowing that word, I quite like it) judging by the way they get parked/driven round here and the one I saw the other day with a silver on black reg plate, dont think it was pre 1975 being as it was a new model.
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