PLANETevo NEWS ou take a good look at the pictures and decide for yourself, but personally, we’re not quite sure where the desigers at Swiss tuner Mansory picked up their art degrees. Or where inspiration for these creations came from. The surrealist paintings of Salvador Dali, perhaps? No, that would be an insult to the great Catalan artist. Prestige Cars, the Abu Dhabi importer of performance cars, has opened a new Mansory showroom, dedicated to selling the cars you see here, along with a tuning service for Ferraris, Porsches, Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. They will provide you with bodykit, colour and interior options, most of which you probably wouldn’t even know existed. There’s also the more serious power, exhaust and cooling upgrades. The new showroom is located on Khalidya Street, a few hundred metres away from the existing showroom that sells customised cars from TechArt, Novitec Rosso, Carlsson and ART. And each car is so radically in-your-face it’s hard to know where to look. But that’s the point. Where else would you get a gold-coloured, twin-turbo, carbon fibre-bodied Ferrari 599 with tiger skin-pattern interior, 820bhp and a tag like “Stallone”? Yes, it really is named after Mr Rocky Balboa himself. By the looks of it, it has a similarly awkward lip, too. Yours for $1.1m. Carbon fibre features heavily in Mansory’s work. The Panamera Mansory, SLR Renovatio and Aston DB9 Cyrus are all adorned with the stuff, inside and out. Though the Rolls-Royce Conquistador isn’t. There’s also the Cayenne Turbo Chopster. The roof is cut by 60mm, ride height by 45mm and the interior is filled with Alcantara, a Carrera GT-like centre console and four individual sports seats. Its V8 produces a healthy 700bhp and 664lb ft in torque. Aggression seems to be the defining theme here, while the combination of bright gold, orange and black colours makes them awkard to look at. There is one creation in the showroom that’s worth admiring, having remained pure: a beautiful purple Weismann GT, sat in a corner at the back end. Prestige Cars estimates it’ll sell around 150 cars a year, with buyers coming from various parts of the region and many hailing from Russia, Khazakstan and Uzbekistan. Each car has a three month waiting list, and modifications carried out to customers’ cars take one month. Call us conservative, but in this case we’d stick with the standard cars. DP SWEET SMELL OF EXCESS ABU DHABI IMPORTER OPENS SHOWROOM DEDICATED TO MANSORY-TUNED CREATIONS Y As Prestige Cars’ neat showroom demonstrates, Mansory tends not to hold back. Prices average $1m, but you can also order separate kits for your own car. Left: Weismann is the only unfettled product on the showroom floor 020| evo MIDDLE EAST

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ou take a good look at the pictures

and decide for yourself, but personally,

we’re not quite sure where the desigers

at Swiss tuner Mansory picked up their art degrees. Or where inspiration for these creations came from. The surrealist paintings of Salvador Dali, perhaps? No, that would be an insult to the great Catalan artist.

Prestige Cars, the Abu Dhabi importer of performance cars, has opened a new Mansory showroom, dedicated to selling the cars you see here, along with a tuning service for Ferraris, Porsches, Bentleys and Rolls-Royces. They

will provide you with bodykit, colour and interior options, most of which you probably wouldn’t even know existed. There’s also the more serious power, exhaust and cooling upgrades.

The new showroom is located on Khalidya Street, a few hundred metres away from the existing showroom that sells customised cars from TechArt, Novitec Rosso, Carlsson and ART. And each car is so radically in-your-face it’s hard to know where to look.

But that’s the point. Where else would you get a gold-coloured, twin-turbo, carbon fibre-bodied Ferrari 599 with tiger skin-pattern interior, 820bhp and a tag like “Stallone”? Yes, it really is named

after Mr Rocky Balboa himself. By the looks of it, it has a similarly awkward lip, too. Yours for $1.1m.

Carbon fibre features heavily in Mansory’s work. The Panamera Mansory, SLR Renovatio and Aston DB9 Cyrus are all adorned with the stuff, inside and out. Though the Rolls-Royce Conquistador isn’t.

There’s also the Cayenne Turbo Chopster. The roof is cut by 60mm, ride height by 45mm and the interior is filled with Alcantara, a Carrera GT-like centre console and four individual sports seats. Its V8 produces a healthy 700bhp and 664lb ft in torque.

Aggression seems to be the

defining theme here, while the combination of bright gold, orange and black colours makes them awkard to look at. There is one creation in the showroom that’s worth admiring, having remained pure: a beautiful purple Weismann GT, sat in a corner at the back end.

Prestige Cars estimates it’ll sell around 150 cars a year, with buyers coming from various parts of the region and many hailing from Russia, Khazakstan and Uzbekistan. Each car has a three month waiting list, and modifications carried out to customers’ cars take one month. Call us conservative, but in this case we’d stick with the standard cars. DP

SWEET SMELL OF EXCESSABU DHABI IMPORTER OPENS SHOWROOM DEDICATED TO MANSORY-TUNED CREATIONS

As Prestige Cars’ neat showroom demonstrates, Mansory tends not to hold back. Prices average $1m, but you can also order separate kits for your own car. Left: Weismann is the only unfettled product on the showroom floor

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