21 April 2009 - 11:00
Red ’Tide
The latest one-off supercar from Jason Castriota - the man behind the awesome Ferrari P4/5 and new design director at Bertone - is here. It is called the Mantide.
Pronounced Man-ti-deh (not Man-tide, sadly), it's based on the already insane Corvette ZR1 and it looks... well, let's leave it to you to decide - what do you think of it?
It's a striking design, no doubt. Castriota, who talked
exclusively to our US site last year, says the Mantide ‘draws inspiration from modern aerospace and the world of Formula One', though we can't help fearing that the FIA would take a very dim view of all the aero flim-flammery. Like the P4/5, there's a teardrop canopy, though the whole package is far more aggressive and, er, futuresome than the curvy Ferrari.
The Mantide is a functional shape, though. It boasts a drag coefficient 25 per cent lower than the ZR1, and generates 30 per cent more downforce. Because the body, wheels, seats and trim are constructed from carbon fibre, it weighs in 100kg lighter than the Corvette.
All of which adds up to a simply staggering 0-62mph time of just 3.2 seconds and top speed of 217mph - the ZR1, in comparison, manages a tardy 3.5-second sprint and a 205mph maximum. The full FIA roll cage and four-point harnesses are probably a good idea, then - this isn't a concept, this is a proper driver.
Cost? It's one of those ‘pick a number at random, and then add a whole bunch of zeros until your hand hurts' cars. The estimated cost of Glickenhaus' P4/5 was around three million dollars, and we can't imagine the Mantide will be any cheaper.
So, once again, what do you think of the looks? We're genuinely interested to hear what you think of this one...
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It was desperately beautiful until I saw the back end. You know what the back end reminds me of? You know when you're stuffing a turkey, the shape of the hole in the turkey where you stuff it? That. And with the mental image of raw ass-pouting poultry stuck in my mind, I can't say I love this car. Though it'll look phenomenal in the metal.
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ewwwwwwwwwwww this car is sooo discusting the back of it remindes me of the reventon how pointy it is ewwwwwwww well horrible :(
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Looks like a parody of darth Vader covered in ketchup
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i think it looks great especially that sweeping teardrop canopy, apart from that overbite they've decided to give it at the front.
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There is no doubt in me mind that this car looks absolutely awesome but somehow, it reminds of something Alfa Romeo would make. All that curvy stuff at the back and the 'smile' on the nose. The front is odd though. Where's the badge? The nose looks a bit bare...
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It does look very sci-fi, like a 599, an Evo X, that Toyota FT-HS Concept, maybe a Maser GT and a spaceship all fell into the large hadron collider and this was spat out the other end - if it has an other end. I like the wheels too. A bit '80s-future, but they fit the overall design. Actually, in the 3rd picture (nose shot in the quarry place), the front looks a little too busy with all those shapes and surfaces, but I'm sure I wouldn't complain if I saw it for real! The most annoying thing though is that I keep saying Man-tide rather than man-ti-day.
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It somehow resembles a hand-held vacuum cleaner. It really feels like a step backwards from the P4/5.
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Yikes that back end is awful! Looks good but I have to say looks a bit gimmicky and like a concept that doesn't run rather than a real car and for that I don't think I would part with my millions for it!
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Mikeado: Perhaps a bit of Corvette Z06 (maybe ZR1) in there too? The front end makes me think of a Corvette with warped/melted Nissan GTR headlights. Actually when I put it that way, it's a bloody ugly little minger, isn't it?
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Pronounce: Man (sound like "MANchester") - ti (sounds like the ty of "empTY") de (sounds like "DEbug"). wish it was useful. i love this car is new, futuristic, original, and classical at the same time, full of italian classic but continues them , doesn't copy them. and reminds also his name, cause mantide is the praying mantis. fabulous.
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I see what you're saying AshHorne. Actually, after seeing it a second time, it isn't half fussy. And what's with the Windows logo drilled into the side? I still think it would look good in the metal though. Nice 'n' mad.
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A car based on a piece of plastic called Corvette. Well that ruins it doesn't it. Such a pity... I liked the looks at first glance though. But only until I saw the back end. My god it's awful!
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Now thats one ugly motherfu...... well, you get the idea. This guy got paid for that? It looks like a hotwheels dinky toy.
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who was high when they made this. looks extremely ugly. i cant stand it. im going to go look at a prius instead
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looks like a luxury car from a future where blade runner and demolition man have collided together it is not a beautiful car like the Alfa 8c but you have to admit its an awesome machine. the back end does leave one thinking urgh but in as a whole it is a magnificent thing
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I don't know about some of you, but I found the back end better designed the the front. I've seen concept designs that looks better than that sweeping canopy. It just looks retarded. The lamps looks like they needed repositioning. The Back is nice, but wish it was the front!
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I think it looks like absolute crap, its a shame there isn't a shot from underneath, its probably the only place this car looks decent.
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@keen88 - I think thats a bit harsh. Its not such a bad looking car! I do think that you have to be galacticly stupid to buy a Ferrari - they deppreciate so much!
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It's an interesting design, looks futuristic and it's definately a Castriota. I think it points to a bright future for a company striving to be a leader in automotive design!
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Looks aren't great, it's a mixture of hotwheels and power rangers.This is not good looking despite being mad and futuristic.The wheels are the worst bit, they're atrocious, and so are the headlamps. However, throw away those to and you've got a not-bad looking car!
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The back looks like a warthogs nostril, after sniffing somethin naughty.
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I think this car is gorgeous except for the slightly weird lip.
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Mikeado: Agreed. We can laugh at it whilst it's on paper but if one grumbled through Lincoln High Street I guarantee many jaws would drop. Actually no. Lincoln HATES cars to the point of being listed as an official 'Anti-Car' city (one of the few in Britain). It might get keyed or kicked or something. Bad idea, so let's do it. :)
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It should have a Citroen badge on the front
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good looking car with ford gt doors and vents in the back used for nothing (or cooling down the gas tank if u search for info)
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This design looks more linguistic or OK! - a metaphoric play with automotive design trends than a serious car design.
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YES! WOW! All we need to complete this car is a European V8 soundtrack
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OK...... they have gone a tinsy bit wrong here *shudder*
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well comparin the new lamboz and this..i think they have fallen in the lambo design trap by makin all these sharp edges and those pointed headlights...it all looks great no doubt but u can easily tell that theyve tried to copy lambo and so ferrari is not able to maintain its prestigious and classical designing style which they always had...SAD!
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It looks terrible.....but REALY cool!
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it class car would love to get behind that wheel show how u driving is a meanyt to be like lol stig ur the man
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BONKERS...The man's gone mad! Mad I tell you! Why have that lip-shape on the front? It'll look better without it... The side is okay, but that wing-vent-thingy is a little "bleh"... Why can't it be connected cleanly with the rest of the pillar? I have to say the rear-end is the best part... sort of... And I have to say that I don't like this car. Its... somehow desperate for attention? (terrible looking car...)
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It looks absolutely fantastic. I especially love the back end of it. The front end is lacking a little bit, DarkMax (and a few others) are right. I love the back lights, stupendously beautiful.
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Hmmmm... I'm changing my mind a lot. I think it looks completely awesome apart from that front which just seems a bit bare. And the bonnet creases are a bit weird but in a good way, they're original man :) It's good :-D
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Striking design? How about ugly. Sorry, the ZR-1 is no beauty. But seriously... I rather have a window on my bonnet than this attrocity.
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this thing is jawdroppingly ugly.... useless
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The back is awsome but the front is a bit picky
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I love it. the design is almost as insane as maybe the citroen GT, only this is actually real. Just disappointed they kept the zr6 seethrough plastic engine cover on the bonnet
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In my opinion it's ugly. The design doesn't flow through the car. It's just ugly. -.-'
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Also the colour and the back end vaguely remind me of the BMW M1 concept shown in 2008
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kinda looks like the corvette from the new transformers just with a more boring and blander front. In general its not that pretty, but the last picture in the photo album is a pretty good angle for it, anything that gets that boring nose outa the picture makes it look better
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Quite nice from front to the side... but that catfish back is hmmmmmmish, even if a nice try in the "making something different" difficult task.
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Dear God, possibly the stupidest car I've ever seen. Next time you've got something as hideous as this to show us can you please offer us an option before we get to the pics. Something like: "Would you like to proceed to the pictures or would you like to plunge knitting needles into your eyes?" I would have chosen the knitting needles if I'd have known what was coming. An abysmal, clumsy gimmick. This is not car design.
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Think it won't be as expensive as P4/5. Second, it a great start. Really gets everyone going, hating it or not. JC wasn't going for beautiful car. All trough his clips on You Tube he was talking about shear performance. Taking ZR1 as a base it's stupid to go for the refinement which Pininfarina was about. Bertone allowed him to make this one, edgy, brutal, absent minded thing that completely performance oriented. I'm just anxious what's next. Stile Bertone means a lot and it will bring much to disign society.
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one word: vulgar. Too many edges too many angles for my taste, dunno what exactly it is: not muscular enough to be a muscule car, not elegant enough to be a sophisicaated supercar, in fact I think it is a bit cartoony and blocky, just like batman's car, which isn't my thing at all. Maybe Bruce Wayne wants one.
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if they are going to put this car in production...it will be a big mess....i can not understand what exactly designer was thinking of when he designed this crap.....he should fined for this........LOL
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well i have a guess Richard Hammond Gonna like this car.....i dont know what he will say but......but he will be intrested in the shape
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I liked the picture on the website's homepage, 3/4 rear view. the front view isn't that great... the front bumper looks rubbish (but i guess technical specs are more important than satisfying fantasizing poor blokes) and the front headlamps remind me of the new nissan Z, and coming from me that's not a compliment. But the whole hood/windscreen/roof set looks really good
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However sleek this car is, the front end looks like a character you would expect to find on a Nintendo game.
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So they got the front half of an eighth-generation Mitsubishi Lancer and glued a huge dead fish on the back, then decided that the back should be the front and vice versa. It's ugly as hell.
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The canopy's nice, and I quite like the headlights and the wing-mirrors. The 'cheese-grater' style side-vents are quite attractive too. Other than that, it's a bit of a dog. And those wheels... God, those WHEELS... Eeew.
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This is a striking bit of work again Castriota, however I still find these lines a little too blocky for the thing to work as a whole (see wheel arches for example - the round edges of the wheel don't sit well against those angled corners). I love all the folds and scoops but think Laurens van den Acker has this lineworked nailed for more comprehensively (see his furai concept). I also think as an example of inspiration of aerospace and F1 I think Citroen had a better result with their Granturismo Concept car. None-the-less it's a good bit of work from Castiota, just needs to keep on pushing himself and the team that little bit more
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Do you know why it isn't black? Well, if it was, it would be driven by Adam West, and we wouldn't have this much problems pronouncing the name, it would be, simply, called BAT MOBILE.
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Argh! I came back to read the comments and caught sight of it again. Oh no, I think I'm going blind. I'd rather watch my aging parents do the disgusto rumpy than have to look at this again! Bad, bad, bad.
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It doesn't look good at all.It's just a photo and nothing more.
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I think thats a weirdly beautiful car, the front reminds me of a pufferfish, and the back looks like they've taken the front of an Evo X and gone completely mental with it. So they've taken what it mainly Japanese design and, with the odd exception, is not a good entity, but managed to pull it off through pure lunacy. Though i love the Home page shot, thats nice.
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Striking...definately striking... looks as if they wanted to take a shot at the Countach of the 10'.... I'm not sure the job's done....would love to see it in metal!....but why the diaper 'round its arse???
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Not really that good looking the Zr1 is better looking
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good looking n nice not 2 mention fast
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Hmmm... I don't think it's too bad - as i said yesterday, some of these comments are a little harsh.
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Come on, it's a batmobile! :)))
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Well it's erm....different to say the least. The wing mirrors remind me of shrek's ears
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Reminds me of 1980s concepts tbh. Nice at the front tho :) i like it but not for 3million yankees
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jesus, remember me Goldrake! please learn forn giugiaro how to design cars, leave it to the italians, others ,, please, dont even try, go to fight in afganistan, please don insult the good sense of taste, de gustibus non est disputandom...latin take a look to the 40 of italdesign or the chiron bugatti, or the gg50 by giugiaro, please.
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I m pist about the influence of transformer and japanese design, they destroy all the desgin culture! good armony should be in a good product, taste is a matter of education. michelangelo went to school! but in Florence not in California, Stoccolm or Kobe! F,,,
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TopGear, when are you gonna fess up about this being an April Fool's joke? Surely no-one with the pedigree and style of Ferrari would design this? Come on - admit it was Jezza drawing with crayons after a few ciders, whilst Hammond kept flicking his ears and May whittered on about combustion pressures of a tractor...
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this car truly is one of a kind , the ugly from every angle kind.
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Although I would prefer it with a more alfa-ish front and back myself, I did read that it's designed starting from a Corvette before posting my first comment... therefore it carries the same nose-heavyness that the original does. I mean, the frame decides the overall balance, not the pencil :) If my memory doesn't fail me, the first movie batmobile was a corvette as well, so it's hardly surprising this prototype being similar to it
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Not bad, in someways good looking. Reverse down a one-way street and everyone will think you are going the wrong way, better still put a steering wheel in the back.
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hate that lip
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You are not an ugly duckling. You are a swan that is ugly. It started out as a good looking Corvette and now it looks like a broken Transformers toy called Michael Jackson. It's a pity.
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Wow that is amazing looks so futuristic I think it looks like a something nobody dreamt up as a little kid. Great job this is what supercars are all about being bonkers, fun and bringing out the inner child Makes me feel like a 5 year old again 100 out of 10 well done the most radical design yet makes the lamborghini reventon look plain
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Why would anyone even consider this. It is simply radical shell on a Corvette with the same price tag as a Bugatti Veyron. Other than availability, why would anyone buy this instead of a "Bug"?
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looks like a hotwheels car or something. nice though, you can see hows its based on the corvette
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looks like some renault designers got there hands on a 'vette - and then went hidiously berserk... luckily no one will ever drive it 'cause the carbon fibre wheels will crack at every little pothole
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What a truly bloody awful looking car! It looks like something from the kids show "Power Rangers" only not as exciting. Ugh-A-Lee...!!
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This car is an exercise in what's possible. It's all about how it makes you feel and it's purpose is to elicit extreme reactions. You either like it or you don't and that's exactly what the designer was aiming for. I, personally, like it.
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This has got to be one of the nicest cars I have ever seen. And this isn't a concept either (i think) and it goes 217mph aswell so it just gets better and better. I really want one
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Now that's a car, looks great.....TG, take that for a spin round the test track ASAP PLEASE!!!!
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Mazza commented on this article
21 April 2009
this is a great looking car
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