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06 May 2009

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The price is out on the unmissable Bertone Mantide we showed you last week. As you might have guessed, it’s not cheap.

Two million dollars of not-cheap, to be precise. Or £1.3 million. That’s more than a Veyron. That’s a lot of cash.

Apart from the 0-62mph time of 3.2 seconds, the 217mph top speed and the, er, striking looks, you’re paying for exclusivity. Bertone says it has received ‘between three and five’ Mantides orders already (so ‘four’, then?), and is planning a production run of no more than 10 cars.

Still, it’s a mighty wodge of moolah. $2,000,000 is approximately 20 times the price of the Corvette ZR1 on which the Mantide is based (and, incidentally, enough to keep LDV vans running for a whole week).

Nonetheless, we can’t imagine Bertone will find it difficult to find ten deep-pocketed punters to stump up the cash. Anyone joining the waiting list?

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Mikeado commented on this article

at 02:00 pm on 06 May 2009

Aha! Eat it Aston! You have a £1.2m car? Well ours is £1.3m! Don't you feel foolish now!! It's roughly as fast as the ONE-77 will be, but with really controversial looks and an extra £100,000 to pay. I'm sticking with the Aston Martin, thanks. It will look, and sound, way better I reckon.

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AshHorne commented on this article

at 02:30 pm on 06 May 2009

Actually, this in black (POSSIBLY white), and i'm sold. It's better looking than the Aston anyway, especially with their arrogance of saying it's "the most beautiful car ever made". it's not. it's mouth looks like it's been split open in a knife fight, and the rest of it just looks like a DBS on steroids. And the DBS looks like the DB9, which looks a lot like a cross between the Jag XKR and the DB7. Ergo, their designers are almost as uncreative as Porsche's. And nobody's going to call the 911 Turbo the prettiest car in the world, are they?

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ITMdesign commented on this article

at 03:55 pm on 06 May 2009

whats with the Over-A-Millon-Quid supercars lately?? us normal people where happy in dreaming with 700 thousand quid zondas and 500 thousand SLR´s but nowerdays any new super car goes bezerk with an over million tag! and they are not getting faster or prettyer...

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A4R0N-24 commented on this article

at 05:22 pm on 06 May 2009

From the back it looks like Darth Vader's helmet. Price is to Serious there are better Super Cars that do that job even better at a fraction of the cost.

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BrowntheRockCat commented on this article

at 06:08 pm on 06 May 2009

dont like it

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