Even By Mansory Standards, The Venatus S Is A Lot

The Oxford Dictionary’s third definition of taste is “the ability to discern what is of good quality or of a high aesthetic standard”, which isn’t a description you’d apply to Mansory cars. The tuner has long been in the business of making audaciously-modified eyesores, but its latest creation makes everything that has come before it looks somewhat tame.

This is the Mansory Venatus S which is based on the already unapologetic Lamborghini Urus, with every surface of its bodywork seemingly cranked up a few notches on the offensive scale.

Where do we even start with this? A new front bumper with a growth of new vents and canards could be one point, with its forged carbon spreading like a rash over the bonnet and across the roof. The material is also used for new side skirts, wing mirrors and some absolutely baffling fake intakes on the C-pillar.

The rear diffuser looks like it could be ripped from a SuperGT race car yet we’ll assume it does no real diffusing, and we’re really not sure how anyone could’ve taken a look at the double rear wing setup and thought “Yep, that’s the one”.

We haven’t even mentioned the purple gradient paint, the gigantic turbofan-esque wheels or the illuminated Mansory logos.

Things aren’t much better inside, either. Yellow Alcantara and leather have been blathered across pretty much every surface except for the driver’s seat and rear right passenger, which are in contrasting purple. Someone at Mansory must be a fan of Saints Row. Mansory has even gone to the trouble of fitting its own steering wheel with a built-in digital display, carbon shift paddles and of course, the Venatus S logo.

To Mansory’s credit, it has backed up the mind-boggling design changes with a performance increase. It’s quoting 888bhp and 811lb ft of torque from the 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, a rise of 231bhp and 184lb ft over a factory-fresh Performante. Presumably, that’ll mean a drop on its 3.3 second 0-62mph sprint, but Mansory hasn’t claimed anything on that front.

No word on price, either, though we’ll assume anyone buying one of the nine planned for production will have enough money to burn on such a thing that it’s irrelevant.