Oh No, Someone Gave Mansory A Maserati MC20

Very few high-end cars – and also the occasional Smart Fortwo, Vespa scooter, jet ski or lawnmower – are safe from the clutches of German tuning company Mansory. Case in point: the firm has just gotten hold of a Maserati MC20, a car that, among some modern supercars, has a pretty restrained, minimalist design. Or it did at least, before Mansory turned it into this, the MCX Pergusa.

Let’s get the internal stuff out of the way before addressing… well, the obvious. Through reworked electronics and a new performance exhaust system, Mansory has turned the MC20’s 3.0-litre twin-turbocharged V6 up from 621 to 740bhp. Torque, similarly, is up from 538 to 649lb ft. As a result, top speed is now 208mph and 0-62mph takes 2.6 seconds, a gain of 6mph and a drop of around 0.3 seconds, respectively.

All well and good, but if you want an MCX Pergusa, you’ll also have to come to terms with the looks. Mansory is rightly very proud of its full carbon body, and so has left it entirely unpainted, letting the wild patterns of the forged carbon fibre do the talking.

It’s also literally impossible to miss the new bodykit, which is more than a little reminiscent of the GT2 racing version of the MC20. In fairness, a lot of it is said to be functional, with the massively embiggened air intakes in the front bumper, similarly vast inlets on the sides and the carbon airbox all feeding more air into the engine’s rads. We’re not entirely sure the tiny spoiler on top of the air intake, which looks more like an F1 car’s camera housing, actually does anything though.

Out the back, there’s a new rear wing and diffuser with a quartet of exhaust tips exiting between them. The car sits on Mansory’s forged centre-lock rims, too.

As this is a Mansory product, the interior contains an almost overwhelming amount of quilted leather which, in the launch-spec car, has been finished in a nice, subtle combo of bright orange and black. Mansory will finish it in whatever colour its customer desires, though. Naturally, there’s also a lot of carbon, and some Mansory branded floormats, the cost of which we don’t even want to think about.

Easy as it is to wonder why it’s done this to the elegant MC20, it’s kind of Mansory’s raison d’être to shock and divide – heck, it’s even modelled the colour scheme on this one after a tub of marmite. It’s only making five MCX Pergusas, and we can’t imagine it’ll have any difficulty shifting them, even at a presumably massive premium over the standard car.