Exclusive by Design: Bertone Mantide priced at $2M, only 10 will be made
Bertone Mantide – Click above for high-res image gallery
Perspective is a curious thing. Some look at the Corvette ZR1 and think it’s a bargain compared to the exotic European machinery that it’s capable of trouncing. Others look at the six-figure price tag and wonder how a Chevy could possibly cost that much. Then comes along Stile Bertone, the restructured coachbuilder now under the creative direction of former Pininfarina designer Jason Castriota, who has re-skinned the ZR1 as the Mantide. As if its radical styling wasn’t divisive enough, news of its price tag and production run have now surfaced. One’s big, the other small. Guess which one’s which. Take your time, we’ll wait.
Give up? The Bertone Mantide will sell for $2 million, but with that kind of sticker price it won’t sell many: Castriota says they’ve already received between three and five (let’s call it four) firm orders for the exclusive supercar, and they’ll produce a maximum of ten examples. Think the Mantide and its exclusivity is worth a nearly 2,000% mark-up over the $103k “stock” ZR1? Express yourself in the comments below, and check out the updated gallery of high-resolution images below if you need help making up your mind.
