As if the Ferrari Purosangue wasn’t controversial enough.
Mansory just unveiled the Pugnator, its take on the Italian sports car maker’s first SUV, at this year’s Monaco Yacht Show. The German custom shop has dressed up the vehicle in a truly over-the-top body kit and given it a noticeable power bump.
If you’re familiar with the 35-year-old Mansory’s work, nothing about the Pugnator should come as a surprise. The shop likes to take an already bold vehicle and push its design to the extreme. In the case of the sleek Purosangue, this meant painting it Vermillion Red and outfitting it with one of the more ridiculous body kits you’ll ever see. The resulting vehicle has a completely redesigned front fascia, aggressively sculpted hood, extended wheel arches, side skirts, and a giant rear spoiler. Basically, every single inch of the exterior has been decorated with some sort of carbon-fiber element necessary or not. Rounding things out is a brash set of ultra-light forged rims—22 inches in the front, 23 inches in the back—wrapped in performance tires.
Mansory Pugnator
Mansory
The interior, meanwhile, has been treated with a comparatively gentler hand. The seats and steering wheel are now covered in perforated while leather and Mansory branding can be seen everywhere you look throughout the cabin.
Mansory didn’t stop there. The shop also likes to give its vehicles a tune, and the Pugnator is no different. The Purosangue’s V-12 was already a beast, capable of producing 715 hp and 528 ft lbs of torque, has been tweaked so that it now pumps out 755 horses and 538 ft lbs of twist. No performance numbers have been provided, but we imagine it’s pretty fast, though it’s easy to wonder if anyone who buys the vehicle will come close to pushing it to its limits.
Mansory Pugnator
Mansory
The Pugnator has generated plenty of online chatter, as happens every time Mansory releases a new model. That conversation, unsurprisingly, has been fairly negative, with the SUV being called a “mauling,” “worse” than ”ugly,” and something that “may cause you to lose faith in humanity.” Not everyone hates it, though. Some outlets have even gone as far as to call it an improvement over the Purosangue.
If you fall in the latter camp and want to buy the Pugnator you may want to reach out to Mansory soon. The shop plans to build just seven examples of its latest build. No price has been announced, but we expect it’ll go for well north of the Purosangue’s $400,000 starting price.
