Filed under: Aftermarket, Concept Cars, Porsche
Mansory gobbles up Porsche tuning arm of Rinspeed
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It appears that German tuner Mansory isn't content doing outrageous things to Ferraris, Rolls-Royces, Mercedes, Bentleys and Aston Martins. They apparently want to do similar things to Porsches as well. To make things easier on themselves, they have decided to just purchase a firm that already does wondrous things to Zuffenhausen's finest. Mansory has purchased the Porsche-tuning arm of Rinspeed and renamed it Mansory (Switzerland) AG. The deal is a bit complex, but Rinspeed Inc. will continue to operate as a separate entity, and will continue to do additional automotive work in the future, and the Porsche-specific side of the business now belongs to Mansory. So while Mansory will now be able to offer cars like the "Rinspeed" X-Treme Cayenne, Le Mans 600, Imola and Indy 4S, Rinspeed will continue to build its wild and wacky show cars, like the Splash, eXasis, and sQuba. Got it? Good.
Gallery: Mansory SLR and 599 GTB
Gallery: Rinspeed sQuba Concept
Gallery: Rinspeed eXasis
Gallery: Mansory Aston Martin DB9
[Source: 4WheelsNews]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dasupersprint 7:11PM (11/14/2008)
Nooo! Leave the damn car alone! Mansory make kits for über-rich 16 years olds.
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Alex 9:21PM (11/14/2008)
So much for Rinspeed being relevant. Mansory is absolutely awful. Lord only knows how they have the money to buy Rinspeed's Porsche arm, let alone still be in business.
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Eddie 11:20PM (11/14/2008)
Rinspeed Porsches are usually unbelievable. I hope Mansory doesn't mess with the simple beauty of the Rinspeed kits.
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Mobius_1 7:57AM (11/15/2008)
Mansory does some unforgivable things to beautiful and amazing cars, while Rinspeed also makes tasteful and/or powerful upgrades to Porsches and also mad, crazy, insane but really cool and fun concepts.
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porscheophile.com 7:55AM (11/16/2008)
Porsches are so wonderful-- and expensive-- as they come out of the box. This whole notion of "improving" on them has always been a tough one for me to understand. IT takes gall if nothing else.
Rick Ratliffhttp://www.porscheophile.com