Frankfurt 2009: Mansory Cyrus is what carbon fiber was made for
by Jonathon Ramsey on Sep 16th 2009 at 3:41PM 
Mansory Cyrus -- Click above for high-res image gallery
When Mansory wants to give it to us good, they know how. This is the Mansory Cyrus (Khouresh Mansory told us that Cyrus was the first king of Iran), and – even though every other colleague here disagrees with us – we feel it the best use of carbon fiber we've seen since we've been here. The car is DB9-based and has been redone in aerospace, pre-preg carbon fiber, and gets 28 extra horses.
Well, all except the rear fenders because they couldn't shape the carbon fiber accordingly, so the carbon fiber -- extended in width by two inches from the original car – is glued to the standard panels with adhesive bought from Lamborghini. Otherwise it's all CF. No, the roof scoop isn't functional – but beauty makes no promises to functionality. You can also get the DBS done up thusly, and although we don't know what that car is called, we hope it's Xerxes. The Cyrus will run you €380,000 on top of a DB9. We won't call it money well spent... but we'd spend it.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Mike 2:06PM (9/16/2009)
wowowowow.. unbelievable!
I love it all except for the roof 'scoop'
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Jared 3:12PM (9/17/2009)
So it's a stick on carbon fiber kit?
Seems like a good waste on money to add weight to a car.
Jim Dubois 3:44PM (9/16/2009)
Waste of carbon fiber
Give me Vantage V12 in Casino Royale metallic grey color instead!
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Vision7 3:51PM (9/16/2009)
If I may offer a slight correction:
Bond drove a DBS in Casino Royale. That was to be the vehicle's theatrical debut and a short but successful one at that.
Oh, glorious sound!! I'm writing this at the same time as my neighbour is ripping down the street in his V8 Vantage. Can there be a better symphony of internal combustion?
Jim Dubois 4:02PM (9/16/2009)
@Vision7
Yes I know Bond drove a DBS in Casino Royale movie
But there is a special Casino Royale color for Vantage
I prefer smaller size/look of Vantage over DBS
Both DBS/Vantage do sound incredible!
Tom 4:03PM (9/16/2009)
...he did say "Vantage V12 in Casino Royale metallic grey." Might that just mean he wants the Vantage in the same color they used in Casino Royale, not necessarily the exact car Bond crashed after 0:00.32 seconds of driving?
Vision7 4:07PM (9/16/2009)
Ah, yes, I apologize for the misread of your original entry. That is a very nice colour and I must also agree with you on your preference of the Vantage over the DB9.
Having seen the Vantage and the DB9 side-by-side, I'm almost curious to see how large the Rapide looks. When compared to the Vantage, the DB9 just looks too long, as if they've stretched the design too far. From the initial photos, it may seem the Rapide will exhibit similar but magnified symptoms of such a design.
mk3 5:08PM (9/16/2009)
@Vision7
"Can there be a better symphony of internal combustion?"
Yes V12 Vantage..
future-autos.blogspot.com 8:01PM (9/16/2009)
Gimme a One-77 in matte black. Or hell, a one-77 in all carbon fiber.
KA 3:45PM (9/16/2009)
The people at Mansory have got to have debilitatingly gigantic cahones...
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Jeff Johnson 3:49PM (9/16/2009)
the roof scoop screws the whole car up and instead of me saying "wow cool" I now lean towards "wow lame". One of their rotors has surface cracks in it as well.
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Chris 7:17PM (9/16/2009)
Actually, I think that is just a pad outline on the rotor. The car probably sat for a long time with the parking brake on.
adrenalnjunky 7:18PM (9/16/2009)
looks more like an outline of where the brakepad for the emerg. brake might have been applied during shipping?
nanda 3:52PM (9/16/2009)
Looks really great. A timeless piece of .... carbon.
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Quattro 3:54PM (9/16/2009)
It certainly seems like Mansory designers are in desperate need for some serious education...in terms of actually making a car look nicer rather than just throwing in bunch of expensive products and hoping for the best!
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POV 4:02PM (9/16/2009)
I'm almost carbon-fibered out at this point.
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JD 4:29PM (9/16/2009)
Did you say "€380,000 on top of a DB9"?
The DB9 by itself is around $200,000 if I'm not mistaken.
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1tytesc 4:14PM (9/16/2009)
Um, Guys, It's an Aston ONE77. And it is my favorite car ever!
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BoxerFanatic 4:30PM (9/16/2009)
No, it only looks like a copy of it.
It is a modified DB9 made to look somewhat like a One-77....
And by your reaction, I guess they pulled most of it off...
BoxerFanatic 4:10PM (9/16/2009)
That is a bit much.
So dark, and so visually textured, you can't really tell what you are looking at.
The roof scoop is the pointless bit, and should have just been left off.
And it seems like they have done the impossible, and turned an expensive, exclusive DB9 or DBS into a wannabe. A wannabe One-77.
I can kind of see doing some of this stuff to spice up the visuals of a DBS... the side extractors and the big grille, without the ill-conceived hood. No roof scoop, and just a bit of exposed CF to show the construction, but mostly painted.
Somewhere between a stock DBS and this overboard effort, would be a very nice custom Aston Martin with a few cues from One-77, where One-77 has it's own outlandishness, in some of it's proportions, like it's HUGE rear fenders, and front side intakes clipping into the headlight design.
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