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    Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model

    Bertone Mantide Wind-Testing In The Dark

    Stile Bertone Project M: A Corvette ZR1 In Disguise!
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    04/21/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    Wow, for once I'm glad to be in the majority. This is horrible, looks like it was designed only to get attention - success!


    Maybe we'll like it in fifty years, just like how the Figoni et Falaschi (aka Phony and Flashy) designs look a lot better nowadays than they did in the thirties.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    It's a modern re-imagining of an '80s concept car.


    Next!

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    It has a face--and not a very handsome one--for an ass.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    I was getting ready to open the dam and let my mantide gush forth, so to speak... but HOLY SHIT that ass is UGLY.
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    Image of bzr bzr
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    The back end looks like it's getting a fierce wedgie.
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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    Looks like the lead for "Corvette Summer 2" - where an aging Mark Hamill hooks up with a REALLY old Annie Potts. Hilarious hi-jinks ensue in the Italian countryside....


    Wow... this thing is ugly....

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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    This car has enough cool design features to make 5 different concept cars, and they probably should have, because all together on one car all I see is busy, busy, busy.


    As much as I like the P4/5 (and I really do), this is just a mess of interesting ideas and not a complete design. The interplay of the forms behind the front wheel is fabulous, but the clusterfuck of forms behind the rear wheel makes me want to sit Jason Castriota down for a stern scolding.


    One of the keys to Bertone's greatness was always wild forms and restraint in the details. This thing has the forms and proportions right and the details oh so very wrong.

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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    Is that hood what I think it is? Did the goofball actually manage to keep the only egregious aesthetic mistake from the donor car's design?
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    The goggles... they do nothing!
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    He even included a reservoir tip.
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    Wrong.


    (Do I have to say more?)

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    Dear Jason,


    I love the design of the Mantide. I am excellent at ass-end design. Are you hiring?


    Love, Chris


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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/20/09

    @JalopEngineerd: Bravo! Well played!
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    I am so unimpressed that I am almost speechless. I said almost.


    This thing is an atrocity. It should comes with two brown bags. One to cover the car, and one to put over your own head in case the bag covering the car falls off.

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    04/20/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: I had high hopes for this car and like you, I am sorely disappointed.
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    Image of Steel_ETC Steel_ETC
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    I like some of the cues - the hood-bulge undercut, and the (seemingly pointless on a front-engined car) rear shoulder-intakes - but on a whole the Mantide design is too busy and not nearly as good as the 612 P4/5. I think it suffers from not having a pre-existing design philosophy to build on, like the aformentioned Pininfarina P4/5 custom or the Alfa Romeo Bertone BAT-11, especially since Bertone has changed its in-house design philosophy and cross-product cues a lot more over the past few years than Pininfarina or Giugaro.


    Besides, where's my production version of the other ridiculous Italian and far better-looking Corvette-based custom, the Spada Codatronca:

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    Image of Steel_ETC Steel_ETC
    04/20/09

    @Steel_ETC: I hate it when image linking doesn't work quite right. Let's try that again:


    [jalopnik.com]

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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    04/20/09

    @Steel_ETC: Haha, preview anyone?


    I disagree on the design philosophy. Besides the fact that Bertone did a Corvette-based concept less than twenty years ago (which JC has given a nod to, I think),

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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    04/20/09

    @DrewDrawsCrayonDrawrings: Ray!! Preview back please! All of the clever bits were cut off...
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    Image of J-2-da-B J-2-da-B
    04/20/09

    In reply to Stile Bertone Mantide: Part Corvette ZR1, Part Italian Model
    any ideas on how to manage to "see" one in the flesh, soon... & "Roy Wort" it?!
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    Image of The Auto Insider The Auto Insider
    04/20/09

    @J-2-da-B: It might get Roy Worted...as long as I can find a proper helmet to wear.
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