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This is my Bugatti, and today we've brought it back to the people who created this car 20 years ago, Mansory.
Mark McCann revisits his rebuilt Bugatti Veyron at Mansory, exploring the brand's history, design process, and the car's unique transformation costs.
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Key Takeaways
- Mansory is a highly exclusive and bespoke car modification brand with a polarizing reputation.
- The company combines traditional craftsmanship with modern technology to create unique supercars.
- Customization at Mansory is extremely costly but tailored to clients seeking individuality and exclusivity.
- The founder’s vision and persistence helped establish Mansory as a leader in luxury car modifications.
- Mansory’s work is both a statement of personal taste and a high-end luxury investment.
What the video covers
- Mark McCann takes his rebuilt Bugatti Veyron back to Mansory, the company that originally customized it 20 years ago.
- Mansory is a controversial luxury car modification brand known for bespoke, extravagant designs that divide opinion.
- The video explores Mansory's history, starting from the 1950s body kit origins to modern-day bespoke supercar transformations.
- Founder Kourosh Mansory shares insights on how the company started, their design process using clay and computer modeling, and their team structure.
- Mansory produces about 150 unique cars annually, each one-of-a-kind, catering to wealthy clients like celebrities and royalty.
- The video details the high costs of Mansory parts and modifications, with some components costing tens of thousands of euros.
- Mark reveals the story behind his car’s original sale to a Dubai royal family member and the challenges faced with the build.
- The craftsmanship and manufacturing process at Mansory are highlighted, including interior customization and metalwork.
- The video discusses the polarizing nature of Mansory’s designs, which are loved by some and hated by others.
- Ultimately, the video questions whether Mansory’s work is an overpriced luxury or a justified high-quality art form.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction: Returning the Bugatti to Mansory
- 02:18History of Car Body Kits and Mansory's Origins
- 04:06Mansory’s Early Focus on English Luxury Cars
- 06:06Mansory’s Controversial and Extreme Designs
- 08:14Founder Kourosh Mansory on Company Beginnings and Philosophy
- 12:07Mansory’s Exclusive Clientele and Production Volume
- 17:06Design and Manufacturing Process at Mansory
- 19:34Challenges and Costs of Creating Unique Mansory Cars
- 23:02Craftsmanship: Replicating the Pur Sang and Final Touches
- 25:59Conclusion: Mansory’s Legacy and Unique Market Position
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Mansory is one of the most loved, but also hated car brands in the entire [music] world. And the man behind it all, Mr.
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Mansory, Kourosh, who has not laid eyes on my car since it left his factory when he originally created it. Well, today that is all going to change because we're going to show Mr. Mansory this car for the first time since 2008.
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And ask him the question, how much did it cost to turn my car into a one-of-one Mansory Veyron? As you will see later in the video, his reaction wasn't quite what I was hoping for. There is an issue
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with this car which no one can fix. So, hopefully one of you watching this video can help us.
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Don't destroy the car. Look, no, don't do it. So, who are Mansory? [music] They basically take some of the rarest, most expensive cars in the world, and then Mansory them.
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The standard cars from the ultimate supercar brands are already crazy. And then Mansory completely transform them into bespoke, individual, loud, outrageous, ridiculous one-of-one Mansory specials. Some of which would even hurt Stevie Wonder's eyes. And these exclusive cars divide people. Some
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people think it's genius, while others argue that it ruins the car completely. But one thing that you can't argue with is it's expensive. [music] So, the full carbon bonnet is about 10,500 euros. The fenders, carbon inlay, 12,000 euros. The wheels, about 15,000
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euros. The top wing is about 12,000 euros. Rear bumper, front bumper, wide arches, side skirt, exhaust system, about 92,000.
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Now, is it expensive because it's the best quality in the business or are you paying [music] for that badge? And that's why we are here today to find out from the man himself [music] and he's giving us behind the scenes
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access and we get to know is that car there the ultimate custom built or is it an overpriced flex?
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[music] Mansory were not the first to do the whole body kit thing. In fact, it started back in the 1950s designed to make the cars go faster. And then in the '80s companies like AMG and Alpina [music] followed. But this time it was
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mostly for looks and fashion. And fast forward to now, we have companies like Brabus, Urban, Prior and Liberty Walk designing and manufacturing body kits to transform your car.
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Well, we're going to investigate Mansory, one of the most controversial design houses in the whole world and find out if this is all Teemu carbon fiber bits rebranded or is it super high quality parts that justify this expensive price tag?
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Kourosh. Hi. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Thank you for this. How and why did you start Mansory?
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Mansory it was 2004. But we had other company name in PD sign and Technic which we were [music] a producer for car parts for many many many company in Europe.
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So then suddenly after while we say it was boring to [music] only for other people.
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Uh why we should not make for ourselves something? So I become uh thinking which car we can do which So I saw that Bentley no [music] one touch.
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So Bentley was the first. So people say oh crazy this is you cannot do it. This is uh English crown or something like that.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But let's see. We'll start. And yeah, [music] we started and uh it It great succeed.
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So from the start people loved or hated. Yes, hated. There's no no possible. It cannot be. This, that.
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You miss your time. You miss money. Okay. Let them miss the money. But then you show you show there is a market.
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Yeah. After that after Martin no one touched Rolls Royce, no one touched first English car.
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Aston Martin, big big. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, right. So, first the English cars.
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Yes. Because I was in England 1978 for 3 years. So, I love England and then I was young. So, I said okay, England is done. I go to Germany. I had an uncle here. I came to here. I start
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here and well here we are. Without doubt, the Mansory company has a lot of heritage. Decades of being market leaders, they have been making body kits longer [music] than McLaren has been making mass production cars.
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22 years of this man's life has brought them to where they are today. So, how do you make your first car? This is by computer.
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I believe you know at the beginning we have we start with no computer, you know. Only clay. So, we start with a clay. So, You see, really?
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Yeah, yeah. Clay is still what the top manufacturing brands use today. In fact, [music] many launch cars that you see at shows are not quite what you think they are. Many cars are only models, non-functional [music] visuals.
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And Mr. Mansory is working the same craftsmanship as these billion dollar companies designing prototyping and enhancing. And if you like what he does or not, you have to take your hat off to what he has already achieved. Did you
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design to start with? This was your design on a piece of paper, you sketch it.
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Yes, yes, yeah. And now you have how many designers? We have we have at the moment six people which is working together. All the yeah, all together we are a team. You understand, we match everything. So, and that's our succeed that we are fast. We
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are really fast. You see, we have six projects in a in a year. Over the years, the Mansory brand has become very Marmite. Some of the cars which come out of the factory are, well, we could say brave. Without doubt, not
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everyone's cup of tea. And that is why this brand is so controversial. I think that nearly all of you would [music] agree that this Urus is wildly extreme. And I don't think this would sit right in Redditch parked outside
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[music] the Harvester. But, when you are an A-list celebrity in LA, or a millionaire footballer cruising the streets of London, then this individual look makes you stand out from the crowd. And that is why Mansory is the go-to choice for
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the rich and the famous. [music] Do you know how many cars Mansory has made from the start?
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Uh you mean complete complete? Altogether? Wow. Couple of thousand. [music] Really? Yeah, yeah. Big big numbers.
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Yes, in a year at least 150 cars. And everyone different? Everyone different. You [music] cannot find one is the same the other as the other one. It's always something different. [music] Just 150 cars worldwide a year does make
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this club extremely exclusive. Especially as you will see later in this video, Mr. Mansory's cost [music] to manufacture a new design is a big big pill to swallow. If it was me, I would have a sausage factory, a fast
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production line to amortize the massive development cost. But, this does help to understand why Mansory is such [music] an expensive price point. And sometimes when your customer chooses a spec, what do you think?
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[laughter] Well, we are happy [music] that we have headache all of them all of us, to be honest, because we make fun. And not only we are working for the money, no.
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We it's fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why we are [music] happy if customer come something give us a not possible which make possible like your car.
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Yeah, yeah. Really? Yeah. Okay, that's going to be we'll get [music] on to that later cuz I think I'm excited to find out how and why [snorts] that journey came. Because it's been a hell of a story.
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Yeah. So how it was born is going to [music] be really interesting. Yeah. Yeah, you know this business is tough honestly and you have to always be [music] behind and not give up.
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Always new, always be forward. And and improve, improve, improve, developing quality and everything. So Now my car originally [music] was sold to a member of the royal family in Dubai. He wanted a Pershing and money was no object which to me sounds [music]
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crazy. But apart from those royal prices, who else is the typical Mansory buyer? Well, we have we have [music] celebrity, soccer player, a lot of different.
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So the person who [music] has money but wants to be unique, different to everybody else.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As you say, if you have your money you have to enjoy. You cannot [music] take with you. Better in this life.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. It's clear that this is [music] Cyrus' passion. A designer who will literally make you anything if you have the budget. So of course with a load of staff all over the world this [music] is a big company.
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In fact, Chat GPT says that Mansory turns over 30 million pounds [music] a year.
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This is huge business and those numbers prove it. So it's irrelevant if you like these cars or not. There is obviously a huge demand for people who want to have that one-of-one individuality. [music] And I think there's an ever-increasing
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reason why people want to stand out. Because in places like Dubai, it's not uncommon to see a Lambo. There is so much wealth that supercars and even hypercars are basically just traffic.
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For example, if your daily whip is a 300 K Urus, it doesn't even turn heads.
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But if you rock up in a car dripping in carbon spoilers [music] and in colors like an explosion in a paint factory, then you stick out.
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You are not just one of the crowd. The ultra rich and ultra famous have money and lots of it. And many don't want to look like everyone else.
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Now, some would say money can't buy you taste or class. But what it can do is make you individual. One thing is for certain, with a Mansory, you will never be pulling up to a traffic light next to
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another version of your car. And maybe that is why these conversions are so expensive. And if you browse the internet, you can find all sorts of body kits, and it's for a fraction of the cost. So why is there such a big
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difference? It's easy to think that these rebadged Chinese kits from [music] Alibaba, made in China, even Temu, it's all there for the reseller to click by [music] and just add a logo.
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But my god, this couldn't be any further from that. Because we make mostly everything in house.
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Exhaust system, we make up to we buy off in house. Liverpool city there about 300 far from here is our own carbon production, 3D modeling, everything from our hand. It in Czech Republic is 1 hour from here away. Unlimited freedom.
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Yes. Yeah. So Mr. Mansory is telling us that they make it all start to finish here in their own production facilities.
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This isn't a rebadged cheap Chinese import. And to show us, he took us on a tour behind the scenes, [music] and he hid nothing.
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Well, apart from one car, which we will show you shortly. He allowed us a quick glimpse. A car that in a week will be filling your Instagram feed.
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The latest car from a brand we can't mention. And the car model you would never be able to guess.
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There are a line of processes to get to the end product of a Mansory car, which we will go through now. This company will literally make you anything, even if you just want a one-off.
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Which is just like my car back in 2008. And Kourosh will show us some of the lengths that they went to 18 years ago, which was simply ridiculous. They made parts for my car that at the time only
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Bugatti had achieved. But for now, let's get through the steps, and the first one is design. This is where a dream and a vision go from brain to a piece of paper. Well, this 2026 paper.
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Hi, I'm Mark. Hi. Nice to meet you. Well, can we show this? Yes, yes.
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This is a team of six designers of Mansory cars we see on the road today.
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But the difference is they will speak individually to the [music] customer to sketch and make them any crazy idea that they want. So, this now, would this be a customer want something special?
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No, this is our project. This is your project. Yeah, yeah. The next car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We we we make the mold everything. So, maybe some customer could, let's say, afford them pay, but such a project cost you about half a
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million euro. To start. Yeah, I mean, from starting exactly [music] from start to finish to be finished, yeah.
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Yeah, for that first one. Yeah, yeah. There is extreme cost to small production numbers. Spending half a million pound on just designing tooling has to be amortized on the parts that they sell.
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This isn't huge volume, so even if they sell 10 identical kits, that 500,000 pound will still add a huge 50 grand to the finish cost. It's obviously a very expensive and [music] difficult business.
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But so I guess some people, some of your customers are billionaires. Yeah, some some we have. They want to make something uh owns. Maybe he don't like front or he don't like rear or something like that. So we
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change him different. We make for instance for the Esco, he makes some add-on parts for him. Or we made for some other Ferrari cars, hypercars, we made some diffuser he didn't like. We make him the new diffuser.
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Just for him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you tell us some of the famous names which people would have heard of?
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I don't know. Footballers, but Yeah, many. But quiet. But luckily for us, the internet does not hide many secrets. And this shows us off the long list of celebrities who have been to the factory and bought these cars. The obvious one is Marcus
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Rashford, but also Conor McGregor, Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Floyd Mayweather, the list goes on and on of famous people.
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This is a brand that people want to be seen with. Like some of the bloody handbags which are in our house. I think that Mansory works because some people want to stand out, to have a car that nobody else has. But with the exposing
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on social media, Kourosh knows he has to have a product which absolutely millimeter perfect fits. There are so many videos online where you have to butcher a car.
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And that's why Mansory have invested heavily in process number two, [music] scan and fit.
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Here we have uh mostly developing a market, a scan a scan master. Scan master. So this is scanning. You see everything.
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special cars, very new. And this makes millimeter perfection. A little bit more. 0.01. 0.01.
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It's a little different from the clay. Yes. Much better and not not dirty. Yeah.
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So once Mansory get their hands on the latest brand new car, it gets scanned.
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Every micrometer is stored to create an exact 3D model. Which they can then use to design and build with confidence it will all line up perfectly. And with the parts designed, it's tooling next. Again, made in-house. CNC [music] milled tooling to
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make sure every carbon fiber spoiler, splitter, diffuser comes off the very small production line is perfect.
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[music] And it's all done by Mansory themselves. They control everything. Also, the interior is made here. The leather, the Alcantara, embroidery, laser etching is all done by themselves.
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Start to finish by their team. This is [music] extreme craftsmanship. And then another part you would never think is done [music] in-house. But upstairs in one of the warehouses is a hidden gem of engineering. Stuff that I was brought up
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with. People don't see this. This is This is Molds. All molds for the exhaust.
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[music] They make all the exhaust. Guillotines, presses, tube benders, welders. [music] Start to finish, Mansory.
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Now we make here prototype, yeah. So this is first stuff. First stuff, molding, yeah.
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You know which exhaust it is? The original one. It's a Bugatti. [music] Yeah. This is the exhaust of a 10 million pound hypercar, which [music] we are not able to mention.
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This is the Bugatti Mistral. You can be only succeed if you make all by your own. If you make go outside, you are done.
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Yeah, I think time wise and everything. Time wise, you have to do If you go somewhere, if they have no time, he makes something and maybe maybe and then when you shout to him he say okay, take and go away.
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The in-house exhaust manufacturing facility is to simply ensure control of quality and speed. You'd have no idea would you of the detail. You know, you just think there would be a bought in exhaust from some different country of
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lesser pie. But not here. Like everything is designed manufactured bespoke. And you know you sort of like think that's expensive.
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That's why it's expensive. As an engineer, I'm blown away. Sound like your mum? No.
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We have seen from start to finish what it takes to make a Mansory car. We know that they modify cars and we know they go to the extreme. [music] But what we are about to see proves they literally have no limits. All of this
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unique bespoke work takes a standard 200,000 pound Mercedes G Wagon to a Mansory fully loaded version at a staggering 350 grand. But why would you stop there when you can do extra special crazy?
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How about a half a million pound version? [music] Door handle diff. And the door is different.
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So, you get Rolls-Royce style suicide doors. That's a big project to start that for your first time.
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Big project. big work. I mean, each car takes at least two weeks only to make the door.
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Just that. Just that. And then it's not finished. Because you have to make all the grinding, sanding, painting. So, it's It's so much better though.
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So much better. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. People don't don't believe what we are doing. Don't believe, but they it is really we make Today we see like this is we do all by ourself.
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This is so bloody expensive. It's ridiculous. But this isn't a body kit. It's re-fabricating a G Wagon, which now would turn every head, even in the posh Dubai streets.
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But it doesn't stop there. They are making a G Wagon model that even Mercedes never built.
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Oh my god. So the convertible G Wagon. Four door and two door we have all of them.
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So this is the first. Yeah. [music] A convertible, which pretty much has nothing standard. Love it or hate it, you have to admire the effort they have gone to. This isn't my cup of tea for sure, but it shows what this brand is
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capable of. This isn't a bolt-on kit. It's getting a 200 grand car and setting about it with a 9-in angle grinder.
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[music] To get the safety certificate, so this must be so expensive. Very very expensive and difficult.
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So with everything designed and made, the next part of this process is where the magic turns into reality.
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Here we are in our workshop. Yeah. So this is strip production. [music] Yes yes.
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So every every brand in this room is some of the most beautiful and expensive [music] cars that money can buy. But what's hidden at the back is a whole new level.
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Yeah, here at the moment we have Lamborghini, Porsche, Rolls Royce, Bugatti, which is very extremely um confidential. Yeah.
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So we go see that first. [music] see it, but you don't film lot here. Not for today.
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He's got bad hearing. That's Maybach So behind that lens, we were looking at a Bugatti Mistral, one of 99 ever made, and it's worth over $10 million, and it's about to be Mansorid. How brave do you have to be to modify this car?
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But, here it is, getting transformed, which we will show on our Instagram page as soon as we are allowed.
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Just describe what you can see. We need this. Can we borrow this? No. No, mine is broken. Mine is broken.
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How is broken? Um the sensor. The sensor in here. broken. So, um Maybe I can uh check for you.
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Ah, perfect. So, now the uh the wing is always high. Ah, okay. Which is no problem. It still looks good. I I will check.
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Ah, brilliant. Thank you. Maybe I can get it for you. No problem. Ah, thank you. Thank you. What can What can we show? Nothing or a bit or Just a quick.
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Quick. Ready? [laughter] You're now on videos as pause. [laughter] [clears throat] I can't believe you have a new Bugatti.
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Yeah, why not? I thought they'd be scared. No. We can do everything. I don't We don't scare.
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But, I thought Bugatti would say, "No, no no no." No, the customer wish, you know.
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Yeah, for sure. Yes. Customer is king. Now, I've actually come up with a theory. We all know Bugatti gave me the silent treatment.
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Ghosted ignored vanished radio silence, ice out, turn a deaf ear, cold shoulder blanked excluded bypassed left out. Basically, they ignored me, and I did wonder, [music] is it because Mansory had personed my car? So, Bugatti don't fight you.
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Um no, why should we fight? I mean, customer wish is different. He want to be different. So, we are there to make him as he want, you know? [music] Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. When when we repaired my car, Yeah. they wouldn't help. And we thought it might be because of [music] the Mansory Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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edition Bugatti. So, we thought maybe they don't know it's Mansory, but obviously not. Well, I don't know the reason. Normally, they are good people honestly. They are good people. They are polite. They are helpful normally. But, uh I
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In In your case, I don't know what happened. What the reason was uh I don't know really.
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No. So, now the last process, Kiirosh is going to show us, and maybe the one which will make you love or hate even more.
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The faded paint schemes are a brave choice. It would definitely restrict its resale. But, is that thinking the wrong way?
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Really, you shouldn't worry about that. You should buy what you want and live for today.
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You do everything yourself. Yes. They have a very good team, good painter. Yeah, yeah.
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And they think how how to do, what to do. And in here is a piece of history.
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A piece of Bugatti Mistral, which we can't mention or film. This is Bugatti. Can't show that.
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Bugatti Bugatti. So, is this you've made this panel again? Yes. From the start? Yes.
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So, history is repeating itself. 18 years ago, Mansory modified a one-of-one Bugatti, my car. And now, Mansory are making another one-of-one Bugatti, the next generation of the bespoke panel. I can't wait to hear the story from Kiirosh to what happened to my car all
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those years ago. And you will see it's pretty mind-blowing. Now we have seen the entire process [music] and they make everything in the factories across Europe from start to finish.
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I feel very lucky that he has let us see everything apart from the Bugatti stuff we can't mention like the Bugatti Mistral which we can't mention. So now Koroush is going to show us some finished cars for his customers.
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Do not adjust your screen. Your TV is not broke. [music] I think the word extreme.
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Yeah. You know, choreography literally is Arabic yeah? But actually, yeah. So that's Arabic, yeah, yeah.
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You cannot read Arabic, yeah? I can. No. [laughter] Here here is written [clears throat] Mansory.
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Over and over again. Yeah. So that says Mansory Mansory Mansory. [laughter] Wow. Yeah. [music] That's crazy. Even the start button.
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Yeah. [music] How does the exhaust move? Crazy. All our car is crazy. Because we are crazy here.
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Is this to you the perfection? This car, yes, yes. If you see the cylinder original, you have the and that's what we make [music] is a is complete different.
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It's mental. And the thing the thing is the detail. I didn't realize the detail.
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[music] I don't think most of you guys will realize the detail. It's not just for me, I always thought it was like a little bit stuck on here, [music] bit of Mansory glue here, and maybe a different color interior. I had no idea
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how in depth this is. [music] Look at the back. Oh my god. [laughter] That's not an exhaust. That's an exhaust.
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Look at the roof scoop. And you see all function. We don't make anything which is non-function.
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You know, so it's not just bull No, no, no. It's it's a bringing cooling system something or for the brake cooling brake for the Yeah, so everything we looking in the tunnel So you put stuff in a wind tunnel as
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well? Yes, yes, yes, yes. People don't know this. Yeah, yeah. Do you know what this cost you?
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Roughly about mold cost 800,000 euro. So this must be a By the time you finish it 2 million, 2 million Roughly.
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Roughly. And that and that and that and that. That is even blue. The level of detail in these cars is unbelievable.
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I'm excited to show Korosh the old Mansory Veyron. Imagine if he says it's fake. Well, then you've been scammed.
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It's like the opposite of a GT3 RS. And we got another one. Now, don't get me wrong. Not every car in here is to my taste, and I'm pretty sure you guys would be the same.
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But, if we all like the same thing, [music] this world would be a pretty boring place. Last week, I put an Instagram reel up of this car. It's definitely clickable as it has nearly a million views, and it basically got
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4,000 comments of people telling me it had ruined their dinner. Like I have a a Brabus GLE Coupe 850.
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yeah, yeah, yeah. Amazing car. And then when I bought uh the Bugatti, and it was a Mansory, I was like, "Yes, it's a Mansory, it's a Mansory." [music] And then the comments, I like some people, "Oh my god." And some people,
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the absolute opposite. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you People are uh different.
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And it it it's in everything. You You like black, he like white. It is taste is different. Yeah. But generally, we are the winner. I mean, uh less people uh will let's say hating us or don't like us. In
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average, we are we have more. So, that you have to live with it. Yeah.
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Today, we have been lucky enough to see the full process of how Mansory create these masterpieces or monstrosities, depending [music] on your opinion.
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And the price is Well, here is another problem Koroush faces every day. Today, we're going to be reviewing my 2023 G Wagon Mansory. Is it the real deal?
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No. No, it's not. I'm not going to pay a million dollars [laughter] for this.
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So, I did some more Googling, and it turns out there are a lot of copies. And this one is a fraction, and I mean a fraction of the price. I own a motocross brand called FRO Systems, and ever since
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day one, we have been copied by factories in China. Disrespectful, blatant [music] infringement of our design rights, and I know how frustrating that can be. I want to talk as well about how you're copied. How many Mansorys now are not Mansorys?
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A lot. A lot. But they see everywhere from the Instagram how many cars moving, how many people you cannot follow. It's even Nigeria to Nigeria I saw you two last week.
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Romanian Ukraine uh crazy. And in total I mean on side you are proud that people copy you because it's a huge you don't copy you, but in other case you lose a customer, you lose face because [music] most dealer they don't tell you.
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That's the thing. I wonder how many people think that they are driving a Mansory.
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I think 50/50. Really? Yeah. The 50% people they don't care about the same as the clothes, yeah? You can buy a nice fake or the other one say no, I don't care, you know? It's you cannot change the people. The people mind is
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different. Yeah, yeah. Real Mansory cars are expensive, but they can hold their value and in some cases even make money. Simply because they are so rare. And as we've shown often on this channel, special edition low numbered cars can be great
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investments. And that is pretty much why we are here today to find out how much Mansory charged the royal family. And over the last 20 years, has my car made or lost money?
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We know that my car new Bugatti was a million pounds. But what we don't know is how much the Mansory purse and conversion was. But luckily, we have the main man who typed out that invoice. And we get to see later the bill.
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Well, it was eye-watering. I believe in that time we charged about Now, I'm pretty sure that one or two cars that you have seen here today are that outrageous, you would rather walk.
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But what about the original brands who made them, who spent millions on designing their [music] cars? And then the Mansory team pretty much ignored that and started again. Does Kourosh ever hear from any of them? Well, I mean, from their solicitors. From
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everything we hear on the internet, surely a car brand making red cars, which I can't mention in case I get sued, apparently send people Italian-based letters. Allegedly. Don't sue me. Have they tried to sue him?
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[music] Just asking. I'm sure we all know who I mean without saying who and getting [music] me into trouble.
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Of course we take care about logo that we don't put any logo from them as long as we change the engine. [music] And Ferrari, no problem?
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No, no, no. We have no problem. And everybody believe Ferrari No, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce.
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[music] No, we really no problem. I mean, they hate half, they love us. But what Mansory did with my car was take a bog standard [music] property spec 16.4 base model Bugatti and turn it [music] into a Pur Sang, making an exact
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copy of their special edition. Literally a mirror image. Literally. The original Pur Sangs, they only [music] made five pieces and obviously sold out instantly.
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And they were 1.4 [music] million pounds. But how much in total after the conversion was my Mansory Veyron? Let's show Mr. Mansory my car and see what that bill was back in 2008.
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[singing] [music] So [music] I think you haven't seen this car for 18 years. Yes, that was the first one and the last one.
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Because as Bugatti announced five piece limited Pur Sang So that was sold out Like that.
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Like that. So, then we had a our partner in Abu Dhabi, he had a customer, he wanted in any cost, in any price a Persang.
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a Persang. And he asked me if we can do. I said, "I don't know because this is completely [music] different than our our job, yeah? Okay, carbon, okay, the combination, but no problem to do, but um as a polish
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was So, this was Mansory's first hurdle. The original Persang had a shiny [music] smooth finish, but this isn't a chrome wrap. This is polished aluminum, and apparently a very difficult finish to achieve.
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Yeah, we received the car, we felt which part is aluminum, which part is not aluminum, which part is composite. So, finally we find out what we can do, what we cannot do, yeah? So, if you see, for instance, the front bumper completely in
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fully aluminum milled. So, that was one billet piece of [music] metal. One block aluminum.
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One block. block, yeah, milled. So, a standard Bugatti Veyron [music] has a carbon fiber front bumper, but to replicate the Persang properly, it needed to be made of metal, shiny polished aluminum.
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But there was no way of getting that part apart from making it from scratch.
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So, Mansory bought one huge coffin-sized billet of metal, and our team imagine spent weeks of machining it to shape, bit by bit, until it was a like-for-like Persang metal bumper.
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That must be so expensive. That was At that time, I don't know, we have paid for only the bumper, I believe, 100,000 K.
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Only the bumper. And the back is the same? Back the same, uh this one I have a still one part still here.
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A spare? Yeah. The rear bumper I know because this two side was milled, yeah?
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Yeah. So, apparently, there were lots of other parts on my car which were not original metal. So, all these parts needed changing to make an exact Bugatti Pur Sang replica.
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Uh rest it was a Yeah, I cannot I cannot explain you what kind of work it was because you have to sand it.
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Yes. And then you must to polish it that be the same as [music] the Pur Sang car, yeah?
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Yeah, yeah. So, but we have a never see the car how it look like. So, we had to only from the picture to see the how is the shiny, how is the quality and everything. So, it's only only from the magazine,
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internet, and so on. But I believe we work only on the sanding, polishing a special machine.
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[music] We hire people to come here to to give us a special tooling for how how we can do it. Uh I don't know. I think we have worked on this car over 6 months.
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Over 6 months. But finally was really This is also milled, by the way. That was milled as well.
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Yeah. What Mansory pulled off was nothing short of beautiful. A work of art replicated from only magazine photos.
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They made a car with perfect gaps and the exact shape. A car which was built to last the test of time.
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What they did 18 years ago was built a dream and I am so grateful to say that dream is now mine.
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We now even have the photo from it being on a Top Gear shoot in Dubai.
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That was more work than any any car because that was ever ever because all really complete people was getting crazy because of work, because of the even the milling.
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We didn't we had to find a company Big enough. big big for milling such a block aluminum yeah?
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Yeah, yeah. Huge. So, this took more time than that? Yes. Yeah. As an engineer, I can appreciate the time and effort that must have gone into this car. We all know it had a bad gearbox [music] but just look at it now. 18 years on and
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it's back, but some of it in 2008 got left behind. And it's been sat on a dusty shelf waiting [music] for today.
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[laughter] That's been in stock for 18 years. Yeah, yes. I have. This side from doors is the rear bumper.
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Two piece scheme up. You can have for your history. Are you sure? Yeah. I have the other one, you have this one.
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That's amazing. Thank you. Yeah. You just saved one. Oh, that's a [music] It's aluminum.
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If I crash, can I swap sides? [laughter] That's why I give it. [clears throat] Oh, thank you so much. You must sign it.
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Of course. How did you remember where this was? I keep everything. The important thing.
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Yeah. Yeah. Special. Yeah. Big memory. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, myself, Reece, Olly and Chris have come all the way to meet Kiarash on a lads holiday. Sorry, work [music] trip.
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And ask him three very important questions. Number one, how much did the Dubai royal family pay [music] him to modify my car?
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Number two, to ask him his opinion on the plans that I have in the future for this car. And number three, ask him about an issue that we are currently having, which hopefully he can help us with. The problem we have
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Yeah. which you can see here. Can you see the the shadows, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So, when I bought this car, you saw that the bare aluminum was covered in stains, a cloudy milky areas, which was basically the aluminum rust. But, this metal is polished. [music] It's bare.
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There is no coating, no cover. It's open to the elements. So, it had oxidized.
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Bob from the machine shop worked his magic. Luke and Bob spent weeks sanding, polishing, buffing all the oxidization milky areas out. It was perfect, literally like a mirror.
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But, every day since then, bit by bit, the cloudy milky finish is coming back.
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And, I can tell you, it's very frustrating because every time you polish it, it just comes back within hours.
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Did you lacquer this to start with, or was it just bare aluminum? It's all polished. All polished. But, you know, it's in the material.
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In the material of of the aluminum. So some we had we got headache really. Some places is okay. This is in back side is good, yeah? Here not here. My door and this this is material aluminum which we
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could not get why that happen. We had started we have been bringing so many people but that was crazy. I don't know. Did you see any original?
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No, never. That's why we don't know how it looks the other cars, you know?
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I've been told the over car, the original, no cloud. No cloud? No cloud. And, that's why I was hoping that maybe But, if you see here is also is clean.
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Small cloud but it's clean. But, I don't know how, you know, as you don't never see the car. You don't know how you cannot imagine.
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I was hoping that you'd lacquered it, and then after that somebody had rubbed it and made it go cloudy, so you had the same problem.
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paint. You had the same problem. not chrome paint, you know? No. Any chrome paint you you you use I've been we done a lot we done a lot never succeed.
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So, you tried everything? Yes. We had more than headache. My car has been on one hell of a journey. It was originally sold to a dealership in Monaco [music] in 2006.
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And then it was bought by a member of the Dubai Royal Family. It initially looked like this. And it lived peacefully in the UAE for 2 years.
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But then Bugatti released a very limited Veyron called the Pur Sang. And this is where my car story really started.
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The prince in Dubai wanted a Pur Sang, but Bugatti instantly sold all five. So he looked for a modification company to commission a Pur Sang, an exact replica.
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Mansory then spent 6 months converting it to what it looks like today. Then it was shipped back to Dubai where it was loved for many years.
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But 10 years ago it got imported back to here, the UK. And owned by the same guy who owned Matt Armstrong's Veyron.
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After a few years it was sold to a guy called Howdy. And then in 2021 he started to have issues with the gearbox.
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He used it for a year without reversing. He must have lived on a roundabout.
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Fast forward, a load of workshops, and 2026 Mark from Redish bought it and somehow assembled the most legendary team ever.
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Who worked together to fix and get it to here today. That's some journey for one little car.
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The shiny spoon finish is amazing. But I've always had my concerns. It's basically a mirror, so it reflects everything. If you park it next to a hedge, the car is green. If you park it next to a port-a-loo, it's blue.
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Even if you try and take a photo of this car, you have to be in the shot.
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So I have a vision to turn this car into my own. A few little tweaks to make it more Redish. My P1, my SVJ, and my KTM all have spec mods to make them the cars that I love so much. Don't worry, I'm
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not turning it matte black. But, this was my idea. This was my vision. [music] This is a big difference, but the color PPF wrap would make the car more usable.
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[music] And after all, we live in England, and I live down a muddy lane most of the year.
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Let me know in the comments what you guys think. [music] Now, I wanted Mr. Mansory's opinion.
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Hopefully, he likes it. My vision for my dream Bugatti Veyron, which I still cannot believe that this is actually mine. So, this is what I may be make it look like. So, still keeping the carbon.
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Don't destroy the car. The car is perfect. No, don't do it. No, this can make anyone, everyone. This cannot make everyone.
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This is masterpiece. This is no one can make it. This you can do. Paint shop, they can paint you.
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No. You lose your value. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. This was Yeah, your history. That is everywhere.
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This only wrap. Yeah, I mean wrap, okay. Yeah, only wrap. To because of the cloudiness and this is maybe the interior.
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That's nice. This is nice, yeah. That is nice. Or even orange if you have the fit for the for this color.
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For this color. Orange and brown. Orange would be amazing. Amazing. Because this is it's nice, but for the car it is dark.
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But, you not think it would look weird from inside this with the chrome and the black?
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My In my taste is I mean, blue is nice, but you see if you see you staying [music] here, then you look the car, the car is dark.
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But, if you see the orange, the car is bringing you life. Yeah. Another level. If you see my Mansory now, they make a new orange. If it's like a Mandarin orange like a Rolls-Royce, [music] but it's touch different, yeah? It's
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crazy. I will say this one or this one? Yeah, yeah. It looked the car if you see from the outside.
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Uh I let her put it in. You see? How the car going open. Yeah, like bright.
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Yeah, yeah. This is dark. You see? It's you don't see. Yeah, too. No more life inside.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, if you have a suggestion to what I should do, please let me know. This shiny spoon is no longer shiny spoon. So, any ideas, please drop a comment. Now, let's find out this question that I have been dying
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to know. How much was that bill to change my car into a Mansory Persang Veyron?
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Do you remember roughly how much this car cost to convert? The convert, I believe in that time we charged about 700.
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And that was 18 years ago. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. [laughter] Big job. Yeah, big job. But this was for us also challenge. Uh but uh we have done it. He was happy.
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That's almost double the price of the car. That time car was about 1 million, no?
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Yeah, yes. It was. Yeah, yeah. 1 million. Wow. So, my car was a million pound new. And with the Mansory conversion [music] in British pounds, it stood the owner 1.6 million. And 18 years on, in the last video, we know it's [music]
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currently worth around 2 million pound. So, in total, the car has gone up 400,000 pound.
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And that number is only ever going to go up. Since we started this work trip to Germany, my perception of Mansory has changed dramatically. [music] These guys are the forefront of designing and customizing cars. We have seen some ground-breaking engineering.
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They are the real deal. [music] And I feel very safe and very proud that my car is at Mansory. Thank you for watching and we'll see you next Tuesday, 6:00 p.m.
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You know how much this cost? Middle panel. Thank you so much. Thank you.
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