We’ve been keeping close tabs on Bertone’s  ZR-1-based Mantide supercar, and our vigilance has finally paid off. After enduring teaser video after endless teaser video, Bertone has at last revealed all in this, the last video in the “Project M” series.

To say the Mantide possesses a busy shape would be an understatement. There’s a heck [...]

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We know it’s based on a Corvette ZR-1, we know it’s got more sharp edges than a combine harvester and now we know its name.

Bertone’s latest project, previously called “Project M”, will wear the Mantide badge on its rump when it debuts at next week’s Shanghai auto show, and from what little we’ve seen of [...]

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Ever have one of those “I told you so” moments? We just did.

At the start of the month we brought you the first four episodes of Bertone’s documentary/teaser film for their upcoming Project M showstopper. Based on the limited clues given in those short vids we theorised that the guts of a Corvette ZR-1 lay [...]

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The world’s most famous motoring journalist thinks that all Americans are fat, they build big shoddy gas guzzling cars and generally use them for cruising between hamburger joints.

Or does he?

Clarkson shuns the Europeans and embraces big fat American cubic inches

Jeremy Clarkson used his Sunday Times column to reflect on the year that almost is, and [...]

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Japan vs North America in Germany. Those who remember the ‘late unpleasantness’ back in the 40’s probably shake their heads in wonder. Thankfully, for performance car fans, it’s all about the Nurburgring and a golden age for performance car bench-marking, around the most notorious race track in the world.

Japan took out round one early this [...]

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Further to our article on the ZR-1’s Nurburgring lap, the guys from Garage419 have produced a video of the ‘record-beating’ lap times, that combines them into a single presentation.

They’ve synchronised the starting point so that you can compare the two cars side by side, and see how each car performs across the same sections of [...]

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GM’s upcoming Corvette ZR-1 will be the most powerful production Vette that GM have ever built. Featuring the 6.2-litre supercharged LS9 small-block that we showed you last week this is the car that GM hopes will take the fight to the exotic supercar brigade, oh and of course Nissan’s new GT-R that will go on [...]

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