With the Mansory Gronos, the German tuner has done what it does best by taking a vehicle that wasn’t exactly subtle in the first place and turning it into a head-turner of note. If understated elegance is your thing then now is the time to look away.
Thankfully, for those whose sensitive eyes might struggle with the bright yellow paintwork, Mansory is planning to build just 10 of these – and buyers can look forward to some decent performance upgrades to match the showy wide-body exterior.
Mansory has managed to extract 625 kW and a wholesome 1 000 N.m from Mercedes-AMG’s 4,0-litre twin-turbo V8 petrol engine, which produces 430 kW and 850 N.m in the ‘standard’ G63 model upon which this vehicle is based.
Mansory hasn’t yet mentioned how it achieved these outputs, but the performance figures do look impressive, with the tuner claiming a 0-100 km/h sprint time of 3,5 seconds, which makes it a full second faster than the regular G63.
The aforementioned bright yellow exterior paint work is a matt hue and it’s complemented by various carbon aero parts in ‘Grande Square Weaver’ carbon fibre. The cabin perfectly matches this highly contrasting colour scheme with its own lavish combination of yellow and black. Because Mansory simply doesn’t do subtle.
