Rezvani Turns the Corvette Into a 1,560-Horsepower Fighter Jet

Rezvani is a slightly strange company. It takes existing platforms and makes its own models out of them. But that can mean making yet another Porsche restomod, a giant armor-plated tank-like SUV, or an aggressively styled supercar.The Rezvani Beast X falls squarely into the last category. a C8 Chevrolet Corvette that has been skinned, tuned, and rebodied with a fighter-jet-inspired, all-carbon-fiber body. It retains the C8’s mid-engine proportions, underlying structure, and glasshouse, but the looks are entirely different, with aggressive new bodywork carved with deep channels, sharp creases, enormous vents, and lots of aero elements. It looks far more expensive and futuristic than the car it’s based on, even if its rear lights look a lot like the Lotus Emira’s.Rezvani Beast X. Courtesy of Rezvani MotorsRezvani Beast X. Courtesy of Rezvani MotorsIt’s also faster than a Corvette. Rezvani keeps General Motors’ 6.2-liter V-8 but dials up the tuning and adds twin turbos, producing a claimed 1,560 horsepower and 1,280 pound-feet of torque. An eight-speed dual-clutch transmission sends power through what Rezvani calls a full-time all-wheel-drive system, which appears to borrow the front-axle hardware from the outgoing hybrid Corvette E-Ray. Rezvani claims it will go from zero to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds on a drag strip, but it can also handle itself over a wide range of terrain, with modes for snow, sand, mud, rock crawling, and Baja driving. Rezvani gives it a bunch of other performance improvements, including lightweight magnesium wheels — 20 inches in front and 21 inches at the rear — that the company claims save seven pounds of unsprung mass at each corner. The only letdown is the interior, which is basically a retrimmed version of the standard Corvette interior, but with the Corvette steering wheel having been chopped into a yoke. It looks cheap and slightly weird.Rezvani Beast X. Courtesy of Rezvani MotorsThe company is supposedly making only five of them, at an undisclosed price.

Rezvani Turns the Corvette Into a 1,560-Horsepower Fighter Jet

Rezvani Turns the Corvette Into a 1,560-Horsepower Fighter Jet

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