Spotted!!! Qvale Mangusta!!!!

There are two of them in Vegas. I know one of the owners, and he is excited whenver he meets someone that actually knows anything about his car. Interesting cars, interesting owners.

They are going for $40k? Wow.

R.

No disrespect to those who own/or like them. But it is not a Mangusta. The name should never have been put on this car. It may have respectable performance but it looks like “Lipstick on a pig “. My guess is that is why there are new ones still available.

$40K will buy you a nice Pantera. Not as practical as a daily driver, but it will not continue to depreciate as the Qvale.

I saw one on the expressway in Boston, MA. It took a moment to register exactly what I was looking at. Metallic red. Better looking in person than in photographs, I think.

I pulled up next to one at a stop light when I was dating my wife in Ft Lauderdale. The guy kind of snubbed me till I responded knowing exactly what it was.

The 'new' Mangusta was an incredibly brave concept and efffort at the time. But someone in the styling department let Mr. Qvale and 'would be' fans down.

The face is like that of a very angry clown, posssibly hooked on prescription medication.

I've often considered what, if anything, one could do to erase or modify this atrocity, but if you factor in what it'd cost to do so, you're in the price range of another, more appealing car.

All this is of course my opinion, subject to all manner of disagreement, but indeeed there's a reason that several new Mangustas - still on MSO - are available.

The Atlanta highline dealer auction sold one with mileage in the 20's for $25,500 two Thursdays ago.