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There's an Italian Company That's Turning the C8 Corvette into a Hypercar

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Our man on the other side of the pond, Mike Duff lives in Britain but reports from across Europe, sometimes beyond. He has previously held staff roles on U.K. titles including CAR, Autocar, and evo, but his own automotive tastes tend toward the Germanic: he owns both a troublesome 987-generation Porsche Cayman S and a Mercedes 190E 2.5-16.

There's a history in Italy of firms such as Scaglietti and Pininfarina rebodying Corvettes, and Ares of Modena is the latest, using a C8 to create the S1 coupe.Ares has been around since 2014 and has previously created limited-edition cars based on vehicles from Bentley, Land Rover, Mercedes, Porsche—even Tesla.The Ares S1 will be built in a limited edition of 24.Many of the most exotic car brands have origin stories of passion-wracked artisans laboring to achieve automotive perfection.

One of the S1's most striking design details is the exhausts that exit through the engine's top cover, something that required significant re-plumbing in the engine compartment.You may be feeling cynical, but the S1 has genuine superstar presence. Up close, it looks like a million dollars. Which is fortunate, because it costs slightly more than that. There was an artful inexactitude on pricing among the Ares employees we spoke to.

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