Ferris Rezvani grew up on air bases watching his dad fly F-4 Phantoms, wanted to be a pilot, got told no for health reasons, and decided the next best thing was making cars that scared people the same way. That origin story has been decorating press releases for a decade. The Beast X is the first Rezvani where the hardware backs it up, with canards, an S duct venting through three raised hood strakes, fender extractors, a roof scoop and a twin hoop rear wing sitting over a triple exit exhaust buried in the diffuser. It costs around $500,000, only five will exist, and Rezvani claims 1,560 horsepower.
That figure comes from a bespoke twin turbo 6.2 liter V8 with forged internals, driving all four wheels through an eight speed dual clutch for a claimed 1.9 seconds to 60. Underneath all of it sits a Corvette C8, which Rezvani’s spec page pointedly declines to name while listing a 107.2 inch wheelbase and 48.6 inch height that match Chevrolet’s exactly. The body is five inches longer and six inches wider. Everything Rezvani actually designed happens in those six inches, and the cabin gives the rest of the game away.
Designer: Rezvani Motors
The dive planes flanking the nose push air around the front wheels instead of into them, cutting front lift at speed. The S duct punches two vertical slots through the hood so pressurized air trapped under the splitter has somewhere to escape upward, a piece of open wheel racing hardware that has no business on a road car and shows up here anyway. Fender extractors pull hot, turbulent air out from the wheel wells before it can drag on the body. The twin hoop wing sits high on carbon pylons, clear of the turbulence coming off the roofline, and the triple exit exhaust clusters dead center in the diffuser instead of tucked at a corner. None of it is decorative. Every panel is doing one specific aerodynamic job, which is the difference between a body kit and an aero package.
Magnesium wheels cut seven pounds of unsprung mass at each corner, meaningful because unsprung weight is what suspension has to control on every bump rather than just accelerate. Adaptive double wishbone suspension handles the rest. That’s real engineering spend, and it’s where a chunk of the $500,000 clearly goes, even with the donor chassis unnamed on the spec sheet.
Open the door and the C8 shows through. The vertical wall of climate buttons running down the center stack is unchanged Chevrolet hardware, retrimmed in Alcantara and leather with contrast stitching and a Beast X badge on the wheel. Rezvani is doing what Italian coachbuilders did for decades, buying a proven chassis and building a new body over it, except the receipts and the fantasy are published on the same webpage. The exterior is a genuine transformation. The interior is a retrim job with better stitching.
Chevrolet’s own ZR1X makes 1,250 horsepower, hits 60 in 1.89 seconds, and starts at $207,395 with a factory warranty. Rezvani wants roughly $293,000 more for six extra inches of width, a full carbon body, and a production cap of five cars, with no independent dyno numbers behind the 1,560 hp claim yet. That’s either a steep markup for a retrim or the going rate for a body engineered like it has to survive actual airflow at speed and a promise that only four other people on earth will own one. Rezvani’s reservation lists have filled fast before. Nothing here suggests this run will be the exception.
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