{"id":884154,"date":"2025-01-24T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=884154"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T09:18:46","slug":"manthey-kit-undergoes-real-world-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/manthey-kit-undergoes-real-world-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Manthey Kit Undergoes Real World Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don&#8217;t know savagegeese, they&#8217;re most famous for their work on the eponymously named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@savagegeese\">YouTube channel<\/a>. Their documentary-style approach to car reviewing has garnered close to 800,000 subscribers on YouTube alone, where they strike a wonderful balance with cinematic production quality and in-depth technical\/engineering analysis.<\/p>\n<p>In one their most recent videos, the savagegeese crew collaborated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manthey-racing.com\/\">Manthey<\/a> team\u2014some of whom I&#8217;ve also had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuttcars.com\/manthey-an-icon-in-the-world-of-motorsports-racing\/\">the pleasure of working with personally<\/a>\u2014who flew in from Germany for a rendezvous at <a href=\"https:\/\/autobahncc.com\/\">Autobahn Country Club<\/a> in Joliet, Illinois.\u00a0 The video, which is almost 40 minutes long, starts off with presenter Jack Holmes remarking that <em>&#8220;&#8230;this is about to be a very long, very technical, nerdy video, on a very expensive niche product&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> leaving very little up in the air in terms of what you should be expecting.<\/p>\n<p>While the platform used exclusively for this analysis is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/porsche-x-la-auto-show-porsche-718-cayman-gt4-rs-specs-revealed\/\">Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS<\/a>, the overall findings are likely translatable on a 1:1 basis across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manthey-racing.com\/models?page=2\">Manthey Kit product line<\/a>. Each Kit\u2014whether it&#8217;s for the GT4 or, all the way up to the GT2 RS\u2014shares the same philosophy and adds similarly meaningful improvements to the production car platform they&#8217;re made for. As mentioned already, it&#8217;s a really comprehensive production, covering everything from Manthey&#8217;s company history, how they engineer their parts, to of course, setting lap times and then analyzing the data.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the Manthey car is faster\u2014but that&#8217;s hardly a spoiler. The real question is: <em>&#8220;is it worth the money?&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Watch to find out. 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In one their most recent videos, the savagegeese crew collaborated with the Manthey team\u2014some of whom I&#8217;ve also had the pleasure of working with personally\u2014who flew in from Germany for a rendezvous at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":884155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16906],"tags":[22981,89,22984,18990],"class_list":["post-884154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-porsche","tag-manthey","tag-porsche","tag-porsche-718-cayman-gt4-rs","tag-videos-savagegeese"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Manthey Kit Undergoes Real World Evaluation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Popular YouTuber savagegeese provides a deep-dive into the Manthey Kit&#039;s tangible benefits. 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