Rezvani has never been shy about turning a Corvette into something unrecognizable, but the Beast X pushes that habit about as far as it will go. The Costa Mesa, California shop’s newest build pairs a bespoke twin-turbocharged 6.2-liter V8 with an all-wheel-drive system to make 1,560 horsepower, enough for a claimed 0-60 mph run of 1.9 seconds. Rezvani is building exactly five.
The Drivetrain Gives Away the Donor
Rezvani doesn’t say outright which Corvette trim it starts with, but the drivetrain layout answers the question anyway. Chevrolet sells exactly one C8 variant that sends power to all four wheels: the E-Ray, which pairs the 6.2-liter LT2 V8 with a front-mounted electric motor rather than a conventional front differential and transfer case. That’s very likely the hardware Rezvani built around before grafting on its own twin-turbo kit. Going from a 655-hp hybrid setup to 1,560 hp isn’t just a matter of bigger turbochargers, either; the battery, motor controller, and front-axle cooling all have to be re-engineered to survive more than double the torque they were designed for.
An Entirely New Body, Not a Kit
Rezvani wrapped that drivetrain in a fully bespoke carbon fiber body, and essentially nothing of the C8’s factory sheet metal remains recognizable. The list of changes includes dihedral doors that swing up rather than out, magnesium wheels that Rezvani says shave seven pounds of unsprung mass at each corner, and carbon fiber seats with customizable inserts. Around back, the car carries twin hoop-style spoilers rather than the single wing most tuners settle for, a detail that reads more like a design statement than a wind-tunnel requirement, even if Rezvani frames the whole body as aerodynamically driven.
What “Only Five” Actually Means for Buyers
Rezvani isn’t publishing a retail price for the Beast X on its own site. What is public is the entry point: a $1,500 refundable deposit through Rezvani’s reservation page holds a spot toward one of the five build slots. That’s a low-risk way to get in line, but anyone seriously considering it should push for a signed build agreement with itemized pricing before that deposit turns into a real commitment. That’s standard advice for commissioning any low-volume coachbuilt car, where scope and cost have a way of growing between announcement and delivery.
There’s a practical wrinkle worth understanding before writing that deposit check, too. Because the Beast X starts life as a titled Corvette rather than a vehicle Rezvani certifies from scratch, it keeps the donor car’s VIN and factory certification. That’s the legal mechanism that lets small coachbuilders sell heavily modified cars without running their own full NHTSA and EPA certification program. It also means the finished car titles and insures as a modified Corvette, not as a standalone model. Expect any factory powertrain warranty to be voided the moment Rezvani’s turbos and AWD hardware go in, and expect a mainstream insurer to balk at writing a policy anywhere near replacement cost. Owners of cars like this typically end up on an agreed-value policy through a specialty collector-car insurer, with the value set by an independent appraisal rather than a window sticker.
The Beast Lineage
The Beast X isn’t Rezvani’s first attempt at reworking a Corvette, and it isn’t the company’s only extremely limited project this year. The standard Beast, the model that established Rezvani as a legitimate performance shop rather than a body-kit outfit, makes a comparatively modest 1,000 horsepower from the same twin-turbo V8 architecture, sends it only to the rear wheels, and tops out at 20 units, with an optional package that swaps in a smoke screen, EMP-defense hardware, and a thermal night-vision system. Rezvani has been on a limited-run streak elsewhere in its lineup this year, too, first teasing and then confirming an 800-horsepower, Lamborghini Huracan-based Dune off-roader, and separately rolling out an 850-horsepower tactical truck capped at 100 units. Scarcity has become the whole personality of the brand.
For more on those other 2026 projects, see our coverage of the Huracan-based Dune off-roader and the 850-hp tactical truck.
Where This Sits Against Chevrolet’s Own Hot Rods
It’s worth remembering that Chevrolet’s engineers haven’t sat still on the C8 platform either. The factory ZR1X already pushes the Corvette lineup into territory that used to belong to seven-figure hypercars, backed by a factory warranty and a nationwide dealer network. Rezvani’s pitch isn’t that the Beast X is better engineered than what General Motors builds in-house; it almost certainly isn’t, given GM’s development budget and validation resources. The pitch is exclusivity: five examples, a bespoke body no other Corvette owner can buy, and the story that comes with commissioning a car rather than simply ordering one.
Founder Ferris Rezvani has built the company’s identity around that story from the start, tracing the brand’s aviation-themed emblem back to his own childhood ambition of flying fighter jets like his father. Whether that narrative is worth a premium over an already-outrageous factory Corvette is a question only the five eventual buyers will really be able to answer, assuming Rezvani can turn a heavily reworked hybrid AWD platform into something that lives up to the number on the spec sheet.
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