Mansory Star Trooper Pickup Carbon Kit — Mercedes G-class W463A

MANSORY Star Trooper Pickup — the W463A G-class redrawn as a four-door pickup

The Star Trooper Pickup is the most invasive build Mansory currently catalogues on a G-Class donor. It is not a body kit fitted over an OEM Geländewagen; it is a coachbuilt programme that cuts the OEM rear cabin away behind the second-row B-pillar, extends the ladder frame, fits a re-engineered crew-cab roof with full rear-passenger headroom, and closes the build with a sealed carbon load bed and a Mansory-finish roll-cover. Donor: the post-2018 W463A in G63 AMG trim, M177 4.0-litre V8 biturbo, 585 PS at 6,000 rpm and 850 Nm from 2,500 rpm, AMG SPEEDSHIFT 9G-TRONIC nine-speed automatic. The programme is commission-numbered — every build is documented from donor VIN through to the final paint cure. There is no batch production, and lead time runs from the workshop's body shop in Brand, Bavaria, in months rather than weeks.

The Star Trooper Pickup sits at the apex of Mansory's G-Class catalogue. The non-pickup, closed-body Star Trooper Coupe — the same Mansory × Philipp Plein collaborative visual language on a stock-roof donor — is the Star Trooper Coupe page. The full widebody but non-pickup build on the same chassis is the G-Gronos W463A. The pre-2018 W463 chassis carries its own pickup ancestor in spirit — see the 6x6 Xtreme programme. Sister Mansory SUV builds in the same era as donor: the Maybach GLS X167 and the Rolls-Royce Cullinan.

The cut-and-extend chassis work

The W463A's body-on-frame architecture is what makes a pickup conversion engineering-feasible. Mansory's frame extension splices a custom box-section run forward of the rear axle, increasing the donor wheelbase from 2,890 mm OEM to roughly 3,290 mm in the pickup configuration. The rear axle is repositioned, suspension upper-mount points are re-fabricated in matched geometry, and the OEM independent rear suspension is preserved with its factory springs, dampers and stabiliser bar. The crew-cab roof carries forward of the second-row seats with no reduction in OEM headroom; the second-row bench, OEM Isofix points, dashboard and front-row layout are unchanged. The load bed is fabricated separately from carbon and bonded to the extended frame with rubber-isolating mounts — the bed flexes independently of the cab, retaining OEM NVH.

Body work — full carbon, +60 mm flares, integrated bed

Mansory's pickup programme runs the full Star Trooper visual language across every panel:

• Replacement front bumper with revised intake apertures, integrated splitter and Star Trooper signature lower-corner canard pair. The OEM AMG grille slat pattern is preserved in the carbon frame.
• Vented carbon bonnet with twin functional NACA inlets above the M177 plenum and a centre power-bulge. Lacquered visible weave as the standard Star Trooper finish.
• Bonded fender flares, +60 mm per side (front and rear) — the widest flare set Mansory builds for a G donor. The +60 mm geometry clears the matched 24" forged stagger and the load-bed's full-width line.
• Crew-cab roof panel and B-pillar carbon trim — pickup-specific, dimensioned to the extended cabin geometry, integrated roof rack option for desert-spec commissions.
• Rear cabin closure panel — the structural bulkhead between the second-row seat back and the load bed, in carbon-clad steel.
• Carbon load bed — fabricated as a single unit with bonded floor, integrated tie-down rails, and a sealed wheel-arch box around each rear wheel. Bed length: approximately 1,520 mm; bed width at the floor: 1,420 mm.
• Load-bed roll cover — Mansory-finish folding tonneau in carbon-fibre with electro-hydraulic deployment; replaces the standard textile cover that ships on competitor pickup conversions.
• Replacement rear bumper with full-width carbon diffuser and quad-tip exhaust bezel pair matched to the AMG sport-exhaust outlet count.
• Star Trooper trim pack: mirror caps, kidney-grille frame, A-pillar surrounds, side-step replacements with skull-motif tread inserts, spare-wheel cover delete (no rear-mounted spare; spare lives below the load bed).

Powertrain — M177 V8 biturbo carried over, exhaust-led commission

The Star Trooper Pickup retains the OEM G63 AMG M177 V8 biturbo at 585 PS / 850 Nm stock, with the AMG 9G-TRONIC nine-speed and the OEM permanent four-wheel-drive transfer case. The Mansory Powerbox option lifts the M177 to roughly 700 PS / 950 Nm via a piggyback module on the OEM engine harness — reversible, no ECU mapping changes, paired with the Star Trooper sport exhaust (quad-tip layout, valved muffler, no header swap). The pickup's longer wheelbase shifts the kerb weight by approximately +220 kg over the Coupe Star Trooper (load bed, frame extension and the extended cabin together) — roughly 2,780 kg kerb on the pickup spec versus 2,560 kg on the Coupe. AMG's 9G-TRONIC absorbs the additional mass without re-ratio work; first-to-second-gear pull is softer than on the Coupe but the V8's 850 Nm at 2,500 rpm remains comfortably in front of the donor's mass.

Wheels — 24" forged on PCD 6×130

OEM W463A G63 AMG wheels run at 22" cast on the Mercedes hub geometry. Mansory's pickup catalogue is dimensioned around 24" forged staggered wheels on the OEM 6×130 PCD with 84.1 mm centre bore. Tyre fitment: 305/35 R24 across both axles, with the option of a 325-section shoulder for desert-spec commissions running the matt-finish all-terrain compounds in our catalogue. Patterns: M.7 multi-spoke, FD.16 dual-spoke concave, FV.5 with engraved Mansory monogram on the centre cap, finished in lacquered carbon, satin black, or paint-to-sample matched to the donor body. The +60 mm flare absorbs the 305-section tyre cleanly and the 325-shoulder fitment without further geometry work. Forged catalogue: hodoor.world/collection/forgedwheels. The wheel set carries TÜV documentation against the pickup's roughly 2,780 kg kerb and the additional load capacity of the load bed (rated at approximately 350 kg payload — roughly half the Star Trooper Coupe's full GVW spread).

Cabin — Plein retrim plus pickup-specific load-bed lighting

The Star Trooper Pickup carries the Plein collaboration cabin spec from the Coupe: skull-motif embroidery on the seats and floor mats, gold-stitched piping on the leather panels, Plein-skull console plaque, carbon dashboard inlay with gold-accent strip, sport steering wheel with carbon spoke-back. Pickup-specific additions: load-bed LED lighting in carbon-cased strips along the tie-down rails, controlled from the centre console; an independent climate-controlled stowage box under the load bed (down to -5°C); and a rear-window defogger dimensioned to the crew-cab glass area.

Where the Star Trooper Pickup ships

The Pickup is rarer at the kerb than the Coupe Star Trooper — the crew-cab format reads as a desert-utility-meets-fashion-statement object and the buyer cluster is concentrated. Order distribution out of the workshop:

• The UAE takes the largest single share — Dubai and Abu Dhabi commissions account for roughly half the pickup book, often paired with Saudi Arabia and Qatar commissions on parallel timelines.
• Hong Kong ships a niche but consistent share — the pickup format reads strongly in Asia-financial collector contexts where the donor is a non-daily car.
• Monaco and the wider Riviera corridor close the European share. Northern European commissions are rare; the format does not suit the climate.
• The Tsar programme ships into Moscow-region garages on a long-tail recurring basis; collector commissions only, never daily-driver donors.
• One-off corridors (Bermuda, Isle of Man, Turkey) make up a steady but small annual share.

Lead time, freight, paperwork

Build window from donor delivery to finished pickup: approximately five to seven months; chassis-extension and load-bed fabrication run two months. Plein-finish window adds four to six weeks for the gold-accent paint and the cabin retrim. Freight ships paint-cured on closed-trailer automotive carriers. EU markets re-register the donor as a coachbuilt vehicle (Annex II of Regulation 2018/858); Gulf, Asian and CIS markets register against the donor's original VIN with addendum documentation. Email [email protected] or message WhatsApp +44 7488 818747 with donor VIN, build year and destination market for a landed quote.

FAQ

Will the Pickup conversion fit a non-AMG W463A donor (G500 or G350d)?
The chassis-extension and load-bed fabrication work fits any W463A ladder-frame donor; the Star Trooper visual language and the matched powertrain spec are AMG-only. G500 commissions are rare but accepted — the body kit, fender flares and load bed all transfer; the powerbox does not (M176 V8 has no Mansory module).

Does the pickup retain the G's three locking differentials?
Yes. Front, centre and rear locking differentials are OEM-retained across the build. The dashboard switches transfer; the rear locker still engages on demand. The Mansory frame-extension work does not modify the OEM transfer case or the differential housings.

Load capacity of the bed — can it carry meaningful payload?
Rated at approximately 350 kg. The pickup is not a working vehicle; the load bed is dimensioned to luxury-utility duty (luggage, sport equipment, hunting gear) rather than to commercial freight. Owners who want the format-with-utility commission specify a heavier-duty rear suspension package as an option at order.

Can I commission the Pickup without the Plein cabin retrim?
Yes — the body and chassis work transfers across the catalogue. The non-Plein finish ships with Mansory-house leather and trim spec, no skull-motif embroidery, and the standard Mansory carbon dashboard inlay. The price differential against full Star Trooper Plein spec is documented in the workshop's commission packet.

Is the load-bed roll cover removable?
The roll cover lifts off the bed in approximately twenty minutes — four bonded mounting points on the bed's tie-down rails carry the cover's hinges. Owners who want an open bed for a specific use case remove the cover and replace it with the Mansory soft-textile tonneau as an interim option.

Production cap — is the Pickup numbered?
Mansory has not published a public unit cap. Commissions are numbered from the workshop floor and run sequentially with the Star Trooper Coupe production calendar. Practical scarcity is high — the Pickup is rarer at the kerb than the Coupe by a factor of roughly five to one.

Does the chassis extension affect crashworthiness ratings?
The OEM crashworthiness rating is donor-specific and does not transfer to coachbuilt derivatives. Mansory's frame work retains the OEM front-end crash structure and the second-row passenger cell; rear-end performance is re-validated against the load-bed bulkhead and the extended frame.