Fall from the looking glass, move through the wardrobe, hit all the buttons on the Wonkavator, or take the Hogwarts Express one stop through the wizard school and there’s Aston Martin’s updated, five-door Rapide S sports vehicle. It’s engineered with an alternative reality where up is left, down is sideways, rabbits wear top hats, and four-door exotic sports cars is the tradition.
It’s an inverted universe where practicality is the burden, beauty always trumps convenience, plus a 550-hp 5.9-liter V-12 is considered reasonable and ordinary. The vehicle is a pain on the ass, and wonderful for it.
First viewed as a idea back in 2006, the Rapide is the uncompromised sculpture. It’s a dramatic sliver of the car, having a windscreen very brutally raked that it’s impossible to discover a few expense traffic lights from your driver’s couch, and a fastback roof top that will have even Bilbo Baggins ducking to enter through the back doors. But when it got into creation back to 2010 and quickly grew to become sales-proof, the large issue were that it wasn’t quick enough. In Narnia, 470 hp might appear to be a lot, but in Car and Driver’s community, which kept the regular old Rapide in back of muggle-spec competitors such as the bulbous Porsche Panamera Turbo S. And also Aston’s claimed 5.0-second zero-to-60-mph efficiency? Nowadays, five seconds is enough period to beat Middle-earth.
So Aston has rewritten a Rapide fable using the version of the company’s current AM11 V-12 which debuted in the new Vanquish. The revised block is full of the latest crank plus capped by new cylinder heads together with variable timing on both that intake and exhaust cams and a latest “big wing” intake a lot more inhaling through 0.2-inch-larger accelerator bodies. The re-machined combustion spaces circulate improved with a a little bit elevated pressure percentage. All that thumps output nearly 550 hp in the screaming 6750 revoltions per minute and 457 pound-feet of top torque on 5000 rpm with, Aston asserts, significantly better torque manufacturing under four thousand revoltions per minute. There are no turbos, no superchargers, and no dark arts involved.
To deal with European pedestrian-protection standards, Aston has mounted the engine 0.8 inch reduced in its bay?while redesigning the front grille and hood. Throw in LED lamps and 20-inch wheels within 245/35ZR-20 front along with 295/30ZR-20 rear Bridgestone tires, and this is a vehicle which visually blows its own Golden Ticket. Which noted, what is still essentially unchanged is Aston’s glue- and rivet-bonded metal space-frame architecture, and the rear-mounted six-speed automatic transaxle.
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