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The Aston Martin Rapide is really a five-door, high-performance sport saloon, which British luxury marque Aston Martin introduced at the begining of 2010. It was initially presented like a concept vehicle in the United States Worldwide Auto Show in 2006. The Rapide title is really a mention of the the Lagonda Rapide, a saloon vehicle created by Lagonda, now a part of Aston Martin. The vehicle is dependant on an Aston Martin DB9. The bottom cost for that Aston Martin Rapide is $199,950 (USD) and also the first cars were folded in May 2010.

Production by sub-contractor Magna Steyr will finish in the center of 2012, six years sooner than expected. Manufacture of the vehicle was stopped temporarily in May 2011. To complement output to sales, Aston Martin needs to cut annual production from 2,000 to at least one,250 in June 2011.

The Rapide is made in a devoted plant in the Magna Steyr facility in Graz, Austria. Production started this year and also the factory intends to build 2,000 each year. The idea vehicle version featured a complete-length glass roof and Brought light bars around the rear finish, two firsts for Aston Martin. The glass roof wasn't transported right through to production.

Specifications:
    Unit cost: $199,950 (USD)
    Engine: 6. L V12
    Energy: 470 bhp (350 kW 477 PS)
    Torque: 443 lbf·ft (601 N·m)
    Transmission: Six-speed Touchtronic
    Drivetrain: RWD
    100 km/h (62 miles per hour): 5.3 seconds
    60 miles per hour (97 km/h): 5. seconds
    Top speed: 188.5 miles per hour (303 km/h)

It's the spiritual successor towards the Aston Martin Lagonda, the business's previous four-door saloon, that was stopped in 1989 - 21 years prior to the Rapide's launch.

For luxury and convenience, the Rapide's standard features incorporate a tilt-telescoping controls, bi-xenon headlamps and Brought taillamps. Leather and walnut trim are standard, with metallic accents energy front seats with memory, air conditioning Bluetooth satellite radio (US version only) and USB and ipod device connectivity. The Rapide comes, as standard, in an instant & Olufsen 16 speaker audio system with two that rise in the dashboard on activation from the system. The development version from the Rapide was proven in the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show.

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Let us condition in advance the 2010 Aston Martin Rapide isn't, to the understanding, unsafe by any means, shape or form. But guy, oh guy, could it be sexy enough to create us overlook each and every bad factor about this. That, or enter an uncovered manhole cover while looking in internet marketing. Anyhow, "irresistible desire" and "compromising situations" are this British superstar's raison d'etre. Philip Marlowe would eat his fedora only for a ride. Fortunately, we needed to perform no such theatrics: Aston Martin simply let's borrow their vehicle.

Calling the all-new Rapide beautiful is similar to saying water is wet. Its allure is really instantly apparent, so fist-bitingly apparent that the thing is moot. Still, before the vehicle was parked during my front yard, precisely how pretty (fine, stunning) wasn't obvious. Much more traffic other cars seem like fridges and automatic washers. When parked it's just like a Rodin on four wheels. The Rapide, then, is yet another situation, and possibly the best situation, of images not carrying out a vehicle justice. This isn't meant like a slight against our ace digital photographer Came Phillips, who did a bang-up job taking the Rapide on digital film. It is simply that after compressed lower to simply two dimensions, most of the achingly gorgeous curves are flattened out. As a result, I spent possibly half an hour looking at only the Aston's curvaceous front fender. Throughout that point I'd no ideas of other things.

Nor must i have. Many commentators happen to be bemoaning the downward slide of vehicle design since Federal rules mandated five-miles per hour bumpers and side marker lights. For a lot of reasons too varied to get involved with here, they are right. The Rapide, however, is really a in a major way, major groundswell of the exception. Everyone was preventing us in the pub to guffaw. Throughout the photoshoot, deep in Santa Clarita's meth country, a patrol vehicle with a set of officials rolled away to hassle us.

After "Bad Cop" asked us and checked our IDs, "Good Cop" leaped from the Crown Vic, stating, "I can not go anymoreInch and started nipping their own apple iphone shots from the Rapide. This vehicle is beyond lovely so comely actually that its defects (but yet, you will find defects) are rapidly - otherwise instantly - pardoned by all of the blindest and many visually dead. As a result, we are likely to structure this review as something of the Choose Your Personal Adventure. If, like many, we figure, you do not worry about the way the vehicle drives, its interior or the small stuff and therefore are only thinking about the Rapide's luscious shape, skip on ahead towards the finish. For that relaxation individuals I-dotters and T-crossers, let's begin

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