Aston Martin revealed this weekend the first working concept of its £1 million One-77 supercar to the world today. The covers were pulled off the concept at the exclusive Concorso d’Eleganza show in Italy 24 -26th April.
This marks the first time the new Aston Martin has been seen in public. Aston Martin describes the show car as a fully-complete concept. Billed by Aston Martin as the ‘definitive sports car’, there is no denying it’s dramatic. It’s an Aston Martin on steroids, with impossibly pumped bodywork and taut, bulging wheel arches.
It’s also ultra-exclusive. The immense price tag will be for a very lucky few. Indeed, just 77 of them. And it will be fully customizable to suit their needs.
In showing the very first complete car, Dr. Ulrich Bez, Aston’s CEO, says Aston Martin is demonstrating “new benchmarks in many different fields of automotive design. The craftsmanship and design that has gone into the creation of the Aston Martin One-77 lifts automotive engineering into the realm of art. It surpasses any Aston Martin that has gone before it. With its finely sculpted forms and sleek lines, it is an expression of unparalleled beauty that embodies everything Aston Martin stands for,” said Bez.
Aston Martin’s European operations chief Marcel Beci revealed earlier this month to AutoTelegraaf that the first One-77 customer car will roll out of the company’s Gaydon factory later this year and that the limited production run of just 77 cars will be complete by the end of 2010.
Beci also explained that Aston Martin keeps in close contact with all its One-77 customers, and that every effort is being made to ensure the car does not fall prey to resellers who may attempt to profit from it.
The structural core of the One-77 is a lightweight and immensely rigid carbon-fiber monocoque. Conceived and designed at Aston Martin’s Gaydon HQ, the monocoque, or ‘tub’, has been built in partnership with Multimatic (MTC) – a world leader in carbon composite technology.
Underlining the truly bespoke nature of the One-77, the car’s suspension characteristics will be precisely set-up by Aston Martin engineers to suit the owner’s exact requirements.
The One-77’s power unit is an extreme evolution of the 6.0L V12 engines fitted to the DBS, DB9 and new V12 Vantage models. The brief for engine team was to take the 6.0L V12 as far as it could go, both in terms of output and weight reduction. The targets were a power output of no less than 700hp (522kW) with a 10% reduction in engine mass. Incredibly, the Aston Martin and Cosworth engineers who worked on the powertrain achieved a mass reduction of some 25% while increasing displacement to 7.3L.
Wearing Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires developed specifically for it, all 700hp is transmitted to the rear wheels via a new six-speed gearbox. Controlled via column-mounted paddles behind the steering wheel, this robotised sequential manual is a new generation of Aston Martin’s familiar automatic.
Braking power comes from a set of carbon-ceramic discs and up-rated calipers designed to transmit less heat from the brake pads into the brake fluid.
Top speed is projected to be in excess of 200mph, and doing 0-60 in 3.5 sec.
With its finely sculpted forms and sleek lines, it is an expression of unparalleled beauty that embodies everything Aston Martin stands for.
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i like this one!
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