'Queen' on the Aston Martin Rapide Road Test

The 4-door coupe by Aston Martin's road has been completely when a test at Nurburgring, Germany. To 2010, Rapide will be available in the market to compete with Porsche Panamera.

When Aston Martin was sold to the Ford Prodrive's Dave Richards hands racing team and investors in 3 / 2007, Rapide project was ordered stopped by the leaders do not believe will succeed.

However, the experiment appeared in Nurburgring, Germany yesterday and this demonstrated, Rapide still "live", contribute to the market segment 4-door coupe are known in home.

The curve is compared to uphold the concept throughout the village since 2006. Engineers Aston Martin's long length base of DB9 to 254 mm, bringing the total length of Rapide mm to 5003 levels, equivalent to the Mercedes S-class. Rapide is 63.5 mm higher than the DB9 to create harmony as the hood is fully extended down the back.

Weight not load at about 1940 kg, weighing more than 130 kg DB9. Rapide so no advantage of speeding up. However, the maximum speed is committed to Aston Martin at 290 km / h. And speed from 0 to 100 km / h in about 4.5 seconds.

Engine from the DB9 is, in the 6 liter V12, the capacity of 480 horsepower. Automatic gearbox 6 zF level sports with equal to the number of buttons by Aston Martin.

Rapide will be expected in the village fair in Frankfurt, Germany took place on 9 or exhibition Los Angeles a few months later. The price is between DB9 and DBS, or about 200,000 USD

Source: Autoweek

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