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Rapide, série spéciale "Luxe"

Moi j'aime bien

Aston a écrit : 18/01/2015

Rapide, série spéciale "Luxe"

Il existe une version pas luxe ? genre rapide 'junior' avec sièges en jean ?

Julien a écrit : 19/01/2015

Aston a écrit : 18/01/2015

Rapide, série spéciale "Luxe"

Il existe une version pas luxe ? genre rapide 'junior' avec sièges en jean ?

Peut-être mais je n'en ai alors jamais entendu parlé

HK

Aaaahh si j'avais 100000...

2015 Aston Martin Rapide S Review







Fall through the looking glass, move through the wardrobe, hit each of the buttons inside the Wonkavator, or use the Hogwarts Express destination through the wizard school and there’s Aston Martin’s updated, five-door Rapide S sports vehicle. It’s engineered for the alternative reality where up is left, down is sideways, rabbits wear top hats, and four-door exotic sports cars is the norm.


It’s an upside down universe where practicality is the burden, beauty always trumps convenience, and a 550-hp 5.9-liter V-12 is considered acceptable and ordinary. The vehicle is a pain on the ass, and beautiful for this.





First seen as a idea back in 2006, the Rapide is the uncompromised sculpture. It’s a spectacular sliver of the car, with a windscreen very brutally raked that it’s difficult to discover some expense traffic lights from the driver’s couch, and a fastback roof that would have even Bilbo Baggins ducking to enter from the back doors. But once it entered production back in 2010 plus quickly grew to become sales-proof, the big issue were that it wasn’t fast enough. In Narnia, 470 hp may seem like lots, but in Car and also Driver’s community, that kept the normal old Rapide in back of muggle-spec opponents such as the bulbous Porsche Panamera Turbo S. And also Aston’s claimed 5.0-second zero-to-60-mph efficiency? Today, 5 seconds is enough time to beat Middle-earth.

So Aston has rewritten the Rapide fable using the form of the company’s newest AM11 V-12 that debuted on the new Vanquish. A adjusted block is stuffed with the latest crank and capped by new cylinder heads with variable timing for both the consumption and exhaust cams along with a different “big wing” intake a lot more inhaling via 0.2-inch-larger throttle bodies. The re-machined combustion chambers stream better with a a little bit improved retention rate. All that thumps output nearly 550 hp at a screaming 6750 rpm and 457 pound-feet of top torque on 5000 rpm with, Aston claims, a lot better twisting creation beneath four thousand rpm. There are no turbos, no superchargers, and no dark arts involved.


To face European pedestrian-protection standards, Aston has installed a engine 0.8 inches reduced in its bay?although redesigning forward grille and cover. Throw in LED lighting and 20-inch tires within 245/35ZR-20 front and 295/30ZR-20 rear Bridgestone tires, and this is a car that visually punches its very own Golden Ticket. Which noted, what is still almost unchanged is Aston’s glue- along with rivet-bonded metal space-frame structure, and the rear-mounted six-speed automatic transaxle.









Source: http://www.topautozview.com/2015-aston-martin-rapide-s-review