Cars 21 Car Advice » Aston Martin http://www.cars21.co.uk New Car Reviews and Car Buying Guide Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:48:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Aston Martin Rapide http://www.cars21.co.uk/aston-martin-rapide/ http://www.cars21.co.uk/aston-martin-rapide/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:54:14 +0000 cars21 http://www.cars21.co.uk/?p=139 This is Aston Martins new 4 door coupe that is set to rock Bentley’s boat. Keeping the same shape as all the other recent Aston martins with the huge front grill and the lovely tapered rear.
The Rapide will go into the same market place as Porsches Panamera when its released and Bentleys Flying Spur which are all four door supercoupes.

It will have the same engine 6 litre engine that is in the Aston Martin DB9 which produces 470BHP pushing it to 60MPH in under 5 seconds. The car will use the same basic chassis as the DB( only it will be slightly extended, The Rapide is built in Aston Martins new Magna Steyr factory in Austria.

Expected prices are to start at £100,000 and should be ready for delivery 2010

Aston Martin Rapide

Aston Martin Rapide

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