Gadgetory

this is the Aston Martin Rapide s it's both beautiful and something to be feared not only does it have looks to kill but the power to scare the living hell out of anything it comes up against and it seats four people which leads us to ask does having four doors and for proper seats make it any less a sports car the Rapide s is the second generation rapide which itself was an answer to a unique problem that many faced in the noughties you see buyers wanted a high-end car like an Aston or a Bentley or a Porsche but they wanted to fit actual adults in the back they wanted more space but they didn't want to buy the card the jaw a Range Rover Aston released the repeat of the 2009 geneva motor show and it was something of a looker and they'd be 9 with a couple of extra doors and devastating aston looks a 470 horsepower v12 gave it the go it deserved as well and all of a sudden Aston had a solution to people that wanted something bigger but didn't want to buy a range now Astin's added an s badge which is asked annie's for made faster it's got new traction control settings and you face which Apes a basking shark and the new power output 550 brake horsepower and you talk big insane 427 pound foot that's quite a bit a means nor 262 happens in 4.9 seconds and it'll hit 190 miles an hour if you committed its engine else it's lower in the engine bay as well better center of gravity means a better drive so that's a good thing after has formed when it comes to four doors remember the Lagonda saloon well the first generation came out in the mid seventeen you probably didn't know about that one it was a stunning food or take on the v8 of the time sadly though only seven were ever made then a gun that you know about came out shortly afterwards and that was a hugely ambitious car it had an LED dashboard pads and what have you it lasted all the way to 1990 and over his time a few special editions came about tickford did a few a company called ruse engineering in switzerland made a shooting brake in 1998 and there was even a series for converted to a two-door called interestingly repeat however it won't go down as one of the world's great though the electrics were incredibly complicated the budget to make them well match the budget to make the entire car no mean feat and because they were made in England in the 70s they constantly failed they were awful and then there's the look it was stylistically interesting and often populates top ten top twenty top 50 lists of the world's ugliest cars oh dear the repeats name repeat also comes from Astin's heritage is named after nineteen sixty ones llegando rapide hastens owner David Brown had bought lagonda in the 40s and wanted to revive the brand it had an engine that would later wind up in the Aston Martin db5 it was made to order and only 55 were ever produced a shame because he was beautiful so it's a thoroughly modern Aston then and it's got a decent heritage to boot but as i said earlier not only is it beautiful other road users should fear it because with all that power and Astin's know how it's gotta be pretty special right well it is this is a heavy car it weighs just shy of two tons and you do feel it when you're driving but steering is just lovely as is the throttle response it just goes it picks up it understands you wants an angry shout egt car and then you can use the paddles to shift gears as when you please and then well if you're in the right gear at the right time the engine just sings it makes beautiful beautiful noise there's something about an Aston v12 they just get it right it comes on song not the very top of the rev range but about in the middle the exploitable bit so you can have your thrills overtake and still stay within the legal speed limit if you want to that's some clever thinking because it's quite big quite heavy but incredibly well planted it's not one to really go for it so you have to be really pushing it to exploit that or you could turn everything off yeah they let you turn everything because they want you to have fun because they know that this car isn't only up against things like s glasses or Range Rovers this is up against 911s bentley continental GT is hell its own cars so is it the perfect car for the driver who doesn't want to lose a sports car if they have children is it the sports car saloon crossover that aston martin says et's yes it is yeah it's a bit tricky to get in the back if you're a grown-up but once you're in there you get to experience full Aston Martin luxury which is no bad thing at all so other road users should fear it because not only is it beautiful but it's devastating in its execution you