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this is the Aston Martin Vulcan it is a rare very exclusive track based car we're only making 24 of them it's a hypercar for the track it uses all of the technology that we have spent years and years developing in terms of carbon technologies lightweight materials based on all the racing knowledge that we have 24 very very special units it's a v12 seven liter v12 it's plus 800 horsepower 13 50 kilos in weight it has an extract sequential gearbox mated to a hand-built handmade racing engine built by Aston Martin Racing in partnership with ourselves so really the most incredible car that you'll see on a racetrack and we like to call it the dark art of Aston lot why 24 because we race in 24 hour races and it just happens to be the 24th Bond movie this year as well we definitely won't see Vulcan in the Bond movie but it is the car that will probably get James Bond to take his odds test to go on the track it's very different from any other Aston Martin because we can because we're able to do it different but there are cues and hints at a possible future design direction we wanted something that would be very different to all of the other low-volume rare production cars that we've done as well and the freedom that we're given because it's purely track based and the materials that we really help with that as well it doesn't have a typical Aston Martin grill there are hints of things that we have produced in the past I EDP 100 the car that was in the Gran Turismo gaming and it's there in the real life so you will start to see the slow feed of all of these ideas and Q's coming into our production cars for us that's very very important as well because if you're like DP 100 becomes the test bed in terms of the visual and it's now turning that idea into production albeit only 24 but they will be functioning lights so there's a progression there of that idea and the thought and really it's the deconstruction of the light at the rear it's a single LED element that we can then place in our typical see graphic but to this very very high effect in terms of the kind of warp speed and the light should look as though it's moving through space the freedom that you're allowed because we are purely track based and again the timeframe the materials that we're using really we hid the lamps more than anything on on volcom the lamp is all in shadow so it's a graphic element that sits underneath the shadow the face of the car and it's something that you will start to see more of if you reference db10 you'll see that shark like face there and this is a real predator so it had to have a face that was basically going to pass the car that's in front of it I think the part that I really really enjoy is if you look at the side of the car it doesn't have what we would call a great amount of wedge that's an extreme angle between the front and the rear because it's so low but if you look at the side of the car there is a line that comes off the side stripe that runs into the rear haunch creating this wedge even though the car itself sits very parallel to ground so it's that beautiful playing with in space with shape and form to generate that excitement if everyone else has hybrid then for us this is the pinnacle of naturally aspirated it's the most powerful v12 engine that we've ever produced and I think that's very very important that kind of visceral feeling that you have and it's named Aston Martin Vulcan because there is a very famous plane that we all know that sounds incredible and the sound of the Vulcan when it's driving is absolutely we're building the engine so we can hear they're on the test bed currently and we will start to see moving car with that engine in there sometime around the summer Oh