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Fall from the looking glass, go through the wardrobe, hit all the buttons in the Wonkavator, or take the Hogwarts Express destination past the wizard school and also there’s Aston Martin’s updated, five-door Rapide S sports vehicle. It’s engineered on an alternate fact where up is left, down is sideways, rabbits use top hats, and four-door exotic sports cars are the tradition.

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

First seen as a concept back in 2006, the Rapide is an uncompromised sculpture. It’s a spectacular sliver of a vehicle, using a windscreen so extremely raked that it’s difficult to find out a few overhead traffic lights from your driver’s seat, along with a fastback roof that could have even Bilbo Baggins ducking to enter from the back doors. But once it entered creation back to 2010 and quickly grew to become sales-proof, the large issue were that it wasn’t quick enough. In Narnia, 470 hp may seem like a lot, but in Car and also Driver’s world, which kept the normal ancient Rapide in back of muggle-spec opponents such as the bulbous Porsche Panamera Turbo S. And Aston’s said 5.0-second zero-to-60-mph efficiency? Today, five secs is enough period to beat Middle-earth.

Therefore Aston has rewritten a Rapide fable with the version of a company’s latest AM11 V-12 that debuted on the latest Vanquish. The adjusted block is stuffed with a new crank and capped by new cylinder heads with varied timing for both the consumption and also exhaust cams and a new “big wing” consumption manifold sucking in through 0.2-inch-larger throttle bodies. A re-machined burning chambers flow better with a slightly improved pressure proportion. All that thumps output around 550 horsepower at a screaming 6750 rpm and 457 pound-feet of peak torque on 5000 rpm with, Aston asserts, a lot better twisting production under 4000 revoltions per minute. There are no turbos, no superchargers, and no dark arts involved.

To face European pedestrian-protection standards, Aston has installed the engine 0.8 inches reduced in its bay?while redecorating forward grille and cover. Toss in LED lighting and 20-inch wheels inside 245/35ZR-20 front along with 295/30ZR-20 back Bridgestone tires, and this is a vehicle which visually blows its own Golden Ticket. That noted, which remains almost the same is Aston’s glue- along with rivet-bonded aluminum space-frame structures, and the rear-mounted six-speed automated transaxle.

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