New 1million pound Aston Martin One-77

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As if the brand couldn't get any sicker with the DB-S:

Aston Martin has released the first image of its newest flagship ÔÇô the limited edition One-77. Details are scarce, but the One-77 will be powered by a hand-built 7.0-liter V12 nestled inside an aluminum and carbon fiber chassis. 0-60 times are estimated at 3.5-seconds, with a top speed cresting 200 mph.

77 examples of the £1 million coupe will be produced and customers will be able to customize the bespoke supercar to meet their individual tastes. The One-77 will be revealed later this year (Paris?) and will go on sale shortly afterwards.

This will be the first all-new vehicle from Aston Martin produced after the brand was sold by Ford to a group of investors spearheaded by Prodrive's David Richards. We're also curious to know if the One-77 will play a part in Project Alligator, the rumored collaboration between Aston and Mercedes-Benz. All details will be revealed in due time. Until then let your eyes feast on the only image we have of the upcoming One-77 supercar.

UPDATE: AutoExpress has taken down the story. We don't know why, but something smells fishy.

Pics here:
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And I found an update:

Two new images and more details about the limited edition Aston Martin One-77 have surfaced, providing us with a price, a handful of specs and some new views of the bespoke supercar.

Despite what the original teaser revealed, sources indicate that the One-77 will be packing a naturally aspirated 7.3-liter V12, as opposed to a 7.0-liter unit, putting out 700 hp and 553 lb.-ft. of torque. Power will be channeled through a rear, mid-mounted six-speed automated manual transmission, featuring Auto Shift Manual and Select Shift Manual (ASM/SSM), and controlled by an electro-hydraulic system.

The coupe will be available in left- or right-hand-drive, but seating will be limited to two. The exterior body panels will be made of handcrafted aluminum, while the monocoque body structure will be fashioned from carbon fiber. A deployable rear spoiler, adaptive suspension, carbon ceramic brakes and stability/traction control are all part of the package, and the One-77 is expected to tip the scales at just over 3,300 pounds.

A "Direct Customer Sales Contract" was supposedly leaked to 925.nl, which covers the details in all their fine-print glory, along with the price tag. One of 77 One-77s will set you back £1,050,000, excluding VAT and all the other taxes that go into the purchase. While Aston Martin isn't on the schedule for this week's Paris Motor Show, we're hoping to catch a glimpse of the new coupe in the City of Lights before it goes on sale towards the end of 2009.

$2,000,000 is pretty steep though!!

[HAULN-SS]

Ugly, and expensive. Passsss

[Evan]

car looks pretty good, although Im not a fan of the side strakes and I like the DBS better.
Those pics are renderings, and surprisingly bad ones.

[REED]

I mean, I get it, the DBS/DB9 and V8 Vantage are all very very ptretty cars, this just looks like a bigger version thought, i don't see any originaltiy in it. Those side strakes are a bit much too.

I can find a lot of other cars for less then $2M

[Hunter]

Beautiful car for way too much money, but hey, I don't their target market includes people that justify things by cost.

[Sijray21]

another beautiful Aston Martin in the making and even more unattainable.

i'd like to see better pictures/renderings though.

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They'll be out eventually... I'll update the thread when I get more.

Definitely way too much money, but if you're spending that much on a car money obviously isn't something you're concerned about. I would KILL to have a 700hp naturally aspirated AM. Can you imagine how that thing SOUNDS??

[Kaan]

Some AM drop top was trying to bait me on the highway one day on my way home from work. It had dealer tags on it... I'd still rather have a bike.

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More teaser pics. Stuntin' is a HABIT! I think this car is going to be a stunna in person fellas.

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Aston Martin One-77: The justification's in the details
by Jonny Lieberman - Autoblog

£1.25 million. That's Brit-speak for $1,800,000, give or take. A staggering amount of money. More than a Bugatti Veyron, more than a Lamborghini Reventón. Quite simply the most expensive new car, well, ever. Er, well, it would have been if not for the $2.2 million Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. And for what? Before last night, we would have said nearly two million smackeroos gets you a widened DB9 with a large 7.3-liter V-12. Yes, there will be only seventy-seven hand built Aston Martin One-77s made, but so what? That's just way too much lucre, filthy or otherwise.

Aston Martin was good enough to invite us down to a post-Pebble Beach showing of its new hypercar in the impressive vault room at Los Angeles' Galpin Motors. Curtains circled the display, the car was draped with a cloth and many of the city's wealthiest citizens (most had previously purchased an Aston Martin from Galpin) enjoyed gratis cocktails mit snacks.

Before the covers came off they fired up and then revved the engine. Whoa. This was different. This was something special. The massive motor rapidly climbed through the range not like a normal big-bore V12, but more like an F1 car. Totally impressive. Finally the big Aston was revealed, and you know, it was still a nice looking car, but massively overpriced. And then they popped the hood.

Our jaws hit the floor. This was no ordinary car, let alone ordinary Aston Martin. The first piece of candy that grabs your eyes are the F1-style inboard push-rod activated dampers. Not only do they greatly reduce unsprung weight, but there are adjustments for compression, rebound and another adjuster for the gas bypass reservoir. Pretty nifty. You next notice that the intake manifolds and valve covers are made from carbon fiber. But wait a second, why are the intake manifolds plumbed into the frame?



That's right. Those big vertical slits on either side of the gaping Aston Martin signature catfish grill are actually carbon fiber air inlets that take cold air in through the car's carbon fiber structure and then feed it to the engine. Having a car's frame so intimately tied into the engine is very, very novel. After we wrapped our minds around that, we spotted the ceramic-coated headers made from a fancy aluminum alloy (no one from Aston could remember the name of the material, so let's just assume unobtainium). Gorgeous, and each bundle of white snakes gets reduced down to one of four exhausts. We liked that the four exhaust tips are actually angled down towards the ground, a nice change of pace from the now ubiquitous rear-pointing quad pipes found on supercars (and wannabe supercars) everywhere.



Back to the engine, you also notice an awful lot of McLaren F1-style heat shielding gold foil. In fact, the top of the belly pan (i.e. the bottom of the engine compartment) is entirely covered in gold foil. Real gold, in case you're wondering. The bottom of the hood is also plastered with several swaths of the stuff. So, from top to bottom you get gold, carbon fiber, gold, aluminum then more gold. Pretty impressive. The motor begins life as an aluminum 6.0-liter DBS V12 before being embiggened to 7.3-liters (those present weren't sure if it was through boring and/or stroking). Want more? Legendary Cosworth handles most of the tweaking.



As for power, Aston Martin was a little light on details, but here's what we got out of them. The engine was just dyno'd in England at 740 crank horsepower. That's not the official number, as final tuning hasn't happened, but for a naturally aspirated mill, yowza. As for torque, we couldn't get a straight answer besides the usual British "adequate" refrain, but we did sneak a peak at some documentation sitting off in a corner and it said 553 lb-ft of the stuff. That's as much as a VW twin-turbo TDI V10 ÔÇô the same motor Clarkson used to tow a 747. Keep in mind that this document stated the horsepower at 700, not the 740 hp they just spun on the dyno. For comparison's sake, the 6.5-liter V12 in the Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce makes "just" 487 lb-ft of twist. And the ragingist of all bulls hits 60 mph in 3.0 seconds. Translation: the One-77 is going to be a monster.



Especially as it only weighs 3,308 pounds. How so light? Almost every single structural component is built from magical carbon fiber, including the passenger tub. The doors are aluminum skinned carbon fiber. The roof is carbon fiber and the rest of the body (save the uppy-downy carbon fiber wing) is aluminum. But there's a softer side, too. Specifically the opulent interior, comprised of not just metal and regular leather but very thick hand-stitched saddle-leather inserts. We hope that you all are lucky enough to one day sit in a One-77, just to ogle the door pulls. After crawling over, under and inside the car, in our estimation the Aston Martin One-77 is not only worth every shilling, but it's a future Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Best of Show.

Aston Martin One-77: The justification's in the details &mdash; Autoblog

[JustinG]

i dunno, crazy engineering, but i just cant get with the look of it...

[Evan]

since when is 3300 lbs "so light" ??

[Steve85]

Yeah, they did some neat stuff and although a $2MM car needs to make a visual impact, it looks like someone from Hot Wheels was put on the design team. It's a little too much for me...

And the gold, I think unnecessary and a pretty tacky bling attempt by the engineers...

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Some updated pics of the car

[Mike]

i'd much rather a lesser [and better looking] aston mahhhhtin.

[Evan]

yup. still ugly.

I guess all the vents and crap give it more flash, which is what the rich fucks want to show off their bling anyway.

what is that red car in the background?

[G.Irish]

Yeah I just can't like this car. For 1 million it's not particularly light, not impressively powerful, and not really good looking. I don't even like the Bugatti Veyron, but I'd much sooner spend a million on one of those than this. It seems to me that a million dollar Aston Martin should break new ground in some way. The only statement this car makes to me is 'look at me, I'm rich'. Plenty of other cars do that already.

what is that red car in the background?

Bertone Mantide

[Steve85]

yup. still ugly.

I guess all the vents and crap give it more flash, which is what the rich fucks want to show off their bling anyway.

what is that red car in the background?

2 million dollah Corvette ZR1. Complete rebody and interior too I think. Some Italian company. Because the ZR1 "looks too much like the pedestrian Corvette". Further solidifying your second line.

EDIT Thanks for the name G, couldn't remember. Or didn't want to...

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Videos of the V10 revving and reveal:

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Realistically I would still prefer a DBS over this car, but the one-77 is really designed just to be a rich man's toy. One of those cars that is so rare that it helps the uber rich feel like their penis is bigger. Obviously you could buy or have built a faster car for that much money, but it's the attention to detail and engineering that make that car what it is.