From Aston Martin announced that the price of its new Rapide model in Britain will start from 139 950 pounds and in parallel, spread a lot of new pictures of the car. The first deliveries of Aston Martin Rapide is scheduled for early in the second quarter of 2010th by the end of that year will be produced 2 000 copies of the car. Rapide will be the first model of Aston Martin, which will be produced in the factory of the company in the UK and in the Austrian factory Magna Steyr, located in Graz. Elaboration of a single copy will take about 220 hours of human labor. We remind you that the Aston Martin Rapide made its debut at the exhibition in Frankfurt in September. The car uses so-called Platform V / H Architectur, which is the same as the models Vantage, DB9 and DBS. Rapide is equipped with 6.0-liter V12 engine with a power 470 h.p. and a maximum torque of 600 Nm which is combined with six-speed automatic transmission Touchtronic 2, with the possibility of switching gears from behind the steering wheel controls.
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