On Tuesday company Aston Martin has officially presented the new model – four-door coupe Rapide which is created on motives of the conceptual car with the same name for the first time shown three years ago on motor show in Detroit. Judging by the first photo, the serial car does not differ almost from a prototype: the rear bumper only has slightly changed, and also additional lateral air intakes in a front part of a body have disappeared.
As it was informed earlier, five-metre Rapide is constructed on the platform of model DB9 extended on 255 millimetres and it is equipped six-litre 12 cylinders motor capacity of 470 horsepowers (600 Nanometers) which is aggregated from six-high-speed automatic transmission Touchtronic with possibility of a manual gear shift. The official information on dynamic characteristics Aston Martin Rapide while is not present, however it is supposed that to "hundred" car will be dispersed for 4,5 seconds, and its maximum speed will make 290 kilometres per hour. Novelty manufacture at the Austrian enterprise of company Magna Steyr will begin already during the current year, and the first commodity copies will appear in interiors of dealers in 2010. According to some information, cost of base version Rapide in Great Britain will make about 140 thousand pounds sterling.
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