2014 Aston Martin Rapide S - Car and Driver
While other four-doors are sober and serene, the sexy Rapide S is flat-out berserk. every trip in the Rapide is a red-carpet event. Instrumented Test — 2014 Aston Martin Rapide S Fall through the looking glass, pass through the wardrobe, hit all the buttons in the Wonkavator, or take the Hogwarts Express one stop past the wizard school and there’s Aston Martin’s updated,... It’s engineered for an alternate reality where up is left, down is sideways, rabbits wear top hats, and four-door exotic sports cars are the norm. The car is a pain in the ass, and wonderful for it. First seen as a concept back in 2006 , the Rapide is an uncompromised sculpture. It’s a dramatic sliver of a car, with a windshield so brutally raked that it’s impossible to see some overhead traffic lights from the driver’s seat, and a fastback roof that would have even Bilbo Baggins ducking to get in through the rear doors. In Narnia, 470 horsepower may seem like a lot, but in Car and Driver ’s world, that left the regular old Rapide behind muggle-spec competitors like the bulbous Porsche Panamera Turbo S. And Aston’s claimed 5. 0-second zero-to-60-mph performance. So Aston has rewritten the Rapide fable with the version of the. Source: www.caranddriver.com
