RE: AM Rapide Shooting Brake revealed

[mikey k]

NGK210 said:

Longest face-palm moment in the world, ever? When Bez and Reichman first saw the Rapide 'Brake: "What were we thinking?? Instead of building a lame, bland, long-wheelbase four-door DB9 that nobody's buying - we should've produced something like this! Call yourself a designer??"

"Call yourself a CEO??"

FFS, put it into production - now! Who cares if, like the existing Rapide, it'll be overweight, thirsty and relatively slow - it looks gorgeous

That's pretty accurate IMHO

[torres del paine]

Gorgeous!... what have you lot been smoking?

That's laughably bad, minging in fact

A lot of badge deference going on here.

[camel_landy]

WOW... Stunning!!

I've not been a fan of the Rapide looks (prefer the Panamera) but that looks fantastic!!

M

[31mph]

Amazing.

If only it had the front end from the pre face-lift version...

[filski666]

hmmmm

[luke111s]

Shaw Tarse said:

This deserves to be more than a one off.

Great looking car Aston, put it into production!

[luke111s]

filski666 said:

hmmmm

This one surely?

[Dr Z]

luke111s said:

This one surely?

Exactly my thoughts! The rear/side view looks like an ugly and squashed FF.

[okie592]

How long is that thing!

[dinkel]

okie592 said:

How long is that thing!

I passed a Rapide one day . . .

[edinph]

Yep, too VW Scirocco for my taste, but gorgeous interior.

[NGK210]

filski666 said:

hmmmm

Chicken and Egg?

Just a hunch, but I reckon messrs Callum and Fisker would argue long and hard that they penned/established the DB9/Vanquish mk1's window outline and rear 'shoulder'-style - which has been carried-over to the Rapide(s) - long before VW's designers started sketching the current Scirocco?

[mcelliott]

Thank god it is only a one off.

[Zad]

To be fair, I think Ford made a better job of the Mondeo estate!

We just need to get them to install a decent transmission and engine now.

[ellisd82]

That doesn't do anything for me. Looks squashed and too long.

[Ceylon]

Jag now have the template for the xf sportbrake mark 2. Thank God...

[menoy]

PunterCam said:

(...)Front has no connection to the side, and that has nothing in common with the rear. (...)

This. Separate sections of it look great - as a whole though, just doesn't seem to work. At least in the pshops

[KingNothing]

That's fking hideous IMO.

[Centurion07]

KingNothing said:

That's fking hideous IMO.

If I had any sharp objects nearby I would have gouged out my eyes upon seeing that monstrosity for the first time. It is a seriously hideous piece of metal.

[dasherdiablo1]

Marmite. Don't think I like it. Would much prefer an FF but I'm sure this will be a bit more affordable. Not sure why but there's something a bit Ford Focus / Vauxhall Astra about it to me.

Edited by dasherdiablo1 on Monday 25th February 21:59