Saturday 23rd April 2016

Aston Vulcan road car kit!

RML will make your Vulcan road legal if desired (plus Aston has made another video of it)

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Some people are never happy. Offer them the wildest, fastest and most track capable Aston Martin ever made, and then they come back asking for it to be road usable as well. To be that rich...

Anyway, a sufficient number of Vulcan owners have expressed interest in using their cars on the public highway that Aston has announced a collaboration with RML to make them road legal. The conversion process will be carried out entirely by RML, and will take three months.

Now you can drive it home too!

Obviously it will need the usual road accoutrements - we can't see any indicators here for example - but there will be other tweaks too. These include "checking the emissions of the engine" and crash test simulation, plus a focus on making the cars more usable with different gear ratios and ride height. Because what's the point in a hugely expensive supercar if you can't cruise around at low speed?

According to Autocar, RML will also accommodate "any other bespoke changes requested by the customer." Place your bets as to just how silly those will be...

Andy Palmer has said there was "hesitation" from a few prospective Vulcan customers when it was announced without a road pack; this RML conversion is expected to be taken up by four or five owners. Lucky people!

As for a price, given the work takes three months on a £1.8m car it will surely be many, many thousands. Still, imagine going for a pint of milk - or any other track car for the road cliche you can think of - in an Aston Vulcan...

Watch the video here.
 

[Source: Autocar]

[jamespink]

If some is good and more is better, then too much is just enough!

[AH33]

Coming to a disabled bay outside harrods soon

[Dale487]

Side exit exhausts = burnt shins for pedestrians & cyclists.

The Vulcan has the best engine noise I've ever heard - hopefully they won't lose it in sanitising it for road use.

[R66STU]

one day I hope I am lucky enough to see a vulcan, and even hear it..

[only1ian]

Was lucky enough to attend the launch for this package in Abu Dhabi on the 30th March. 1.8 million USD and 2 million if you want the on road package. It is an outrageous piece of kit though and that 7 litre v12 engine...

[Dale487]

R66STU said:

one day I hope I am lucky enough to see a vulcan, and even hear it..

Looks like you need to get yourself to Abu Dhabi - as I saw the white one just by chance going out for dinner at the Yas Viceroy Hotel (£1.8m of track only supercar is definitely great after dinner entertainment)

[jakeb]

Stupid, ugly looking, nothing car. Time, effort and money would have been better spent elsewhere by AML

If you want a track car, go by an old DBR9 or 550 GTS. Probably more reliable!

Ducks as he goes up in flames...........

Edited by jakeb on Thursday 21st April 06:50

[Orange Rocket]

R66STU said:

one day I hope I am lucky enough to see a vulcan, and even hear it..

Well if you hang around in Knightsbridge in about 3 months time then your wish may be granted!!

[mclwanB]

Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder- I think these look great. Best AM name in a long time too!

[V8LM]

R66STU said:

one day I hope I am lucky enough to see a vulcan, and even hear it..

The'll be one to see at the AMOC Concours at Duxford IWM on 22nd May, and at Burghley House on July 3rd (event organised by a PHer - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... )

[73RS]

Phew, that's a relief, will get my order in right away......

[ProBodge]

I don't get it...

Buy an epic track specific and track only track car designed only for the track. Track.
Track.

Then.... completely ruin it and make it a horrible road car that will likely be horrendous to drive and unreliable.

Anyway, I'm sure it will be fun.

Especially with the extremely limited steering lock in a car park!

[Dale487]

mclwanB said:

Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder- I think these look great. Best AM name in a long time too!

The best Aston Martin, full stop.

Until I saw & more importantly heard the Vulcan, I never got Aston Martins - good looking, yes, the Bond connection, yes but they always seemed to be old technology, behind the times & just trade on the 2 above (which is enough for some people).

[Talksteer]

jakeb said:

Stupid, ugly looking, nothing car. Time, effort and money would have been better spent elsewhere by AML

If you want a track car, go by an old DBR9 or 550 GTS. Probably more reliable!

Ducks as he goes up in flames...........

I only opened the thread to make the same comment.

For less than the price of the Vulcan you could have not only a DBR9 but one that had actually won races, at a push the one that won at Le-mans.

The DBR-9 is likely to be at least as fast certainly more highly developed and tested, plus you can run it at all sorts of evens and race series and if you bin it there are plenty of parts and people who can fix it.

http://www.jamesedition.com/stories/cars/le-mans-w... $1.5million for the Le-mans winning DB9R, back in 2011 it may be worth more now.

Or for $170,000 a DBRS9 600bhp, 1280kg

http://www.rmsothebys.com/am15/amelia-island/lots/...

[Switch]

I'm just going to leave this here...

[ProBodge]

Switch said:

I'm just going to leave this here...

Yeah that Koenigsegg is incredible...

[skinny]

Of all the things that need to be reworked, indicators!? Not least, because it already has them... They are in the light clusters like on normal cars.

I'd be more concerned by what this thing will look like when it's raised up 6" or without the splitter etc to get over a speed bump. Or how to overcome the huge turning circle....

[JiggyJaggy]

One of our client's is looking to sell theirs as they didn't realise it wasn't road legal/ready, I don't think they have specced it yet but we are trying to convince them to have it made road legal and keep it because by god I want a drive in one of these!