RE: Aston Rapide Prices Announced
Friday 4th December 2009
Ahead of its release early next year, Aston Martin has announced the pricing for the four-door Rapide. The base price will be £139,950 - nearly twice that of an 'entry-level' Porsche Panamera or Maserati Quattroporte.
As standard the 1.9-tonne Rapide will also come with dual-cast brakes and Aston's Adaptive Damping System, along with a Bang & Olufsen stereo and heated memory seats.
Aston Rapide Prices Announced
Gaydon asks nearly £140k for 'DB9 Saloon' - almost two Panameras
Aston's chairman Ulrich Bez has been going to some lengths to distance the Rapide from its ostensible rivals, arguing that it has a different ethos and is not designed as a rival. The price may now offer a clue as to why.
But for that heavy chunk of change the Gaydon chaps will give you a handmade 6.0-litre V12 with 470bhp and 443 lb ft of torque. Only the flagship Turbo S version of the Panamera beats it, and even then only by 30bhp.
The elegant Rapide will go on sale in around April/May of 2010, and Aston expects to build around 2000 of them in the first year. That is admirably ambitious, but it may run in to some trouble competing against a more powerful Panamera that's a full £40k cheaper even in full 'bells-and-whistles' form.
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Discussion
The price is high,but it looks better than the Panamera,has V12,(almost)everything is standard-doesn't have an option list that can raise the base price by 50 percent like the Porsche-and has all-aloy construction.
Of course it will cost more than the Panamera Turbo S,Quattroporte and Conti,apart from the lack of rear doors the most obvious rival would be Ferrari Scaglietti,not the Panamera
Of course it will cost more than the Panamera Turbo S,Quattroporte and Conti,apart from the lack of rear doors the most obvious rival would be Ferrari Scaglietti,not the Panamera
I find it amusing that people suggest this competes with the Panamera when the Panamera's defenders suggest that it is too haughty to compete with the M5, XFR, E63, RS6 crowd.
The Rapide is in a different league from the Panamera. I nearly said class, but I'm not sure the Panamera has any.
The Rapide is in a different league from the Panamera. I nearly said class, but I'm not sure the Panamera has any.
Aston is a premier designer brand up there with Bentleys and Rollers. It is nothing as crass as the Panamera which occupies the glorified 7-series segment of the market. Porsche used to have a lot of status but now, IMHO, it's more "mainstream".
In this day and age, with a burgeoning population of new and ugly mostrosities trading on the allure of their premium brand badges and past glories, Aston should not only be applauded for producing a beautiful car (hell, not even Ferrari can manage that) but also for not being afraid to charge for style. It's as much a statement as Jimmy Choo shoes or a designer dress and has to be priced to maintain it's exclusivity. If Jimmy Choo shoes were £20 a pair, who would want them?
The man who buys a Panamera and parks it next to a Rapide will be the man wishing his pockets were deeper....assuming he is allowed to park next to the Rapide owner's yacht, of course
- yes, it's that sort of car. It's Katherine Jenkins compared to Susan Boyle.
You can keep your bloaters with their fat bonnets and lantern jaws and you can even keep your ultimate ability as I'm sure the perfiormance of this car will be more than adequate.
In this day and age, with a burgeoning population of new and ugly mostrosities trading on the allure of their premium brand badges and past glories, Aston should not only be applauded for producing a beautiful car (hell, not even Ferrari can manage that) but also for not being afraid to charge for style. It's as much a statement as Jimmy Choo shoes or a designer dress and has to be priced to maintain it's exclusivity. If Jimmy Choo shoes were £20 a pair, who would want them?
The man who buys a Panamera and parks it next to a Rapide will be the man wishing his pockets were deeper....assuming he is allowed to park next to the Rapide owner's yacht, of course
- yes, it's that sort of car. It's Katherine Jenkins compared to Susan Boyle.You can keep your bloaters with their fat bonnets and lantern jaws and you can even keep your ultimate ability as I'm sure the perfiormance of this car will be more than adequate.
LuS1fer said:
Aston is a premier designer brand up there with Bentleys and Rollers. It is nothing as crass as the Panamera which occupies the glorified 7-series segment of the market. Porsche used to have a lot of status but now, IMHO, it's more "mainstream".
In this day and age, with a burgeoning population of new and ugly mostrosities trading on the allure of their premium brand badges and past glories, Aston should not only be applauded for producing a beautiful car (hell, not even Ferrari can manage that) but also for not being afraid to charge for style. It's as much a statement as Jimmy Choo shoes or a designer dress and has to be priced to maintain it's exclusivity. If Jimmy Choo shoes were £20 a pair, who would want them?
The man who buys a Panamera and parks it next to a Rapide will be the man wishing his pockets were deeper....assuming he is allowed to park next to the Rapide owner's yacht, of course - yes, it's that sort of car. It's Katherine Jenkins compared to Susan Boyle.
You can keep your bloaters with their fat bonnets and lantern jaws and you can even keep your ultimate ability as I'm sure the perfiormance of this car will be more than adequate.
I think porsche still has it's status, but it's slowly disappearing.In this day and age, with a burgeoning population of new and ugly mostrosities trading on the allure of their premium brand badges and past glories, Aston should not only be applauded for producing a beautiful car (hell, not even Ferrari can manage that) but also for not being afraid to charge for style. It's as much a statement as Jimmy Choo shoes or a designer dress and has to be priced to maintain it's exclusivity. If Jimmy Choo shoes were £20 a pair, who would want them?
The man who buys a Panamera and parks it next to a Rapide will be the man wishing his pockets were deeper....assuming he is allowed to park next to the Rapide owner's yacht, of course
- yes, it's that sort of car. It's Katherine Jenkins compared to Susan Boyle.You can keep your bloaters with their fat bonnets and lantern jaws and you can even keep your ultimate ability as I'm sure the perfiormance of this car will be more than adequate.
LuS1fer said:
Aston is a premier designer brand up there with Bentleys and Rollers. It is nothing as crass as the Panamera which occupies the glorified 7-series segment of the market. Porsche used to have a lot of status but now, IMHO, it's more "mainstream".
In this day and age, with a burgeoning population of new and ugly mostrosities trading on the allure of their premium brand badges and past glories, Aston should not only be applauded for producing a beautiful car (hell, not even Ferrari can manage that) but also for not being afraid to charge for style. It's as much a statement as Jimmy Choo shoes or a designer dress and has to be priced to maintain it's exclusivity. If Jimmy Choo shoes were £20 a pair, who would want them?
The man who buys a Panamera and parks it next to a Rapide will be the man wishing his pockets were deeper....assuming he is allowed to park next to the Rapide owner's yacht, of course - yes, it's that sort of car. It's Katherine Jenkins compared to Susan Boyle.
You can keep your bloaters with their fat bonnets and lantern jaws and you can even keep your ultimate ability as I'm sure the perfiormance of this car will be more than adequate.
It'll be bought by people who want others to think they have a yacht, not yacht owners. Astons these days are very, very "new money" which is why they've been hit hard by the financial crisisIn this day and age, with a burgeoning population of new and ugly mostrosities trading on the allure of their premium brand badges and past glories, Aston should not only be applauded for producing a beautiful car (hell, not even Ferrari can manage that) but also for not being afraid to charge for style. It's as much a statement as Jimmy Choo shoes or a designer dress and has to be priced to maintain it's exclusivity. If Jimmy Choo shoes were £20 a pair, who would want them?
The man who buys a Panamera and parks it next to a Rapide will be the man wishing his pockets were deeper....assuming he is allowed to park next to the Rapide owner's yacht, of course
- yes, it's that sort of car. It's Katherine Jenkins compared to Susan Boyle.You can keep your bloaters with their fat bonnets and lantern jaws and you can even keep your ultimate ability as I'm sure the perfiormance of this car will be more than adequate.
Looks good but I would have prefered it if they had tweaked the rear end slightly instead of what looks to be a straight copy and paste job. Just getting a bit boring now and I doubt I could tell what it was from behind until I was close enough to read the badge, if I ever got close enough lol.
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