Aston Martin Rapide Spied On The Road

Aston Martin Rapide spied driving towards production / Copyright AUTOMEDIA
Spied: The recently-revived Aston Martin Rapide / Copyright by Automedia
Spied: The recently-revived Aston Martin Rapide / Copyright by Automedia
Spied: The recently-revived Aston Martin Rapide / Copyright by Automedia
Spied: The recently-revived Aston Martin Rapide / Copyright by Automedia
Spied: The recently-revived Aston Martin Rapide / Copyright by Automedia

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Bristol411S3

IT NO WORK!

January 22, 2008 3:10 pm

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Bristol411S3

I wonder how they'll sort the rear door handles? This image seems to suggest they are keeping the same pop-out front door handles, but there is nothing showing at the rear.

January 22, 2008 3:20 pm

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radmeister

Maybe its a 2.5 door like the RX8 where the back doors are only half and open suicide style once the front door is open.

January 22, 2008 10:10 pm

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dbehmoaras

the rear handles, if they want to succeed with the design, will most likely be hidden where the front and rear doors meet when closed: i'm projecting a suicide door situation where the front door must be open to open and close the rear; this desing is most commonly seen on mid-range double cab pickups like the dakota, vans like the ford e, and cheap hatches/coupes like the sunfire, saturn ion...although found on such cars, does not mean that the design is bad; frankly, (listen up german car makers) that's the best way to pull off the four door coupe--it has to look like a coupe

January 22, 2008 10:12 pm

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ck314

I don't agree with the handles being claoked, and thankfully none of its rivals have fallen for it, simply because the front doors are shorter than those of a 2-door coupÃ©, and hence would look unbalanced. On the RX8 or a pick up it's okay because the rear doors are minuscule but would leave a huge blank gap on these big sleek cars.

January 23, 2008 10:48 pm

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dbehmoaras

i guess that's also valid--the suicide doors are plausible and theyll probably have the door handles in the push out style like on the db9

January 24, 2008 7:49 pm

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desiathate

cant not wait to see the final product ....... i would be so happy if it beats the Bentley Gt i am getting sick of that car and i hope they keep limited production ....... it looks nice so far.

January 22, 2008 3:20 pm

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mojammer

If it's based on a DB9, but bigger, then it should be more expensive. Meaning more than $150K. I doubt that's going to make it a CLS/Quattroporte competitor. It may compete with the S600 and S63 AMG. Panamera? Possibly.

January 22, 2008 3:21 pm

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radmeister

Its not a limousine. The S600 and S63 are about 2ft longer.

January 22, 2008 10:11 pm

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ck314

and way taller

January 23, 2008 10:51 pm

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Same shape as the Db9 and V8 but nice!

January 22, 2008 5:28 pm

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Discover

looks like a long DB9.

January 22, 2008 7:58 pm

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rapide66

I feel they should change the front bumper a bit.

January 22, 2008 10:12 pm

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hofmeyer

i don't know about making the 4 door a hatchback. it seems like a slightly more upright rear window to create more of an illusion of a trunk, even if its a hatch.

January 23, 2008 4:20 am

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I think it's a good combination

January 27, 2008 2:05 pm

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astonmartindb9

great looking car for the family but would you honestly let you children sit in thye car of a car the expensive?

February 19, 2008 1:10 pm

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