Showing posts with label Aston Martin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aston Martin. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 May 2011

aston martin vanquish

aston martin vanquish

Aston Martin is a car manufacturer known to blend beauty, soul, and power in all of its cars. James Bond loves the line of cars and featured the Aston Martin Vanquish in the 2002 release Die Another Day. If you fell like a spy or a star enjoying the Sin City for a couple of days, Aston Martin Vanquish car rental in Las Vega, Nevada will be one of your top options.
The Aston Martin Vanquish is an evolution of the concept of Project Vantage which was unveiled in the 1999 Detroit Auto Show utilizing a V12 engine. The car was formally launched to the public in 2001.

aston martin vanquish

The Vanquish will meet the demand of your adrenalin rush with a 5.9L V12 engine under its hood that can output a mean 460 horsepower. Count 1 to 5 and it will be zooming from 0 to 60 mph. The top speed of the Vanquish is set at 186 mph.
Since inception and production, the Aston Martin Vanquish became its flagship car. Anyone riding it along the Vegas Strip and going from one night spot to another will win some second glimpses or stares.
The car’s last unit was produced last July 2007. The last car rolling out of the closed down Newport Pagnell was a Vanquish S Ultimate edition that is elegant in black.
The Aston Martin Vanquish was honored in 2008 as the third best car ever that was used in a film production.
The Aston Martin Vanquish fits the profile of stars. After getting reservations for your hotel don’t forget to book with an Aston Martin Vanquish car rental in Las Vegas Nevada. Remember when you go to the Sin City, you will be a star.

aston martin vanquish

aston martin vanquish

aston martin vanquish

aston martin one-77

aston martin one-77

ASTON MARTIN ONE-77 - The one car to rule them all, limited to only 77 lucky Aston Martin customers. This latest concept car which will be the flagship car for Aston Martin is already rumored to be the most expensive production car ever made at $2.3 million beating the previous record holder - the Bugatti Veyron. Aston Martin had shown us a sneak peak of their latest super car earlier this month. It will be powered by a 7.0 liter V12 with the chassis made out of Carbon Fiber and the body handcrafted in Alumunium. Figure 1 shows the image of the super car code-named ONE-77:

So after being teased with this image, I did some sketches based on the semi-side profile shot of the concept car. There were enough data on this angle to figure the side panels but the tricky part was the front end. After highlighting the front end in photoshop, more details were revealed. See Figure 2 below.

Design Notes
The contour of the car as well as all the details like the shape of the windows, the mirrors, the muscular rear fenders and the stretched out front fenders were clear from Aston Martin's preview. The parts that stood out to me was the shape of the headlights. Gone are the typical wide headlights which are now replaced by a narrow, much sleeker shape. As seen on Figure 2, the huge vents in the front bumper is something new from Aston Martin also. This vent is aligned with the vents on the side panels which spans across the front fenders all the way to the the door which replaced the relatively tiny front fender trademark vents found in the previous models. I designed the front nose by combining some design cues found on the current models and putting them all together for a singular design continuity. The iconic grill was also enlarged to properly give homage to the old school Aston Martins. To top it all off, I gave it a high-polished mirror finish to take advantage of the light weight aluminium body panels.

I'm not sure how close my front bumper design will be to the real car but from what I've seen from Aston Martin so far, the ONE-77 should be another handsome car.

aston martin one-77





aston martin one-77

aston martin one-77

aston martin one-77