Another set of Aston Martin Rapide images revealed

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Back in December Aston revealed two official renderings of the Rapide. Then few days later we showed you spy shots of the lightly camouflaged Rapide out in the wild.

Now we have more images with some new details. According to Autocar power will come from the 480-hp, 6.0-liter V12 that is mated to a ZF six-speed automatic transmission with Aston’s Touchtronic manual shifting controls.

As Rapide shares the architecture with the DB9 changes were done to the wheelbase, which is stretched 10 inches (25.4 cm), also the roofline is raised 2.5 inches (6.35 cm) for more headroom for the rear-seat passengers.

Overall length is somewhere around 16.5 feet (5 meters), which puts it to the same category as Mercedes-Benz S-Class and Audi A8/S8.

Aston Martin Rapide is expected to accelerate from 0-60 mph (0-96 km/h) in around 4.5 seconds, while the top speed is over 180 mph (290 km/h) and will likely cost somewhere around $200,000 (156,000 Euros).

No information yet whether Aston will introduce the Rapide at the Geneva Motor Show in March, so far we have got information that Aston plans to introduce there two models: DBS Volante (open top DBS) and V12 Vantage. Stay tuned for more details right here!

via: WOT