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- BuddhaHat0
The 1960 Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato was something of an automotive legend. A lightened DB4, designed by the famed Italian Design house Zagato, only 20 of them were ever produced.
The carmaker, never shy about revisiting their storied history, are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original with the new Vantage V12 Zagato, announced today. Where the original Zagato Astons were dictated heavily by the Italian design group, this new Zagato version is more of a design collaboration with Aston's noted in-house design team.
The results are striking. Zagato has elevated Aston's measured (some could say conservative) supercar design language and added some Italian attitude, resulting in a more aggressive, more sculptural interpretation of the brand and of the collaboration. But the beauty of the V12 Zagato is deeper than its hand-formed aluminum skin. Underneath its all Vantage, including the snarling six-liter V12 putting out 510bhp. This is exceedingly good news—our road test of the Vantage S left us big fans of the platform.
The V12 Zagato will make it's official debut tomorrow at the Villa D'Este Concours, and a race-going version will be debuted at the VLN race at Nürburgring on 28 May 2011. If you want one for your own stable, better call Aston directly; although not officially on sale, the V12 Zagato will be built on a bespoke basis in a "strictly limited" run.
- mydo0
- mydo0
actually i'm kinda anoyed at aston for this. all they've done is taken a standard astons design and change the back a bit. then lowered it and bit some big rims on. at least bmw have gone out of their way to make an inspired design.
come on. man up FFS.
- Benja820
yeah, it looks more Westcoast customs than Aston Martin
- ThePublics0
this thread is embarrassing.
we're all gonna die middle class, none of us will ever have real money, so these petty fantasies are just debasements of our creative ability.
yes, you could spend your days fantasizing about what automobiles you would buy if you ever had real money, which you never will, but, isn't it, on one level or the other, incredibly morbid?
- So I can't appreciate a Van Gogh because I don't have $40 million? Fuck off.BuddhaHat
- bit different, the van gogh was worthless when it was produced.
ThePublics - That's totally irrelevant.BuddhaHat
- lol. how is that irrelevant?ThePublics
- lol sorry im drunk
ThePublics
- BuddhaHat0
I won't argue with the fact they used the Vantage framework, and it looks similar in some ways, but considering the engine that's inside it, it needs to retain its supercar characteristics, otherwise it would handle like shit (TVR Cerbera)
It would be shit-hot to see them do a more classic homage (hommage?) to the db4gt Zagato, but they couldn't put a V12 in it...
- phomic0
- 24 light years to the gallon future city, 35 automatic managed
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- 24 light years to the gallon future city, 35 automatic managed