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Old Oct 2, 2008 | 09:43 AM
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Aston Teases World With One 77 At Paris Show







It's certainly a special car, but is it a) pretty enough and b) worth almost $2 mil? I'm not so sure.
 
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A) Definitely yes, common since when do astons make ugly cars
B) No, I'd rather get a bugatti veyron or many other super cars.
 
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Btw at the official website (one-77.com) it says that the engine will be a 7.3 litre V12, could this be the same engine as in the Zonda? Because there were a lot of rumors some time back that Aston might team up with Mercedes Benz in the future and that Zonda engine starts life at AMG...
 
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Somebody should've run up and pulled the cover off for the press...

From what I can see it does look pretty awesome.
 
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Originally Posted by 4Wheels
Btw at the official website (one-77.com) it says that the engine will be a 7.3 litre V12, could this be the same engine as in the Zonda? Because there were a lot of rumors some time back that Aston might team up with Mercedes Benz in the future and that Zonda engine starts life at AMG...
Maybe that can be possible.
 
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I like what I see so far. The side vents sort of remind me of the Corvette ZR1 though. $2M is a lot of money to shell out for an Aston, but if it has the performance credentials (similar to Veyron) then it might be able to justify it to some degree. I just don't see how this car, no matter how much power it has, can compete with the Veyron for performance. The limits of a front engine, rear wheel drive chassis keep it from ever reaching a top speed anywhere close to that of the Veyron. The frontal area required to fully contain an engine up front basically toss any likelyhood of a 240+ mph top speed.

Still, it's a gorgeous car and has mounds of potential to be something great.
 
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Originally Posted by Alzilla
I like what I see so far. The side vents sort of remind me of the Corvette ZR1 though. $2M is a lot of money to shell out for an Aston, but if it has the performance credentials (similar to Veyron) then it might be able to justify it to some degree. I just don't see how this car, no matter how much power it has, can compete with the Veyron for performance. The limits of a front engine, rear wheel drive chassis keep it from ever reaching a top speed anywhere close to that of the Veyron. The frontal area required to fully contain an engine up front basically toss any likelyhood of a 240+ mph top speed.

Still, it's a gorgeous car and has mounds of potential to be something great.
Oh yeah you can definitel forget about Veyron beating performance, the car (from what I heard) 'only' gets ±700 bhp.
 
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Originally Posted by tractorcrusher
Somebody should've run up and pulled the cover off for the press...
Not that I've done that in the past ...
 
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Can not wait to see the rest of the car, DEF not worth $2 million!!!! or even $1 million
 
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Originally Posted by JonA85
Can not wait to see the rest of the car, DEF not worth $2 million!!!! or even $1 million
99.999% of the world would agree (as do I), but we aren't the target audience.
 



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