It would seem that reports suggesting that the Aston Martin upcoming One-77 supercar had already been sold out were highly exaggerated. A trusted AM source of CarAdvice has told the Australian publication that orders are still quite open for those willing to put down the £200,000 deposit needed to secure a spot on the queue.

The confusion around this story came from the fact that Aston had over 100 expressions of interest for the car whose production will be limited to only 77. But a lot of those interests have not translated into cold hard cash, hence the discrepancy between these and actual deposit-motivated orders.

At least one of these unique cars will be a right-hand-drive model so countries like the UK, Japan, Australia and South Africa could conceivably see one on their roads as well. The Aston Martin One-77 uses a 7.0-litre engine to produce 700bhp (522kW).

 

No surprise to me, love the car but I can't see Aston having so many big-$£€ clients during these harsh times.

 

It's a neat looking car, but it doesn't look like the automotive art it should be when it costs so damn much. Like Felix, I can't imagine many people would be lining up to shell out that kind of cash for an Aston right now.

Also, I'm sure quite a few DBS owners will be disappointed by the release of this car since their current Halo car won't be quite so special anymore...

 

+1.

I love Aston but so far it looks like the One-77 isn't exactly special enough to justify a Zonda pricetag. And this crisis sure ain't helping.

I wonder how many people actually put down a deposit, I would be very surprised if that number is north of 10.

 

i wouldnt pay so much...thats crazy...

 

There is one confirmed order for my country. The buyer is going to end up paying almost $4.3M US.

 

WOWZER! I know you've mentioned before that your import taxes are like 100% or something(?) but thats just a crazy amount of money for any car really.

 

Nuts!

 

Most of the super high priced super cars have had a tough time selling recently. Bugatti has a warehouse full of Veyrons that they can't give away.

 

Let me disagree with you on Veyron. I have very good sources at Bugatti factory. Bugatti completely sold out all 2009 production run. Only about 15 Veyron coupes are left available as for end on January. 80 Gran Sport Veyrons are sold/reserved as for end of January. I do not call it grim into crisis. Of course there are some orders cancelled, but Bugatti seems to suffer less that other supercar makers.

And completely agree on Aston. There was topic at autocar last November about Aston 77. There were mentioned that there were many expressions of interest, but no money changed hands. I prtsc'ed this article. Here it is: