Aston Martin Releases The Pricing On Their Four-Door Rapide

Minor Changes & Pricing | Dean | December 7, 2009 at 02:08

Aston Martin’s Rapide will go on sale for £139,950 in the UK. The new Rapide will be produced by Magna Steyr in Austria where it will feature new technologies, four doors and four seats. The overall time to build a single Rapide is said to be about 220-man hours.

There will be roughly 2,000 Rapides build in 2010, where each of them will use a 6.0-litre V12 engine with 470-horsepower and 600Nm of torque. The 0-100km/h time is said to be about 5.1 seconds, while the top speed will be set at about 300km/h.

Deliveries will start in April, 2010.

Press Release

As the eagerly awaited Aston Martin Rapide four-door sports car goes through final engineering and testing phases before being launched in quarter one 2010, Aston Martin confirms UK pricing.

The price of the Rapide will start from £139,950 in the UK which features an impressive level of standard specification including: Bang & Olufsen Beosound audio system tailored specifically for Rapide, heated memory seats, dual cast brakes and Adaptive Damping System.

The Rapide is Aston Martin’s first production four-door sports car encapsulating the practicality of a car with extra doors and fusing it with the trademark sports car dynamics synonymous with modern Aston Martins.

Customer deliveries will commence at the beginning of quarter two 2010, and it will be the first sports car to be hand-built at the Aston Martin Rapide Plant in Graz, Austria. The new 17,000 m2 building has been designed to reflect the quality levels established in Gaydon since 2003 permitting the fusion of modern technology, advanced manufacturing processes and hand-built craftsmanship. Each Rapide will take approximately 220 man hours to build and will benefit from timeless craft skills just like the existing range; DBS, DB9, V12 and V8 Vantage do at Gaydon.

It is anticipated that +/- 2000 Rapides will be built in the first year attracting a high proportion of new customers to the brand. Core to this trend is the mix of huge attention to detail throughout the car, ample accommodation for up to four adults and the spacious boot (317 litres with seats up, and 886 litres with seats down) while maintaining Rapide’s elegant beauty and sports car profile.

The Rapide is on sale now available to order from the Aston Martin dealership network around the world.