Will Show At Geneva-Aston Martin adds Virage to GT line

Will Dhow At Geneva-Aston Martin adds Virage to GT line, Aston Martin alien today its new Virage, a V-12 auto that will fit in its GT band amid the DB9 and DBS. The car’s admission will appear Tuesday at the Geneva Motor Show. Aston Martin says it will allocution about appraisement then, but if it aswell fits amid the DB9 and DBS in price, it will acreage amid $180,000 and $266,000.

What you’ll get for that affectionate of money: An affected and adventurous auto with a front/midmounted V-12 engine that is not a abolitionist abandonment from its siblings. As Aston Martin CEO Ulrich Bez puts it: “100 years of automotive history has approved that change delivers the best solutions in time.”

The hand-built 6.0-liter engine puts out 490 hp. and 420 lbs.- ft of torque, akin to a six-speed automated (how bizarre in this era of manual acceleration inflation) army on the transaxle to advice accumulate a 50:50 weight distribution. It has adaptive damping with 5 settings in accustomed approach and 5 added in sport. And bowl brakes are allotment of the amalgamation as well. There as well a “sport” button on the birr that provides added advancing burke and manual settings.

Infotainment includes Garmin-based HD aeronautics and a 700-watt audio system, says Aston Martin. But the aggregation offered appropriate agenda in its advertisement for the covering upholstery. Not back Ricardo Montalban accept we heard car covering so acquiescently praised:

As drivers and cartage accessible the signature swan addition doors, they are greeted by the balm of seven hides of the finest Bridge of Weir covering expertly hand-stitched by craftsmen. Inspiration has been taken from affluence covering appurtenances to aftermath a pinstripe bruise which flows down either ancillary of the fascia and forth the bench and door, cartoon your eye through the car. Each Virage will accept 70 man-hours of able adroitness lavished on the autogenous abandoned to actualize the acclaimed adult Aston Martin interior.

Aston Martin’s Geneva presentation aswell will cover two added new cars, the V-8 Vantage S and the new Tailor-Fit Cygnet city-limits car (based on the Toyota iQ), which aswell activate assembly this year.