From a Super sports car (Super? Car) According to the manufacturer's model, people usually pay attention to brands such as Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche. The market volume of single-person sports car brands has been suppressed.
Especially brands like Britain, because besides performance, they also care about mood, which is more like a clean stream.
V 12Speedster is limited to 88 vehicles.
However, as long as you pay attention to the British super-running brand, you will find that Aston Martin is actually a special existence. It often challenges the "cattle and horses" and even the local McLaren.
For example, Ferrari introduced SP 1, Lamborghini introduced AventadorJ, and after McLaren introduced Elva, Aston Martin immediately took out V 12? Speedster responded and expressed his existence.
Facing the radicalization of SP 1 and Elva, Aston Martin not only produced its own flagship powertrain-a 5.2-liter V 12 twin-turbo engine based on Mercedes -AMG technology (with a maximum power of 700Ps and a maximum torque of 753Nm), but also sold 88 V 12Speedster in limited quantities, each with a price of 765,000.
V 12？ Speedster may not be the strongest in the field of HyperCar, but it must be the most temperament. Its two-seat cockpit has no roof, and it needs to wear a helmet to keep out the wind in full open mode. Moreover, the interior design is said to have some elements from F/A- 18 Bumblebee fighter.
In addition, although the maximum power reaches 700Ps and an 8-speed automatic gearbox matched with ZF is used, it still takes 3.5 seconds to accelerate from 0- 100km/h, and the maximum speed is limited to 300 km/h. So, this flagship power supply is used in DB 1 1? AMR and DBS? Superleggera is better.
But for V 12? Speedster, the official statement of aston martin actually points to a historical event-a tribute to 1959 for winning the DBR 1 and CC 100Speedster centennial concept car in Le Mans. Even if it is full of gunpowder, the British always have their own way of humor.
Valkyria was launched, but WEC competition was abandoned.
But in V 12? Besides Speedster, Valkyrie is the most noteworthy new car of Aston Martin at present.
This new car continues the tradition that Aston Martin's car names like to start with V, such as Vantage, Vanquish and Volante, including the aforementioned V 12? Speeders and this Valkyrie.
Valkyrie in the Road Test in 2020
In fact, we can call this car "Valkyrie", because the name actually comes from the general name of battlefield Valkyria in Nordic mythology. In another sense, the so-called Valkyria is actually an equal sign with war, army and power. Therefore, there is no doubt that maston Martin Valkyrie is also a new car full of fighting spirit.
As for the emergence of Valkyrie, it can be said that it has experienced many difficulties.
20 16 AM-RB？ 00 1 concept car
This car was first introduced in 20 16, and the model is AM-RB00 1 concept car, which is Aston Martin and Red Bull (Red? Bull) Hyper jointly developed by F 1 team? Cars, by Red Bull Chief Technology Officer Adrian Newey (Adrian? Newey) defined aerodynamics, and then Martin's chief creative officer MarekReichman led the team to transform the solution that can be mass-produced.
Then in 20 17, the prototype of Valkyrie was launched, which was more like a concept car than the version a year ago. At the 20 18 Geneva motor show, Aston Martin introduced a special version of the car-Valkyrie? Is AMR Pro-Hybrid Hyper suitable for track driving? Cars.
20 17 Valkyrie prototype
In fact, for this car, Martin also revealed the plan to limit the production of 25 cars. The business secret behind it is that the British want to use this car to participate in the WEC World Endurance Championship in 2020. It is necessary not only to break Toyota's monopoly, but also to challenge back's Peugeot team in the game.
Then, in 20 19, Aston Martin officially launched the prototype of Valkyrie, and recently, the chief test driver of Aston Martin, Chris Goodwin (Chris? Goodwin) conducted the first road test on the public road near Silverstone.
At present, Martin has confirmed that this Valkyrie will be put into mass production, and the delivery plan for 2020 has not changed because of COVID-19's global influence. And this car, Martin finally declared that the road version is limited to 150, and the track version is 25.
Unfortunately, in order to return to the field of F 1 racing, Aston Martin's previously announced WEC competition plan was completely ruined.
20 18 Valkyrie? AMR？ agree with
In fact, on the one hand, the abandonment of WEC stems from the financial difficulties of F 1 and WEC dual-track operation; On the other hand, pressure from shareholders.
Because the owner of the running team, Lawrence Straahl (Lawrence? Stroll) and its consortium acquired the shares of Aston Martin 16.7% at the transaction price of1820,000, thus becoming the largest shareholder and executive chairman of Martin.
That is to say, starting from the 202 1 F 1 season, the previous competition team will be renamed Aston Martin F 1, and the term of this entry agreement is as long as 10 years. In other words, in 10, Aston Martin is unlikely to hit the hunaudieres straight (Le Mans sprint straight).
20 19 Valkyrie prototype
However, as far as Valkyrie is concerned, there are many bright spots in the technical part that deserve attention. For example, its power system is a 6.5-liter V 12 naturally aspirated gasoline engine, combined with KERS kinetic energy recovery system-a typical F 1 reserve technology.
This hybrid system was jointly developed by aston martin and Cosworth, England, with a cumulative maximum power of 1 176hp, and its f 1 racing engine will also be jointly developed with Cosworth.
At the same time, it is worth noting that even if Valkyrie does not use turbocharging, its emissions have reached the level of Euro 6d.
According to the information collected by the British media, this car can produce more than 1800kg downforce at the top speed. In other words, although Valkyrie is a racing car, it pays attention to both environmental protection and technical concepts.
Bulldog 40 years ago
Compared with Valkyrie today, bulldogs are less well known. This is a aston martin that doesn't start with a V, but as a concept car, it shows aston martin's pursuit of speed in the early 1980s-this car can run to the highest speed of 322km/h, which was a feat in that year and also the ancestor of Valkyrie.
1980 bulldog concept car
The bulldog was designed on 1979 and officially launched on March 27th, 1980. According to aston martin's original plan, after mass production, 25 bulldogs will be sold in limited quantities-this is a figure that aston martin Limited Manufacturing likes.
But it's a pity that the bulldog only has this unique concept car in the end, and it's still LHD (left? Hands? Drive) left rudder arrangement.
In the history of European automobile design, it is not difficult to find that Martin's bulldog is highly similar to Ferrari's1970moduo, Lancia Stratos and Lotus Esprit.
In order to compress the car height as much as possible and ensure the wind resistance coefficient of 0.34, the car height of the bulldog is only 1.09m ... The shape is almost streamlined in right-angle style, which was really a year.
In addition to the limited height of the car, in order to show the coolness of the concept car, Aston Martin installed a similar Mercedes-Benz 300 for the bulldog. SL and DeloreanDMC gull-wing doors, such as 12.
At the same time, the headlight group is hidden behind the hood that can be lifted and lowered electrically, which was also a very high-tech thing in that year.
In 1980s, in order to realize the idea of building "the fastest mass-produced car in the world", aston martin built a bulldog and planned to mass-produce. Because the maximum speed should be 322km/h, but after the actual production, the car has been tested many times, and the maximum speed can only run to 307 km/h.
Forty years later, this speed is not a problem for Martin. See V 12? P and Valkyrie will understand.
Probably friends are very concerned about the mechanical quality of this bulldog, and in that year, Aston Martin was on tiptoe for power and profit. Bulldog adopts a 5.3-liter V8 twin-turbo gasoline engine with a maximum power of 600 HP and a maximum torque of 678 Nm. There is no doubt that these parameters were impressive figures in the 1980s.
However, it was not until 40 years later that Valkyrie doubled its maximum power with the help of the hybrid system. But the good news is, concept? Cars will finally become mass-produced supercars.
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