Unveiled: 2012 Aston Martin V12 Zagato Production Car

Today is a historic day for Aston Martin, as they officially unveil its V12 Zagato. Dr. Ulrich Bez, CEO of Aston Martin, said the Zagato “is one of the most desirable Aston Martin to be 98 years of history.” This is certainly a strong claim to do, especially given the fact that demand my opinion, almost everyone is already Aston Martin.

This is no ordinary Zagato Aston Martin, if, in the sense that it is not just a spiced up Vanquish or DB9 facelift. The V12 Zagato is based on the 1960 DB4GT Zagato is essentially a lighter version of the DB4GT and improved regularly, designed and built by Zagato in their production facilities in Italy. The rare Zagato 1960 is easy today for $ 6.5 million at auction.

You’re probably thinking, “So what? Aston Martin has a new car 50 years, what’s the problem?” -.. But it’s not so easy to see, do not just want Aston to unveil an updated Zagato, which they showed a Super GT car loans because the dealer Zagato Aston V12 hit around the world, in fact, before This article has also written two cars ready to race V12 Zagato concept has already competed in the 24 hour race at the Nurburgring Nordschleife. Aston is obviously not playing around with the new V12 Zagato. They have not only updated vehicles historically rare and beautiful, they also unleashed a beast that can not be ignored.

The new V12 Zagato, designed and built by the Italians themselves, especially on the Vantage-based platform, with a “unique combination of strength, beauty, intelligence, elegance and dynamic agility.” He sits on an aluminum chassis, a bound V12 naturally aspirated 6.0-liter producing 510 hp and 570 lb-ft of torque operates. This performance is on the road through a six-speed manual transmission, you 0-60 mph in 4.2 seconds is provided.

As always, Aston is the design of the V12 Zagato to impress with handmade carbon fiber and aluminum disk fails, only 150 of these cars of all time. The time required considerable work to each plate by hand shape, the entire production of this car limit. The Zagato V12 takes a few design elements from the original DB4GT, but mostly just intimidates with the usual Aston Martin fine performance, perfectly balanced design.

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