At Geneva motor show 2015 we will be seeing two marvels, the all-new McLaren P1 GTR and the mouth-watering LaFerrari FXX K from Italian supercar manufacturer, but what you have not seen is the weapons-grade track only special edition Vulcan from English car maker Aston Martin.
Now the question arises, “Is it really different from its ancestors?” Well, it sure is. If you look at the aesthetic of this new car you would see nothing that has ever been done before.
The teasingly low nose and the sylphlike headlamps are undoubtedly something that we have never witnessed before. The Gaydon designers have surely come out of their restraints and showed they mean some serious business with this track only monster.
Aston openly admits that they are going for a complete styling update which is going to be pleasantly different from its present range of glorious vehicles.
Let’s look at what kind of monster we are looking at with a 7.0-litre V12 engine that churns out 800bhp plus? And the answer is blindingly fast with no compressor-driven supercharger or a turbocharger whatsoever just pure madness.
This piece of art is scheduled to be made in 24 examples only and the price is set to £1.8m in the UK which eventually means Vulcan sits right at the top of Aston Martin range. You’ll be getting a wonderful car with a full composite construction with 380mm Brembo carbon brake discs, magnesium torque tube for carbon fibre prop shaft, six-speed Xtrac sequential gearbox and 19in Michelin track tyres.
According to Palmer, they are going to introduce a “Unique ownership programme” on the first deliveries in 2016 which will consist of an intensive driver training program using the Vantage V12s. There will also be Darren Turner’s race-car simulator and at last the One-77 hypercar before you finally move on to the beast itself, the Vulcan.
