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Grand Tourer of the Year: Winner
Congratulations to the Aston Martin Rapide, the winner of our 2011 Grand Tourer of the Year category.
The Aston epitomises the fast four-door. Elegant but thunderously fast, practical but still beautiful, too.
Said judge Bill McKinnon: "The Rapide wins because it's got the grand tourer performance/handling/comfort/luxury formula spot-on. It has enough of everything and too much of nothing... except beauty and class. Every time you climb in, it's an occasion. Climb out, even at the end of a 1200-kilometre day, and you'd be up for more."
Up next: the finalists of the Sports Car category.
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So. What’s the coolest Aston of all time?
Aston Martin was named the UK’s “coolest brand” this week. Congratulations. But which one’s best?
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Aston Zagato V12 racer: new pics
Bespoke ‘Ring racing Aston readies for this weekend’s Nurburgring epic. Will it finish?
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To create the outline, Zagato sculpted each section of the GT’s panels from sheet alloy using a contraption called an English wheel.
It’s a weird-looking c-on-its-side-shaped apparatus and it allows you to turn your sheet of flat metal into a smooth, rounded shape that follows two different curves.
Zagato also used old-school wooden bucks, which look like timber skeletons of the car. Over the course of several painstaking hours, metal’s carefully bent over it and tapped into shape using different shaped, sized and weighted hammers.
Both of which take years of training, steely patience and a brown store coat to operate successfully. We salute you, brave panel beaters. Now please make us a V12 GT. -
Aston Martin and Zagato tease concept
Supercar to debut at Villa d’Este celebrates 50th anniversary of DB4GT Zagato
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