– As seen in Edition 32 – The East Coast Edition
One-77; The Essence of Aston Martin!“——-
——-“ Considered by many as the most beautiful cars in the world, Aston Martin is certainly no stranger to design! And with the connection to the Le Mans 24hr races with the high performance DB9 and DBR’s, it’s certainly no stranger to performance ! So adding the two together to create a very low volume limited edition classic with exceptional high performance, would be very easy to do. And they wouldn’t need Bond to sell it !< Aston Martin know how to put together a beautiful and high performance classic collectible! They’ve been doing it for years and have various low volume cars including the DB40 and the Zaggato. Each of these cars are the pedigree and heritage of the 177, so what Aston Martin are doing is bringing in a modern version of a very low volume, very high tech and very exclusive product! The technique used for the 177 compared to other cars, varied in many ways though.
Aston Martin CEO and visionary for the 1-77 production had a very specific concept for the car.
The idea of low volume cars is that you can focus on more detail and quality than with high volume production runs. Specifically, if you make only 77 cars, you can do a lot of things that you can’t do with 3,000 or 5,000. So when producing 77 of the worlds more desirable products, there would be the opportunity for that true craftsmanship, that combination with the high tech brake system and engine and chassis so you have that juxtaposition of art and engineering really combining to create this incredible product. Bez observed that despite all the 7’s (1-77, 7 litre with 700 horse power), Aston Martin is not about figures. His instruction to the design team was clear;
To Ulrich Bez, when a customer buys a 1-77, what they are getting is what he and his team understand is perfection. In much the same way as Davinci spoke about proportions in beauty, the mathematical proportions can be applied to a car as well. It’s all about how that proportion sits within the frame. So with the 1-77, that beautiful proportion is the balance between it’s height, the wheel base, it’s length and it’s width. The body of the car is hand made. All hand wheeled in aluminium, and the high tech nature of the chassis, which is a carbon fibre chassis is a mixture of art and engineering. That begins the essence of the 1-77.
Bez goes on to describe the 1-77 as an inanimate object that comes to life! And the noise is purposely NOT suppressed, so the driver forms an attachment to everything going on in the car. The driver is part of the system. The car is a thoroughbred and you have to get used to how it reacts to you. The promise is that once you put your efforts into the car, it will reward the driver. So it’s expected that when you press the `loud’ peddle, it’s going to get loud, and Aston Martin certainly don’t make any excuses for that! The big thing is it’s effortless ability to get to speed, so imagine being in any gear and being able to accelerate faster than anything else you feel on the road. That’s beyond feeling fast and almost to the point of asking yourself whether you should be doing this !
“——- Aston Martin has Soul, it’s Mystifying, there’s a Mystique behind it ! ——-“ ________________________________________________
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Awesome car