Unveiled at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show, the Aston Martin Rapide AMR (Aston Martin Racing) concept seemed to signal the impending end of the line for the British marque?s so-called four-door coupe?it would be a glorious sendoff for a model first introduced in 2010. When the production version of this super-tourer emerged the following year, it did not disappoint. Limited to just 210 examples, the Rapide AMR is many ways quite unlike any Rapide that preceded it: With great ingenuity, the team at Aston Martin hand-selected a list of styling cues and mechanical elements from track-focused models within the marque?s range and created the most ridiculous four-doored machine ever assembled in Gaydon.

The aluminum-bodied Rapide AMR utilizes Aston Martin?s 5.9-liter naturally aspirated V-12 engine, but its performance is here improved by boost mapping borrowed from the marque?s GT-division race platform (an upgrade also found in the limited road-going Vantage GT12). Paired with an intake system first employed on the Vanquish S, the AMR?s unique powerplant is reported to provide a gut wrenching 595 horsepower channeled through a remapped ZF ?Touchtronic III? eight-speed automatic transmission. The 4,387-lb sedan rockets past the 60 mph threshold in 4.2 seconds of fury, and though top speed is electronically governed to 185 mph, the chassis is reportedly quite comfortable at 210 mph.
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