Aston Martin Victor First Drive; This Retro Supercar Is a Dream

Very few people on earth get telephone calls like this one from Aston Martin: "We're thinking of doing a one-off car and wondered if you might be interested?" And yet, according to Simon Lane, director of Q and special projects for Aston, that's the (paraphrased) question asked of the eventual owner of the wicked Victor supercar.

Apparently, Aston found it still had a low-mileage carbon-fiber monocoque and V-12 engine from a One-77 prototype (that's the 77-unit jaw-dropper that made its debut more than a decade ago), and the brand's Q division thought it'd be a shame to just leave it in storage. So ideas began to percolate.

First, the "lightly used" structure was sent back to its original supplier, Multimatic, to be restored to as-new specification. Likewise, Aston Martin's engine partner, Cosworth, stripped the V-12 back to the block before rebuilding it. The resulting new and uniquely specified 12-cylinder improved on the One-77's quite adequate 750 hp and 500 lb-ft of torque to an even beastlier 836 hp and 614 lb-ft. It retains its 7.3-liter displacement and natural aspiration, but now the engine mates to a proper six-speed manual transmission instead of the One-77's six-speed automatic unit (with paddle shifters).


Credit Source : motortrend.com

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