Graham Hill Reviews The Aston Martin Rapide

Friday, 11. June 2010

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The now famous Graham Hill new car review focuses this week on another unnatural car, the 4Dr Aston Martin Rapide. First of all Aston Martin create the craziest car ever, their new city car, then they bring out a 4Dr saloon. I was beginning to think these sport car producers had lost the plot until I recently saw the 4Dr Porsche Panamera in the flesh and it actually looked pretty good. I was all set to hate it but I ended up quite impressed. Auto Express reviewed the Rapide and I was quite prepared to ignore the reviewer, James Dinsdale, as he has a beard and looked as though he should have been reviewing a hybrid car or a car powered by the moon, not a car that kicks out the same amount of CO2 as a small coal driven Russian power station but he actually had a lot of nice things to say about it and do you know what I quite like it also. It may have lost a bit of style due to the length and the back seats look as though the Berlin Wall has been rebuilt between the two rear passengers making it virtually impossible to embrace one of my adoring fans in the back seat but it all hangs together quite well. Would I pay the £140,000 asking price – no! Am I impressed with the fuel consumption of 17.5mpg (est) – No. And I’m certainly not impressed with a 0-62 acceleration of 5.3 seconds when the top Porsche 4WD Cayenne can manage it in 4.7 seconds but it certainly does have something! A word of advice, avoid the David Dickinson coloured interior – talk about being Tango’d. By Graham Hill