Surprised, a friend of mine bought one. He saied, 99 pices, not clear at the Moment how many track cars. Car will not be availeble worldwide, Emissions etc.,... Downpayment and waiting to 2018 ;-)
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ISsEKcl88[/ame] Lots of footage of the 001: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37AjQ1_EKn4[/ame]
thank you for the correction! yes 2kgs not 2 lbs! being back and forth with europe get me messed up. I even talk Dollars over there...
Nothing from any other manufacturer will come anywhere close to this on the road. Guess it will be an LMP car that passed emissions and safety standards. Car looks insane and so awesome. Wish it was 2-3M GBP though. :/
I would rather have a nice boat for that money. I think a supercar would cost me my license, and finish in the garage.
This thing is just a concept tho. Doesn't have a transmission. Might have a electric reverse, maybe not. There are no guts to speak of at all, most of the car is, ahem, transparent. Looks it's just a shell. Anyone aware of any videos of the thing on a track or road?? SV Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
Took few free minutes to make this quick render https://s31.postimg.org/6b5kpmlzf/am_rb_am_001_01.jpg
Aston Martin-Red Bull 001’s V12 Is Going To Have A Ridiculous 11,000rpm Redline If any car deserved to be recognized as a game-changer, it should be this: the AM-RB 001. This is Adrian Newey’s vision for the ultimate road car and represents in a sense a modern take on the McLaren F1 recipe. The ultimate road car needs the ultimate engine so that’s why the company plans to use a naturally aspirated bespoke V12 unit that will rev up to 11,000rpm according to Marek Reichman, Aston Martin's chief creative officer who spoke to The Drive. “This will be an all-new V12, much smaller than the DB11 motor,” Reichman said. “It takes all of the knowledge of Formula One that Adrian has gained, not only at his current employer, but at Williams and McLaren as well. We may be saying farewell to this kind of powertrain, so we plan to produce the best of the species.” The relatively simple shape of the 001 hides perhaps the most advanced aero agenda seen on a road car, set to give the 001 the performance of an LMP1 car. The occupants will sit with their feet above their hip point, copying the driving position of an F1 or an LMP car. This is going to be huge when it will finally arrives on the road in 2018, with 99 road-legal units and 24 track-only cars scheduled for production. We simply can’t wait. H/T to Road&Track
Ditto for Ferraris. If I was a multi-squillionaire I'd definitely put an order in. This car will be amazing, and I hope the racing versions do actually race ... unlike an Enzo or La Ferrari. Pete
To be fair, the current hypercars are so fast that it will probably only be marginal improvements. I think it would be naive to expect even 5%. That said, Lambo offers these limited run cars for millions, that aren't faster than what's out there, and they sell.
I don't understand why you guys are saying this. This Aston will be a LMP car that can be driven on the road. So yeah performance figures in straight line tests may not tell a huge difference but on a track it will simply gap the "road car" pretenders. This car is being designed to race from day one and I'm sure Aston don't want to noncompetitive at say Le Mans; qualifying anyway. BUT if their track cars are like the LaFerrari Fxxk wanking machine, ie, only race against itself, then I retract everything and yeah you guys will be right. Pete
Oh, I think it's awesome and would get this over an FXXK. My point was merely that the improvement over a 918 is only going to be measured in fractions of a second in acceleration and perhaps a few seconds of lap time.
I think it's a cool concept too, wouldn't do it over an FXXK assuming I could legally drive the Ferrari on the street but that's just me. I just don't like all the hype of completely unproven performance figures. They're just theoretical. Far more theoretical even then CVK and his 19 second to 400 kph Regera.
It's often been said by people in the know that Newey is as talented a designer as Schumacher was a racing driver. I don't discount the potential as a gamer changer in a leap as big as the Mac F1 was in 94. If it wasn't Newey I'd be very skeptical. But if this is his as Murray was with the F1, it's really interesting.
This is an awesome concept, released right at the top of the current economic cycle with huge performance claims, and massive cues of people desperate to put down deposits for a concept car with a lovely shape and absolutely nothing underneath except ideas. Sounds like a modern day XJ220 scenario, and look how that ended...
I strongly believe Newey will deliver a game changing car. Remember red bull factory has all the top notch simulation tools and they are strongly efficient. I'm afraid this car will show how ferrari mclaren and porsche were maybe "lazy" in their engineering goals (all the cars are above 1500 kgs).
Usability is a factor and creature comforts add weight plus the cars all had heavy battery packs. Nothing about either three of them looks lazy to me. They all represented a massive leap forward to anything that came before. No car that comes next (literallly next not 50 yrs from Now) will represent as great a leap because the hybrids are already at the limit of current tire technology.
Well that depends on how you judge 'as great a leap'. If the criteria is based on irrelevant things like 0-60 times or top speed then you are right, but this car claims to be optimised for lap time, and in that space there is plenty of scope to significantly beat any road car out there. Losing weight and adding massive downforce will be critical. The tyres will be developed to cope.
