The Aston Martin Vulcan is a wonderful machine, wonderful in that it is a gigantic seven-liter V12 track car built for no purpose other than to split Ferrari engineers’ eardrums. For some reason, Aston Martin gave it more wings.
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This is the Aston Martin Vulcan AMR, which is the latest extension of Aston Martin’s AMR program. AMR sort of extreme-ifies regular Aston road cars, like the Vantage and the Rapide.
http://jalopnik.com/aston-martin-has-a-new-top-tier-performance-trim-for-th-1793057954
But the Vulcan is already extreme, so this is like an extra extra, a pluperfect.
There’s no more power for the car, nor is there more noise. What there is is more canards, more gurney flaps, more wing. “The combined effect of these aerodynamic changes is a major increase in downforce, from the standard Aston Martin Vulcan’s 3150Nm to a colossal 4000Nm,” says Aston Martin, using a measurement of downforce I have never seen before. AM lightly contextualizes the figure to 3104Nm that the 2017 Le Mans-winning Vantage GTE produces.
Again, I don’t know why Aston Martin is adding downforce to a car that doesn’t need it, when it could instead invest in exhausts that exit through the hood and shoot flames.
DISCUSSION
It could be worse.