Surfboard designer Roberto Ricci can afford a $210,000 Aston Martin Rapide luxury sedan. Unfortunately, there was no money left over for sense, driving skill, or an attitude adjustment.

The rumor mill once hinted at Mercedes-Benz buying Aston Martin. Not likely. But will the two team up on a project level? That's the talk from Financial Times, reporting Aston may build the next Maybach in a swap for drivetrains.

Not to be upstaged by the crash-happy Ferrari 458, a Dutch driver's gone and smashed up an Aston Martin Rapide. No details, but it looks like the poor svelte sedan took it from both ends. [AutoJunk.nl via GTSpirit]

A hailstorm knocked down a tree today at the Midwestern Automotive Media Association (Midwestern NAMBLA) annual pump n' dump for morbidly obese auto journalists at Road America, damaging an Aston Martin Rapide and Bentley Continental Super Sport.

One of our favorite new automotive artists has expanded his "Brand As Art" series with an interpretation of the Aston Martin wings for the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance and an ode to the Union Jack and the new Rapide.

Globally, Christmas weather is everything from tropical rainforest or frozen snow-piled wasteland. Although everyone wants to get over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house, these are the ten best vehicles for the job with presents in tow.

Aston's taking its sweet time getting more than a handful of decent shots of the 2010 Aston Martin Rapide out. It's kind of like a Porsche Panamera, but you know, attractive to look at. Here's a slew of new photos.

We first saw the production 2010 Aston Martin Rapide almost a year ago, now the four-door Aston is finally getting its official unveiling. Take note Porsche Panamera, this is how you do a beautiful four-door.

Simon Gregg of the seemingly always-on-the-ball-when-it-comes-to-Aston-Martin Car Magazine stumbled upon this production model of the all-new Aston Martin Rapide sport sedan sunning itself in a parking lot without a single trace of camouflage.

The Aston Martin Rapide four-door super-saloon has officially been uncovered in this first-look image. With flowing body work and a 6.0-liter V12 doling out 470HP and 442 lb-ft of torque, this is one sexy sedan.

Autocar has published what they claim to be official images of the 2010 Aston Martin Rapide rendered from final CAD data on the car. Surprise! It looks a lot like the concept car.

Mere weeks after showing you the supposed first rendering of the Aston Martin Rapide from the front we've got this supposed rear end shot of the new Aston to add to our collection.

According to CAR, this rendering shows the long-awaited production version of the Aston Martin Rapide. As expected and as indicated by multiple spy shots, the Rapide stays remarkably similar to the original concept, full-length glass roof and all. That’s a good thing, the Aston design language, as seen on the DB9,…

Lately, a few brands have been defining their own modern interpretations of the super sedan, with efforts like the Aston Martin Rapide, Lamborghini Estoque, Porsche Panamera, and even the Fisker Karma. The problem is they all feel a bit vulgar, lacking the cool factor of super sedans in the past. But before we can…

So the Lambo teaser images were for the Lamborghini Urus, a four-door concept car on it's way to the Paris Motor Show. The bovine Urus, the latest in a string of four-door supercar production or concept cars joining the Porsche Panamera and Aston Martin Rapide in the realm of the more-than-two door uber-cars. With…

As the development timing of the pending crop of super saloons converges, the Nürburgring is getting crowded these days and the Aston Martin Rapide is one seeing track time. Now it's been snagged on video and it certainly makes a fun sound. From the looks of things, it's going to be quite a battle royal when the…

We've already seen the four-door Aston Martin Rapide sitting pretty almost completely sans camouflage. This time we've caught the Aston Martin that Ford didn't want to build in a similarly disrobed state as it kicked off some hot-lapping of the infamous Nürburgring. These shots do show off one heretofore unknown…