Car porn alert: Aston’s Zagato goes topless!

Published Aug 22, 2016

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By IOL Motoring Staff

Monterey, California - There could be no better place or time to spring this surprise on the exotic-car community.

Standing alongside the limited-edition Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Coupé at the prestigious Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance at the weekend was this devastatingly sexy and even more exclusive Vanquish Zagato Volante convertible.

Just 99 of them will be built strictly to order at Aston Martin's headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire for the US market only, with deliveries to begin in 2017 and frankly, if you need to ask the price you can't afford one.

The Volante shares its classic proportions with the Coupé; twin cowls on the rear deck smooth the airflow around the occupant's heads, strongly evoking Zagato's classic sports-racing designs of the 1950s and '60s, while carbon-fibre sills, front apron and diffuser visually tie the car down on to the road.

The cabin of the show car is finished in the finest Bridge of Weir leather, clear-lacquered carbon fibre and bronze anodised aluminium trim elements. Special Z quilt pattern stitching has been used on the seats and door panels, and the Zagato logo is embossed on the head restraints and stitched into the centre console.

Tweaked 435kW V12

Motorvation is provided by the same tweaked V12 as in the Coupé, rated for 435kW and taking the Volante from a standing start to 100km/h in an estimated 3.7 seconds.

Customer deliveries are set to begin in 2017.

Aston Martin's partnership with the iconic Milanese design studio goes back to 1960 and the track-focused DB4 GT Zagato. More recent collaborations include the 2002 DB7 Vantage Zagato, the 2012 V12 Vantage Zagato and, of course, the 2016 Vanquish Zagato Coupé.

Their previous Volante projects include the striking V8 Vantage Volante, the star of the 1987 Geneva show, and the 2003 DB AR1, a Zagato-bodied roadster version of the DB7 developed by Zagato, also exclusively for the North American market and limited to only 99 examples. Thirteen years later, it enjoys genuine collectable status and pristine examples command outrageous prices.

Motoring.co.za

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