Automotive Masterpiece or Overpriced Garage Queen? Rapide V12.
For me at least, the Aston Martin Rapide V12 is more than transportation, it’s an emotional experience – as much as you can get in aluminum and leather. Automotive purists insist that its naturally aspirated V12 engine is worth every potential inconvenience. The car is a challenge to the practicality of a four seater that can actually excite like a two door sports car. However, with turbocharged engines becoming more efficient and increasingly environmentally conscious, is there a role left for such an unashamedly analog machine? The debate gets to the very essence of what they really want out of a performance car.
Masterpiece, hands down. This is a bespoke suit of automobiles, expensive, impractical, but oh so worth it.
Overpriced garage queen, no doubt. It’s a vanity project for people with more sense than money.
It's both. One that’s a masterpiece when it works, and an extremely expensive paperweight when it doesn’t. Welcome to British engineering!
If anyone is saying it is overpriced, they haven't heard a V12 sing at full throttle. It's automotive poetry.
Realistically, it’s a parts bin special with a pretty body. Marketers at Aston Martin deserve a raise.
Masterpiece? Maybe. Overpriced? Definitely. Isn’t that what luxury cars are for?
It's a future classic. We are going to kick ourselves in 20 years: Why did not buy one when they were 'cheap' ?
Garage queen? If you are doing it wrong, then only. The cars were meant to be driven: not coddled.
A rolling sculpture that just happens to have four doors and a V12. Art is in always someone else’s opinion, and always expensive.
Neither. It ends up being a compromise that is neither supercar nor luxury sedan. Jack of all trades, master of none.
In a heartbeat. There’s nothing in the world quite as practical as 12 cylinders of pure joy under the hood.
No way. Tell me about a car that starts up reliably at 6am every morning rather than one that sounds great, but leaves me stranded.
Practicality is not something to be sacrificed, it is something to be redefined. Four doors and a V12? That to me is practical luxury.
Absolutely. Sensible cars have no place in life. The Rapide is automotive theatre, and I am here for the show.
Nope. I'll take a Tesla any day. Fast, silent, and not too expensive to maintain. The future is electric, folks.
If doing it is fun, it’s not a sacrifice. For those who consider driving an event rather than a means of transportation, the Rapide is a car.
That V12 would be worth sacrificing a lot more than practicality for. My firstborn, for instance.
It's all relative. A minivan is practical to some. Any car with more than two seats is a compromise to others.
The question is: would you sacrifice the symphony of a V12 for practicality? And the answer is always no.
Why not both? The closest V12 sports car to a practical one is the Rapide. It's all about perspective.
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