Automotive Masterpiece or Overpriced Garage Queen? Rapide V12.

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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.

@anika-agra · Accepted Answer

A rolling sculpture that just happens to have four doors and a V12. Art is in always someone else’s opinion, and always expensive.

@abhay-sing · Answer

It's all relative. A minivan is practical to some. Any car with more than two seats is a compromise to others.

@sujit-kuam · Answer

That V12 would be worth sacrificing a lot more than practicality for. My firstborn, for instance.

@md-shafi-i · Answer

Nope. I'll take a Tesla any day. Fast, silent, and not too expensive to maintain. The future is electric, folks.

@bhawesh-ku · Answer

Neither. It ends up being a compromise that is neither supercar nor luxury sedan. Jack of all trades, master of none.

@rahul-kuma · Answer

In a heartbeat. There’s nothing in the world quite as practical as 12 cylinders of pure joy under the hood.

@shashank-s · Answer

Practicality is not something to be sacrificed, it is something to be redefined. Four doors and a V12? That to me is practical luxury.

@abhinit-ku · Answer

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.

@shubham-ag · Answer

The question is: would you sacrifice the symphony of a V12 for practicality? And the answer is always no.

@varun-shar · Answer

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.

@saket-jha · Answer

Absolutely. Sensible cars have no place in life. The Rapide is automotive theatre, and I am here for the show.

@ashish-kum · Answer

Why not both? The closest V12 sports car to a practical one is the Rapide. It's all about perspective.

@chandan-ku · Answer

Garage queen? If you are doing it wrong, then only. The cars were meant to be driven: not coddled.

@shubham-ag · Answer

It's a future classic. We are going to kick ourselves in 20 years: Why did not buy one when they were 'cheap' ?

@rahul-kuma · Answer

Masterpiece? Maybe. Overpriced? Definitely. Isn’t that what luxury cars are for?

@rahul-sahu · Answer

Realistically, it’s a parts bin special with a pretty body. Marketers at Aston Martin deserve a raise.

@charu-garg · Answer

If anyone is saying it is overpriced, they haven't heard a V12 sing at full throttle. It's automotive poetry.

@ashish-kum · Answer

It's both. One that’s a masterpiece when it works, and an extremely expensive paperweight when it doesn’t. Welcome to British engineering!

@piyush-pah · Answer

Overpriced garage queen, no doubt. It’s a vanity project for people with more sense than money.

@charu-jain · Answer

Masterpiece, hands down. This is a bespoke suit of automobiles, expensive, impractical, but oh so worth it.

Automotive Masterpiece or Overpriced Garage Queen? Rapide V12.

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