'For on the one hand the Rapide plays the role of supremely refined, smooth-riding luxury car as well as anything in the class if left in its standard set-up.

Press the Sport button, however, alongside another button that stiffens the suspension dramatically, and the Rapide suddenly becomes a quite different kind of car – one that feels very close to a full-blown sporting GT....

The most elegant four-door sports car in the world? You bet it is, and then some.' – Autocar Magazine.

First shown as the Rapide concept at the Detroit Auto Show in 2006, the Aston Martin Rapide was intended from the outset to be 'the world's most beautiful four-door sports car.' Built upon the company's acclaimed VH extruded aluminium architecture, the V12-powered Rapide was greeted with universal acclaim by the world's motoring (and design) media.

Designed and engineered at Aston Martin's global headquarters at Gaydon, Warwickshire, and built at the Aston Martin Rapide Plant in Austria, the Rapide not onl...