Aston Martin Virage Volante - car classics

Aston Martin Virage Volante

Aston Martin Virage debuted at the Birmingham motor show, 1989, in the back of the two-door coupe. In 1993 appeared Aston Martin Virage Vantage. It was the reverse in the cars of the past years not only in name, but also by the variety of bodies - again become available cabriolet. Production of Aston Martin Virage lasted until 2000, all descended from the conveyor 365 coupe and 233 of cabriolets, the price of each of them began from £ an estimated 250,000. In addition, in 2011, there was an attempt to revive the glorious name of this model - a new generation of legendary cars.

Initially, it was planned that the V-shaped eight-cylinder engine 5.3 liters and capacity of 335 h.p., to appear on Aston Martin Virage, will be among the top of all power units of the company. However, in 1993 DB7 received V12-shaped power unit, who В«yellow shirt leader.В» Also Aston Martin Virage could be malleable six-speed mechanical or chetyrehstupenchatuyu automatic transmission. During the production of high-speed characteristics were improved. Initial 254 km/h increased up to 282 km/h. Acceleration to 60 mph decreased from 6.5 to 5.9 seconds. But a few, and grew fuel consumption - instead of the former 12l/100km recent models required by 13.5 liters for every hundred of the road.

Other names of this model: Aston Martin Virage 6.3, Aston Martin Virage Volante, Aston Martin Vantage Aston Martin V8 Vantage Le Mans, Aston Martin V8 Coupeé