One particularly interesting bit regarded the shooting brake, which Nurnberger said, "we sort of started it and then realized to make a really good shooting brake we had to do a lot more engineering." Thus, the long-roof Vanquish actually has a longer wheelbase than the rest of the cars. According to Nunberger, the rear of the car is taken from a modular platform and is essentially a rear of a Rapide that has been added on. Of course, that required total reengineering, retesting, as well as re-crashing to bring it to production......
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When it comes to luxurious grand touring machines, you can’t do much better than an Aston Martin DB11. One can’t help but feel a bit like James Bond behind the wheel, ready to outsmart the bad guys while en route to an undercover black-tie dinner where the drink of choice will be a vodka martini, shaken not stirred of course. You may not be a superspy, but this particular Aston Martin currently for sale at JamesEdition can give you a bit of extra protection from baddies in the form of a level four armor upfit from Trasco Bremen.
What exactly does that mean? In short, driver and passengers are shielded from small arms and rifle fire thanks to steel and composite armor materials fitted into the doors, as well as ballistics grade glass for all the windows....
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