The Aston Martin DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo, a conceptual 800bhp mid-engined supercar which exists inside the virtual world, is unveiled in the Goodwood Festival of Speed. A crack Aston Martin design team spent a hectic six months creating the radical machine, however it can never carry a passenger or turn a wheel in anger. Designed upon the proverbial blank sheet of paper, the car is really a virtual-only GT racer created to the hugely popular Gran Turismo 6 computer game. GT6’s creator, Kazunori Yamauchi, has invited a little number of car companies and “cool brands” to make new products and launch them inside the game over subsequent 12 months. The proposed twin-turbo V12 Aston is soon to become ready for download by gamers, and along with the virtual car, Aston Martin has created a full-size 3D display model to stress that it is removed from as like a frivolous project. “Many of the planning cues visible on DP-100 could feed into future sports cars we’ll launch inside the offline world, ” says Aston Martin design director Marek Reichman, who led the project. The model, seen exclusively by Autocar between completion and shipping to Goodwood, a couple of hours before its official launch, bristles with Aston references freshly and subtly expressed. DP-100 is supposed like a proper GT race car, short-nosed and low, having a cab-forward layout to provide maximum space for a big V12-based powertrain behind the driver. Inside the flesh is looks imposing but compact ; nowhere near as large like a full-size Lamborghini as an example. Upon the upper flanks there’s well-defined chine-line each side, running coming from the rear of each and every front wheel, upward and rearward to define the car’s proportions and particularly its prominent rear haunches, that almost architectural in form. The car’s styling refers clearly towards the Aston Martin One-77 supercar (via a well-defined chine-line that runs all around the car and defines its stance ), towards the recent CC100 anniversary car as well as to Aston’s revolutionary mid-engined Bulldog concept of the first 1980s. Designed from the late William Towns, it had a similar kind of radically 'waisted' body style. Race-bred aerodynamics contribute much to DP-100’s overall look, but designers have used trouble to avoid crudely added wings or cut holes to relieve high pressure areas. In key places air is ducted straight with the car — to profit of engine and downforce. The central front air intake has an unmissable Aston grille-shape, flanked using a set of two ducts that carry air straight through one‘s body to exit across a really large, Le Mans-style diffuser. “We designed the car according to some philosophy we call RaceCraft, ” explains chief exterior designer Miles Nurnberger, “which combines the no-nonsense requirements of the race car using the type of beauty and sophistication you discover on the really well-crafted road car. “The design is fully detailed, ” he adds. “We’ve created a plausible chassis and also a working suspension, a fully equipped cabin as well as an entire underbonnet layout, but to discover everything we’ve created. You need to play the overall game. The cabin is enclosed by forward-opening 'swallow' doors, plausibly designed because they need to open inside the GT6 game. The interior takes lots of influence coming from the open, spartan CC100 concept, which uses exposed carbonfibre surfaces in several places. Over DP-100’s front wheel arches (which in race cars are notorious high pressure areas ) the designers have provided ducts to the outflow of air, but disguised them brilliantly so the car’s proportions aren‘t interrupted. The wheels themselves really certainly can be a tour-de-force ; they‘re fitted with hinged carbonfibre blades, looking just a little like jet engine intake compressor blades, which bend outward beneath the wheel’s rotational forces to produce a smooth disc at high speed, for lowest aerodynamic drag. The wheels fit closely straight into the plainly styled wheel arches, and wear 255 / 40x20in Michelins in front, and 295 / 40sx20s behind. The colour scheme — a type of metallic China-white upon the left and right extremities, having a purple expanse upon the nose, the 2 major colour patches separated using a type of luminous orange — might not describe alright, however it looks amazing inside the flesh, doing what such a lot from the restr from the car does, suggesting a life in racing but performing it with greater-than-usual design sophisticated. Nurnberger reckons his favourite DP-100 features really certainly can be a tail light treatment made up in an exotic array of light-sticks (they look like something from a museum of modern art ) a set of two tiny headlights each buried inside the entrance to matching NACA ducts upon the short nose, that gather air for other uses, a set of two extravagantly curved pieces that define the car’s upper proportions (Nurnberger calls them floating cant rails ). Kazanori Yamauchi, who watched DP-100 evolve, says he’s delighted using the result : “When I first came face to face using this car I‘d been with a loss for words. It‘s is clean and classy, and likewise very emotional. Here was this future Aston Martin in front of me, so detailed it may be released in the marketplace pretty much because it. ” Exclusive : up close using the new Aston Martin DP-100
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Exclusive: up close with the new Aston Martin DP-100
The Aston Martin DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo, a conceptual 800bhp mid-engined supercar which exists inside the virtual world, is unveiled in the Goodwood Festival of Speed. A crack Aston Martin design team spent a hectic six months creating the radical machine, however it can never carry a passenger or turn a wheel in anger. Designed upon the proverbial blank sheet of paper, the car is really a virtual-only GT racer created to the hugely popular Gran Turismo 6 computer game. GT6’s creator, Kazunori Yamauchi, has invited a little number of car companies and “cool brands” to make new products and launch them inside the game over subsequent 12 months. The proposed twin-turbo V12 Aston is soon to become ready for download by gamers, and along with the virtual car, Aston Martin has created a full-size 3D display model to stress that it is removed from as like a frivolous project. “Many of the planning cues visible on DP-100 could feed into future sports cars we’ll launch inside the offline world, ” says Aston Martin design director Marek Reichman, who led the project. The model, seen exclusively by Autocar between completion and shipping to Goodwood, a couple of hours before its official launch, bristles with Aston references freshly and subtly expressed. DP-100 is supposed like a proper GT race car, short-nosed and low, having a cab-forward layout to provide maximum space for a big V12-based powertrain behind the driver. Inside the flesh is looks imposing but compact ; nowhere near as large like a full-size Lamborghini as an example. Upon the upper flanks there’s well-defined chine-line each side, running coming from the rear of each and every front wheel, upward and rearward to define the car’s proportions and particularly its prominent rear haunches, that almost architectural in form. The car’s styling refers clearly towards the Aston Martin One-77 supercar (via a well-defined chine-line that runs all around the car and defines its stance ), towards the recent CC100 anniversary car as well as to Aston’s revolutionary mid-engined Bulldog concept of the first 1980s. Designed from the late William Towns, it had a similar kind of radically 'waisted' body style. Race-bred aerodynamics contribute much to DP-100’s overall look, but designers have used trouble to avoid crudely added wings or cut holes to relieve high pressure areas. In key places air is ducted straight with the car — to profit of engine and downforce. The central front air intake has an unmissable Aston grille-shape, flanked using a set of two ducts that carry air straight through one‘s body to exit across a really large, Le Mans-style diffuser. “We designed the car according to some philosophy we call RaceCraft, ” explains chief exterior designer Miles Nurnberger, “which combines the no-nonsense requirements of the race car using the type of beauty and sophistication you discover on the really well-crafted road car. “The design is fully detailed, ” he adds. “We’ve created a plausible chassis and also a working suspension, a fully equipped cabin as well as an entire underbonnet layout, but to discover everything we’ve created. You need to play the overall game. The cabin is enclosed by forward-opening 'swallow' doors, plausibly designed because they need to open inside the GT6 game. The interior takes lots of influence coming from the open, spartan CC100 concept, which uses exposed carbonfibre surfaces in several places. Over DP-100’s front wheel arches (which in race cars are notorious high pressure areas ) the designers have provided ducts to the outflow of air, but disguised them brilliantly so the car’s proportions aren‘t interrupted. The wheels themselves really certainly can be a tour-de-force ; they‘re fitted with hinged carbonfibre blades, looking just a little like jet engine intake compressor blades, which bend outward beneath the wheel’s rotational forces to produce a smooth disc at high speed, for lowest aerodynamic drag. The wheels fit closely straight into the plainly styled wheel arches, and wear 255 / 40x20in Michelins in front, and 295 / 40sx20s behind. The colour scheme — a type of metallic China-white upon the left and right extremities, having a purple expanse upon the nose, the 2 major colour patches separated using a type of luminous orange — might not describe alright, however it looks amazing inside the flesh, doing what such a lot from the restr from the car does, suggesting a life in racing but performing it with greater-than-usual design sophisticated. Nurnberger reckons his favourite DP-100 features really certainly can be a tail light treatment made up in an exotic array of light-sticks (they look like something from a museum of modern art ) a set of two tiny headlights each buried inside the entrance to matching NACA ducts upon the short nose, that gather air for other uses, a set of two extravagantly curved pieces that define the car’s upper proportions (Nurnberger calls them floating cant rails ). Kazanori Yamauchi, who watched DP-100 evolve, says he’s delighted using the result : “When I first came face to face using this car I‘d been with a loss for words. It‘s is clean and classy, and likewise very emotional. Here was this future Aston Martin in front of me, so detailed it may be released in the marketplace pretty much because it. ” Exclusive : up close using the new Aston Martin DP-100
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