Something common between Top Gear & Fifth Gear this week
 

I just noticed it... do you? :)

http://img56.exs.cx/img56/6718/Snapz...enSnapz001.jpg

http://img56.exs.cx/img56/8725/Snapz...enSnapz003.jpg

Re: Something common between Top Gear & Fifth Gear this
 

yep and it broke repeatadly LOL i think they need a new press car :P

I suppose that the brand is conscious that the car can be crashed so they only want to take this risk with only one car...

so thats why the damn thing broke so much. :P

yeah noticed, as was stated in the 5th gear topic guys i think.
a poor effort on astons behalf :|

And also: the Zonda Roadster used by Hammond is the same used by evo (the magazine), I am 99% sure ;) and it's actually not a press car but a privately owned one!

with a very genourous onwer :P I fell in love with that car too after that test, I always liked the regular Zonda, but now a roadster in Red is my new Dream Car :D :D :D

not only generous but really lucky to be able to have one. top gear said that is cost $415k!!!! man, you guys have any idea how long that would take me to get one?

lets see: working at resteraunt $5 per hour.
415000/5 = 83000 hour. = 3458.3 days = 9.474 years.

i can get 1 in 9 years and that is if i work 24/7 a day for 9 years.
man, that sucks, this just make me realized how poor i am. :(

Oh for god's sake.. lol. Think how much time you wasted working that out.. :) could have been out there earning some money.

A used zonda in five years will be worth half that money, plus if you work you way up to restaurant manager you may be earning 10 bucks an hour - see - you're already much closer :P

Actually i think that was £415k so your even further away :P :wink:

oh man, i give up, i am just gonna buy a poster and then forget about getting one. (i looked around for models in ebay but they arent that nice looking, wheels are so high up its like a zonda suv.)

by the way, are they just gonna made 40 of them? everyone kept telling different stories, someone said 20 someone said no limit ....

anyone knows the real deal?

they have nothing in common

there is 2 guys in one, and a girl in the other....

ohhh the first one has an awsome car, the other pics have shitty british car..

remind me not to get you as a witness in a hit & run... ;)

That's very common.

At least here in Portugal. In car magazines a lot of times they test the same car, with the same plate. In mags that come out exactly in the same day. And a lot of times, in a comparison between the same cars, in diferent mags, they give the victory to diferent cars. :roll:

Aston Martin is a tiny company.... remember, before the DB7, they were selling only 60-70 cars per annum, and only 1500 in the 50 years before 1990 (in total!!)

They simply cannot justify having more than one, £180k press car, that will need maintaining (remember, a mag tester does not change the tyres, or replace worn out/broken parts) :wink:

This explains why this particular Vanq S is in all the UK car magazines this month.

Same for the Pagani Zonda Roadster.... with only 40 built to reserve one for the press would be stupid, unlike the Zonda C12S. In this month's evo magazine, the car is the original press model, with "well over 120, 000kms on the clock" Not bad for a supercar, but then it is powered by AMG Mercedes :wink: