Aston Martin's Epic ONE-77 Unveiled!!

Aston Martin has shown off its audacious One-77 supercar’s first rolling chassis at Geneva.

Designed to occupy the very highest echelons of automotive performance, the One-77 is not a tarted-up DBS.
Despite employing classic Aston Martin long-nose styling proportions, One-77 is a bespoke engineering project - hardly surprisingly considering its Bugatti Veyron besting price of £1 200 000.
Built on a carbon-fibre monocoque tub chassis, One-77 cues its engineering credentials from the German DTM racing series.
According to Aston engineers, DTM racing showcases the most advanced front-engined, rear-wheel drive cars in the world. Subsequently it was a perfect design foil for the One-77, which had to remain true to Aston’s roots with a front-engined, rear-wheel drive layout.

The typically stunning Aston Martin styling hides a very sophisticated suspension configuration, blending a classic double-wishbone all-corner set-up, curiously located inboard, with pushrods. These pushrods transfer vertical suspension movements to the horizontally mounted damper units, it’s pure track technology.
Damping itself is fully adjustable – Aston will send engineers to your house to help you set it up too – and employs dynamic suspension spool valve technology (DSSV), Aston claiming it as a road car debut for the technology. These spool valves enable damper characteristics to be manipulated without having to remove the dampers themselves from the car.

Rolling on bespoke Pirelli P Zero Corsa tyres (255/35 ZR20 front, 335/30 ZR20 rear) developed specifically for the One-77 (though nearly similar in specification to the Lamborghini SuperVeloce also on show at Geneva) One-77 should provide a unique rear-wheel drive handling experience.
Powering the One-77 is a Cosworth fettled version of the Aston Martin DBS 6l V12. Swept capacity has been increased to 7.3l, though engine mass has been decreased by 25%, which should mean plenty of exotic materials constituting the block, heads and moving bits.
On target to produce the One-77 in road going form with a rolling mass of less than 1 500kg, performance figures should factor in a 3.5 second 0-100km/h time (it’s rear-wheel drive only remember) and top speed in excess of 320km/h.

With Aston having now shown the first rolling chassis at Geneva, our next hope is for them to announce the One-77’s actual production name, before the first owners take delivery of their cars later this year.