Chris Harris In The Aston Martin Vulcan | Top Gear: Series 23 | BBC

This is the Aston Martin Vulcan, named after the legendary British Cold War bomber, which is a pretty daring name to give a car. After all, Vulcan was one of our greatest engineering feats of the 20th century. Calling your car Vulcan is like naming your child Ace. o Elvis has a lot to live up to, the Vulcan is the fastest, most powerful, most extreme Martin has ever built, not even 60 under 3 seconds, top speed over 200 mph and that's with a wing Huge in the rear that slows it down. Well, that depends on what you do with your knob.

This knob here increases the power from 550 horsepower to 820 horsepower. Now Aston Martin has asked me to leave it in position one while I take on the Vulcan because it can be a little lively, wow, phenomenal. like they put you in LG in one of those old-fashioned mangroves because the Vulcan seems to have time traveled from the future. You might think that all this speed comes from some cutting-edge hybrid wizardry, but that's not really the case, to tell you the truth, the Vulcan. It's a bit of a knuckle-dragging caveman, unlike, say, Ferrari. Aston Martin doesn't have an F1 team that can borrow technology, but it has a suitably British attitude, so the Vulcan largely comes from making the most of what you've got. got Engineering School and its engine started life in an old Mondo, well actually two old Mondos in the 90s, Aston got a couple of V6s from the first generation Mondo and put them together to make a V12 was well as time went by.

They've improved it to the point where they redesigned it and it now has twice the power, but the fact is that the most powerful Ason ever made by Martin is powered by The Leftovers of a couple of family saloons, but that matters, it doesn't really . Humans share 60% of their DNA with chickens, but you don't see many roosters in the college challenge, do you? And when your Mondo engines sound like that, who cares, just listen, yeah, it's like the fastest race car I've ever driven in a straight line. it's like a big GT car, a big L car, it's just fantastic and because Aston hasn't bothered with heavy hybrid stuff, the Falcon is light and agile, which means it's very good at doing this, so it's fast here at 115 mph on the left, same thing again. right at the exit, lean over the wing and then simply open the fot.

I never get tired of it, just hanging on your belts. So physical. I have to admit that I am at the limit of the speed I can go and let's talk at the same time, I have to concentrate, so instead of telling you how fast this is going, since we have the Yas Marina Formula 1 circuit to play with, Let's do a little demonstration instead of a lap on the track, me and the Vulcan against this. The 573 horsepower V12 Vantage, capable of reaching 205 thousand miles per hour, is the fastest Aston on the road you can buy and in it is Darren Turner, he is also very fast.

Darren is a two time class winner of his at Lamont, he's not what you call slow, so, oh, and just to make things interesting Darren has a 20 second head start he should probably warm up the tires. I think they're hot enough, don't you? With Darren now a good half mile off the road, let me show you what the Vulcans were really made of. At 200 mph, this car creates its own body weight in downforce, so in theory you could drive it backwards; However, in practice, my face bends, which is a very positive thing for driving and since you have Dam Force, you can throw it into these fast corners and once I've made it through the corners, over 800 horses are ready to close the gap an little more.

The power advantage is huge, oh I can see it, I can see it, there's over 500 horsepower in that thing and we're catching it as is. standing still I can see a Laon winner look at the way we've just climbed massively oh yeah the Vulcan really is the best of Aston Martin The best of the British is forceful it's brilliant Chris Pit doesn't challenge the limits of Technology now but Who cares, it makes you feel completely alive Chris, do you copy? This is a car that you just want to drive and drive and drive Chris, come on Chris, oh.