Aston Martin Rapide

The Aston Martin Rapide is an executive saloon that Aston Martin produced from 2010 until 2020, and it was the company's first series-produced four-door car. Development began in 2005, Marek Reichman completed the first design in about seven weeks, and a prototype was shown at the 2006 North American International Auto Show. The production car debuted at the 2009 International Motor Show Germany, and manufacture began in May 2010 at the Magna Steyr plant in Graz, Austria, before moving to Gaydon in Warwickshire in 2012. It uses the aluminium vertical and horizontal platform shared with the DB9 and a 5.9 litre V12 producing 350 kW. A battery-electric concept, the Rapide E, was shown in 2015 and 2019 but never series-produced.