john banks

2.5 mile straight and only got to 178 mph with 520 BHP, maybe that included the braking distance as well. Maybe it is just too heavy so doesn't accelerate to vmax very quickly?

hawkthescoobslayer

eeeeeeeeeekkkk

we really really should meet soon john

john banks

Not me, VBH, presume you saw it. Only had mine to 7000 RPM in top, but it doesn't take 2.5 miles to do it LOL. But it doesn't do it with style and keep its water in place either

bluenose172

iTrader: (2)

Top Gear had three broken gearboxes and she broke it twice, doesn't bode well for future sales.

chrisp

you could see her been thrown forward on gearchange like Clarkson commented on

RON

Would she not have been better rather than starting at a stndstill to go onto the runway at say 50mph and then floor it, that would cut out the time and distance taken just to get launched, they might break, but I'd still have one, just for the james bond stylee service!!

Blow Dog

Too heavy a car.
I got 175mph at 1.6 miles at Bruntingthorpe in my 550.

brickboy

Didn't the timing people say that at the rate of accel, etc, the Vanquish would've needed a 5-mile run to make Vmax?

The REAL top speed of a car or bike is what it will hit on a half-mile straight between corners, before you have to brake again ..... all the rest is just Top Trumps nonsense.

DAVE-W

hhmmmm...yes...bloody awful state of affairs....sold mine for that very reason chaps....tally ho

Blow Dog

Yup - well put.

Cem

Gidney&Knowlesy

Yeah but when the mechanics turned up in their own helicopter.............twice; how cool was that.

7 Foot

Not cool enough to disguise the fact that their car is flawed.

DAVE-W

Cem,

How's the 550 going anyway m8?

Shark Man

Who makes the vanquish's gearbox?

ZF?

hawkthescoobslayer

at last count it was either Rowntree's or Cadbury's can't remember which

Shark Man

Found it myself....Magneti-Marelli

Funny that...they make the gearbox for 575 (could be even the same box with different software )

Conspiracy?

Shark Man

Although more likely this:

Aston Martin Gearbox: Modified version of the American Tremec T-56 transmission, with the control/actuation/software devolped by Magneti Marelli.

Ferrari: Clean sheet design, or using a more specific existing Ferrari based transmission.

logiclee

The Magneti-Marrelli sytem is used by Aston, Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa and even Fiat.

Big differences in the type of gearboxes it's fitted to and the complexity of the electronics and software though.

Cheers
Lee

thecirsch

Knowlsey, has it given you any ideas then??

I can see it now, Airwolf with a hugh XS on the side