{"id":18256,"date":"2015-02-25T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=18256"},"modified":"2015-02-25T06:59:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:59:27","slug":"todays-unaffordable-insanity-aston-martin-vulcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/todays-unaffordable-insanity-aston-martin-vulcan\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Unaffordable Insanity: The Aston Martin Vulcan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Set for a full reveal March 3 at this year&#8217;s Geneva International Motor Show, Aston&#8217;s Martin&#8217;s latest beast, the Vulcan, looks a bit like the thing Doc Brown might show up in if he was from 2050. This racetrack-only monster of a supercar undoubtedly sits in the price range of you&#8217;re dreaming to go marry a billionaire. They&#8217;re only making 24 of them, and if you do happen to be filthy rich (first of all, why are you on this website?), and you do happen to be a little insane, you&#8217;ll actually need to take lessons with Aston Martin before you can take the thing on the track by yourself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astonmartin.com\/en\/live\/news\/2015\/02\/24\/on-track-for-glory-aston-martin-vulcan-prepares-for-take-off\" target=\"_blank\">From Aston Martin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Born out of extensive motorsport experience \u2013 and using the brand\u2019s acknowledged flair for design and engineering ingenuity \u2013 the 800-plus bhp, all-carbon fibre Aston Martin Vulcan promises truly extreme performance.<\/p>\n<p>Uniquely for Aston Martin the new supercar \u2013 limited to just 24 examples worldwide \u2013 will allow owners the opportunity to precisely tailor their track day experience through a graduating scale of detailed power and dynamic performance adjustments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aston-martin-vulcan_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18259 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aston-martin-vulcan_01.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Aston Martin Vulcan Exterior\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aston-martin-vulcan_01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aston-martin-vulcan_01-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes pictures don&#8217;t quite do the job.\u00a0Behold this teaser trailer for a car. Yes, those are flames erupting from the side exhausts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ktD_ueZtReg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If that doesn&#8217;t entice you even a little bit, you have no right watching\u00a0<em>Spectre\u00a0<\/em>when it comes out, even if all you care about is seeing that sweet Daniel Craig body one more time on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>For the real gritty details, those available prior the the vehicle&#8217;s official reveal, head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astonmartin.com\/vulcan\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Martin&#8217;s website<\/a>. However, &#8220;performance data, together with further technical details about the ultra-exclusive track-only supercar, will be released closer to its track debut later this year,&#8221; according to the press release. It probably goes at least 500 miles per hour. Or just 88.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18257 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aston-martin-vulcan_11.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Aston Martin Vulcan Interior\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aston-martin-vulcan_11.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/aston-martin-vulcan_11-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of any real implication is one quick line in the press release, which explains that the vehicle was engineered\u00a0&#8220;with a design language hinting at the next generation of Aston Martin sports cars.&#8221; So, you know, if you aren&#8217;t the kind of guy on the Aston Martin &#8220;VIP sales program,&#8221; you could be the guy that buys the lesser version through the normal person sales program. Or you could just drive the lesser version in\u00a0<em>Forza 8.\u00a0<\/em>The Vulcan will be sold as $200 downloadable content, because of inflation and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>You could search Ben&#8217;s for deals on the Vulcan. You could.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"button green\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/search\/you%2527re%2520adorable\/?sr=1\" >Search Ben&#8217;s<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set for a full reveal March 3 at this year&#8217;s Geneva International Motor Show, Aston&#8217;s Martin&#8217;s latest beast, the Vulcan, looks a bit like the thing Doc Brown might show up in if he was from 2050. This racetrack-only monster of a supercar undoubtedly sits in the price range of you&#8217;re dreaming to go marry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":18258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1257,1258],"class_list":["post-18256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-aston-martin","tag-vulcan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18256"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18261,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18256\/revisions\/18261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}