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The Aston Martin DBZ Centenary Collection represents some of the most expensive cars ever made. Comprising the DBS GT Zagato and the DB4 GT Zagato Continuation, the collection retails for £6 million plus local taxes, or the equivalent of around $8 million. And deliveries have just begun.
Aston Martin announced on Thursday, November 7, that the first of just 19 DB4s have begun shipping to customers worldwide. This means at least part of humanity will soon be able to admire the extraordinary cars on whatever local tracks they will start popping up on.
“It has been our privilege and our pleasure to work with Zagato in the creation of these remarkable sports cars,” said in a statement Andy Palmer, Aston Martin Lagonda CEO.
“Now arriving in the hands of a tiny group of owners across the world I’m sure they, like me, will be honoured to play their part in the history of this great brand.”
Each of the 19 cars is hand-built, and it takes 30 Aston engineers roughly 4,500 work hours to put just one together. That means that if there was only one person working on them, it would have taken nearly ten years of labor to complete the series.
The first finished DB4 was shown in public this summer, at Le Mans. It sports a 4.7-liter engine, bigger than the 3.7-liter unit that went into the original, and develops over 390 hp. All are sent to the rear wheels using a very retro four-speed manual transmission linked to a limited-slip differential.
The new incarnation of the DB4 is not the first. Back in 2017, Aston launched a limited 25 units run called DB4 GT Continuation. One year later, it was decided to make a new version once more, one that was to be a “completely authentic“ nod to the original DB4 GTs made in the 1960s.
The pair of the DB4, the DBS GT Zagato, will enter production next year.
“It has been our privilege and our pleasure to work with Zagato in the creation of these remarkable sports cars,” said in a statement Andy Palmer, Aston Martin Lagonda CEO.
“Now arriving in the hands of a tiny group of owners across the world I’m sure they, like me, will be honoured to play their part in the history of this great brand.”
Each of the 19 cars is hand-built, and it takes 30 Aston engineers roughly 4,500 work hours to put just one together. That means that if there was only one person working on them, it would have taken nearly ten years of labor to complete the series.
The first finished DB4 was shown in public this summer, at Le Mans. It sports a 4.7-liter engine, bigger than the 3.7-liter unit that went into the original, and develops over 390 hp. All are sent to the rear wheels using a very retro four-speed manual transmission linked to a limited-slip differential.
The new incarnation of the DB4 is not the first. Back in 2017, Aston launched a limited 25 units run called DB4 GT Continuation. One year later, it was decided to make a new version once more, one that was to be a “completely authentic“ nod to the original DB4 GTs made in the 1960s.
The pair of the DB4, the DBS GT Zagato, will enter production next year.
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