Aston Martin Vulcan what now? In a recently uploaded teaser video, Aston Martin is utmost adamant that something will be “Coming Soon” and that they “are working on something very special” for the Geneva Motor Show in March.
Before going any further, do press play, kick back and listen to the soundtrack of the clip below. Sounds like a de-catted AM28 5.9-liter V12 engine, doesn’t it? Concentrate a little bit more and you’ll also hear dramatic gear shifts.
I don’t mean to speculate gratuitously, but the aural pleasure those upshifts gave me are the product of a dog box transmission. You know, those motorsport-spec sequential gearboxes, units that don’t feature a road-going vehicle’s synchronizing mechanism. Boiled down to its core, a dog box is not a complicated ensemble.
Used in racing applications, this type of tranny delivers fast and precise shifting. Engagement is made possible by large teeth (dogs), which mate into matching openings machined into the surface that opposes the drive gear. Simply as that. Too bad that the downside of a dog box is the sheer violence on upshifts and downshifts.
Nevertheless, what’s up with the whole Aston Martin Vulcan thing? We’ve presumed that it’s got a V12, a dog box and it may be developed as a track-only toy for rich gentlemen drivers, but what about other, more organic details? It’s mum’s guess at the present moment, but we’re not holding our breath for an all-new model...
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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