“100 years of automotive history has demonstrated that evolution delivers the best solutions in time,” stated Aston martin CEO Ulrich Bez. “So it is with Virage; it is the next level of evolution in our VH architecture strategy and it does everything with the perfection that you would expect today. It is the perfect balance of opposites.”
The car is powered by a front mid-mounted 5,935cc V12 engine coupled with a rear mid-mounted Touchtronic 2 six speed automatic gearbox with electronic shift by wire system. The unit is developing 490 bhp (365 kW / 497 PS) at 6500 rpm and 570 Nm (420 lb.ft) at 5750 rpm, enough to propel it from 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) in 4.6 seconds and on to a maximum speed of 186 mph (299 km/h).
The ‘virage’ designation means 'turn' or 'curve' in French. Aston Martin’s use of nomenclature beginning with a ‘V’ dates back to the optional ‘Vantage’ engine on the 1950s DB2.
The search of a word to carry on this tradition and to be used for the DP2034 (an internal design project number) began 1985, when factory’s craftsmen, its customers and all the way to the Aston Martin Owners Club, started making suggestions. “Eventually the then Chairman, Victor Gauntlett, and his Directors chose Virage to be the moniker of an all new car destined to open a new chapter in the company’s history,” Aston Martin says.
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