With all that power going to the rear wheels, the One-77 is absolutely vicious – able to spin up its wheels at motorway speeds if you floor the throttle. Its figures speak for themselves: 0-62mph takes less than 3.7 seconds and top speed is more than 220mph.
carbonfibre body just wouldn't be the same. Of course, the basic layout of the One-77 had to honour tradition, too. So it has a front-mid V12 engine driving the rear wheels through a six-speed automated manual gearbox. But the familiar Aston 5.9-litre V12 has been radically re-developed by Cos