Aston Martin unveiled its stunning and virtual Design Prototype 100 – DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo exclusively for Sony’s Gran Turismo6 at Goodwood Festival of Speed. This mid-engined race car is powered by a massive twin-turbo V12 which offers up to 800bhp. Developed in-house by the Design team at Aston Martin, led by Design Director Marek Reichman, DP-100 Vision Gran Turismo will be available for GT6 owners to download in July 2014. The design team and design engineers started from scratch and worked for six months to create the new addition to the Vision Gran Turismo stable of race cars. Clearly pushing the boundaries of what an Aston Martin could be, DP-100 not only looks beautiful but also boasts a high degree of engineering integrity.
Created utilising many of the same techniques as applied in the development of Aston Martin production sports cars – hand sketches and 3D modelling, followed by full realisation in the virtual world – DP-100 provides an exceptional level of detail with a fully functioning suspension system and state-of-the-art electronics.
Design Director Marek Reichman said: “DP-100 has been an exciting and intensive project for the team here at Gaydon. Many of the design cues visible in DP-100, such as the light blade rear lamps, could also feed through into future sports cars that we’ll launch in the offline world so the importance of this project should not be underestimated.”
Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of Gran Turismo and President of Polyphony Digital Inc., said, “When I first came face to face with this car at the Aston Martin Headquarters in Gaydon, U.K., I was at a loss for words. There was this future Aston Martin in front of me, that was so detailed it could be released on the market pretty much as is.”
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