The earlier part of this decade yielded
some splendid hypercars. The hybrid trinity of the Porsche 918 Spyder, McLaren
P1, and LaFerrari. The Koenigsegg Agera and Pagani Huayra. The Bugatti Veyron
Super Sport. Against that backdrop – and the hype surrounding the forthcoming
Valkyrie – it’d be all too easy to forget about the Aston Martin One-77. But
that’d be a terrible shame, especially looking at this spectacular example.
Unveiled in 2009 and delivered from
2011, the One-77 was the most extreme performance machine Aston Martin had ever
made for the road. It was like a DBS on steroids, with a 7.3-liter V12 mounted
up front, sending 750 hp and 750 Nm of torque to
the rear wheels through a (lamentably outmoded) six-speed sequential
transmission.
The bodywork was wide, long, and low,
and contained little in the way of utility. Built around a carbon monocoque
chassis, it weighed less than 1,630 kg, could hit 60 in about
3.5 seconds, and top out at 350 km/h. A dedicated workshop within
Aston Martin’s main factory in Gaydon produced just 77 examples – of which just
seven were made towards the end of the line in Q-Series spec with even more
exclusive appointments. This was the sixth of them, and it’s coming up for
auction.
Outfitted in left-hand drive (for export
markets), painted white, with black wheels and red calipers, and upholstered in
a deep orangish-brown leather, it has just 300 km on the
odometer and has had just one owner since it was built seven years ago. Bonhams
projects it will sell at its forthcoming Goodwood sale for somewhere in the
£ 1.65-1.8 million range, or about US$ 2.25 million at current exchange rates. Not
a bad return, considering that the One-77 originally carried a price tag of
£ 1.15m – which seemed astronomic less than a decade ago.
