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New pictures have surfaced online of Aston Martin’s sensational One-77 hypercar.

Along with these two new images, a document has emerged which purports to be a sales contract between Aston Martin and potential One-77 buyers.

There’s no way of verifying whether it’s real, but it does suggest new details about the car.

Excluding local taxes, the base price of the One-77 is claimed to be £1,050,000 – making it more expensive than a Bugatti Veyron. Selected customers can sec...Read the full article

Come on, over one mill?!?!  This thing needs to be twice as good as the McLaren F1 was in its day (and arguably still is today) to justify that price...

When people pay these ridiculous sums for cars, I'm sure one of the things they crave most is obvious exclusivity.  Surely nobody would pay over a million pounds to drive around in a (very) tarted up Vantage/DB9/DBS?

Thing is, all Astons look near-identical at the moment. They're going through the same corporate design allignment that BMW and Mercedes are often guilty of.  It's bad enough  having your £160k car mistaken for a £85k car, but a £!m car?  You want that to wear its uniqueness on its sleeve.