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The First Aston Martin Hypercar<\/h2>\n

In the 1970s, Aston Martin<\/a> decided to build its first hypercar ever. It was time for it. Other automakers were making wild wedge-shaped cars, and Aston wanted a hand in the mix. So, the company came together and designed one of the wildest wedge hypercars of the decade: the Aston Martin Bulldog.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bulldog was styled by\u00a0William Towns. He told EVO’s sister publication Vantage<\/a>: “All we had was a scale clay model, an incomplete tubular steel chassis, an engine and gearbox, a few unfinished panels and a collection of sketches …”<\/strong> From that, he and the rest of the Aston Martin team managed to make one of the wildest cars of the 70s.<\/p>\n

The car ended up being 15 and a half feet long, six feet wide, and about three and a half feet long. The car also had bladed wheels, disc brakes, and gullwing doors. The engine was a V8 that was unique to the Bulldog. The transmission was a five-speed ZF manual.<\/strong> The target top speed was 237 mph, but the car was able to 192 mph at MIRA, and there were plans to take it to the Ehra-Lessien test track but that never happened.<\/p>\n

At one point the Sultan of Oman was planning to buy the car, but when Russia invaded Afghanistan, he pulled out. From there, any hopes of this car becoming a production machine evaporated. Then it took a PR role and largely faded to obscurity. With Aston working on new supercars, EVO decided to take a closer look. You can check out the publication’s full article via the link by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Images from EVO<\/p>\n

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The First Aston Martin Hypercar In the 1970s, Aston Martin decided to build its first hypercar ever. It was time for it. Other automakers were making wild wedge-shaped cars, and Aston wanted a hand in the mix. So, the company came together and designed one of the wildest wedge hypercars of the decade: the Aston Martin Bulldog.\u00a0 The Bulldog was styled by\u00a0William Towns. 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