The Lagonda Rapide Had An Aston DB5 Heart, But An Edsel’s Face | Carscoops carscoops
Aston Martin has had a few goes at relaunching the Lagonda brand since the two became bedfellows in 1948, most famously with the wedgy, William Towns-designed Aston Martin Lagonda of the late 1970s and 1980s, and most recentlyBut less well-known is the Lagonda Rapide built in tiny numbers between 1961 and 1964. Only 55 cars were constructed, each built to order and loosely based on the contemporary DB4 coupe, but incorporating mechanical features that would appear onlater that same decade.
Like the DB4, the Rapide was built around a Superleggera tubular steel frame and clothed in lightweight aluminum panels, but the 114-in wheelbase meant the back seats were no longer torture devices. And they didn’t need to be because the front end had the torture thing covered.
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