Aston Martin is showing a new version of its four-door Rapide, which uses a gas-chugging V12 engine.

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Most recently, the 2012 Aston Martin Rapide takes the cake for stopping traffic.

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As well as the collection of aeroplanes, the Classic Air Force centre will operate pleasure flights in a DeHavilland Dragon Rapide bi-plane.

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The result is truly an American designed, engineered and manufactured four-door performance car that rivals such models as the Porsche Panamera and Aston-Martin-Lagonda Rapide.

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The front seats in the Rapide are snug, deep and form-fitting.

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The Condor Rapide was en route from the Channel Island of Guernsey to Poole in Dorset when the alarm was raised at about 17:30 BST on Sunday.

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The Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class was the first model of this ilk, with more recent additions including the Aston Martin Rapide, Volkswagen CC, Acura ZDX and BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo.

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The Aston Martin Rapide is an astoundingly beautiful car.

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Here, happily if rather accidentally, is the first American luxury supercar built in my lifetime, a car that could plausibly compete with the Maserati Quattroporte, the Porsche Panamera or the Aston Martin Rapide.

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Why submerge yourself in a lavage rapide?

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