Does Aston Martin need a good reason to make the Vulcan street legal? Apparently so…
Offering a bespoke, unique, $2.2 million, 800 HP V12 track-car exclusively for track-use isn’t enough, because some customers want to take it on the public streets and show it off. That’s why, Aston Martin is allegedly thinking whether or not to make the Vulcan street legal.
In an interview for Autovisie, Simon Croft – Aston’s product manager – stated that converting a Vulcan to road use is a difficult job, since the car wasn’t based on a pre-existing hypercar.
Unlike McLaren’s P1 GTR of Ferrari’s FXX-K, the Vulcan was conceived as a track-car from scratch and the engineers didn’t considered a street-legal variant throughout the stages of development. Furthermore, the car was built with all the relevant FIA race safety requirements and has FIA approved track-day components only, but it can’t compete in official GTE races because its power-to-weight ratio exceeds the limitations imposed by the regulation.
Nevertheless, Aston will look into it and eventually come up with a decision. Only 24 examples of the track-day Vulcan will be built and if the stars align perfectly for us petrolheads and the British car manufacturer decides to go for it, we would expect a very limited run.
Come on Aston, built your “way-too-hardcore-for-official-racing-usage’ Vulcan to road legal specification!
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