The World's Only Road-Legal Aston Martin Vulcan Is Insanely Detailed

Some car buyers have so much spare cash that the cost of things really doesn’t matter. Sometimes that creates crazy, wonderful things, like this.

You’re looking at the only road-legal Aston Martin Vulcan in the world. Created from one of the mere 24 Vulcans ever built, with Aston Martin’s blessing, it’s the work of RML Group. The company does most of its work on high-profile racing programmes around the world, but who could say no to a chance like this?

The Vulcan was created as a very road-illegal racecar for the world’s elite private racetracks. It had no ground clearance, no appropriate cooling system for low-speed road use and no interest in passing emissions tests. It didn’t even have any dipped-beam headlights, meaning a craftsman with balls of titanium had to cut new apertures in the incredibly precious carbonfibre front wings. Gulp.

A spread of extras help it tick the safety and road-worthiness boxes while a comprehensive remap and new cooling systems make the 7.0-litre normally-aspirated V12 good on the emissions and practicality front. The gear ratios and clutch have been changed to make it more usable, there’s a ride height lift function for when you forget there’s a speed bump on your route, and a pair of DB11 door mirrors have been added to custom stalks.

On the inside the interior has been smoothed of all its pointy bits that affect crash safety, while central locking is one of those hilariously necessary additions you just don’t think about – but these guys did.

RML Group has even added windscreen washer jets and wipers, and the number plate mount looks like it was designed to be there in the first place. Even though we knew about the plans for this car two years ago, it’s a mighty thing to witness now it’s finished.

As a footnote, we hope Sainsbury’s sells premium unleaded, because that’s where it seems to be filling up in this video from Lovecars (Instagram: @lovecars). We think we might take it to a branded station, if it were us…