Aston Martin One-77 Is The Hypercar That Time (Almost) Forgot

The earlier part of this decade yielded some splendid hypercars. The hybrid trinity of the Porsche 918 Spyder, McLaren P1, and LaFerrari. The Koenigsegg Agera and Pagani Huayra. The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. Against that backdrop – and the hype surrounding the forthcoming Valkyrie – it’d be all too easy to forget about the Aston Martin One-77. But that’d be a terrible shame, especially looking at this spectacular example.

Unveiled in 2009 and delivered from 2011, the One-77 was the most extreme performance machine Aston Martin had ever made for the road. It was like a DBS on steroids, with a 7.3-liter V12 mounted up front, sending 750 horsepower (559 kW) and 553 lb-ft (750 Nm) of torque to the rear wheels through a (lamentably outmoded) six-speed sequential transmission.

The bodywork was wide, long, and low, and contained little in the way of utility. Built around a carbon monocoque chassis, it weighed less than 3,600 pounds (1,630 kg), could hit 60 in about 3.5 seconds, and top out at 220 mph (350 km/h). A dedicated workshop within Aston Martin’s main factory in Gaydon produced just 77 examples – of which just seven were made towards the end of the line in Q-Series spec with even more exclusive appointments. This was the sixth of them, and it’s coming up for auction.

Outfitted in left-hand drive (for export markets), painted white, with black wheels and red calipers, and upholstered in a deep orangish-brown leather, it has just 300 kilometers (186 miles) on the odometer and has had just one owner since it was built seven years ago. Bonhams projects it will sell at its forthcoming Goodwood sale for somewhere in the £1.65-1.8 million range, or about $2.25 million at current exchange rates. Not a bad return, considering that the One-77 originally carried a price tag of £1.15m – which seemed astronomic less than a decade ago.