New Aston Martin Vantage: "complete hooligan" lands on 12 February

Aston Martin volition unveil the caller Vantage connected 12 February arsenic the adjacent signifier successful the reinvention of its sports car line-up. 

Following blistery connected the heels of the caller DB12 expansive tourer, the rebooted coupé – previewed for the archetypal clip beneath – volition beryllium "the fastest and astir exhilarating" Vantage yet, Aston says. 

It volition beryllium revealed alongside Aston's 2024 Formula 1 car, arsenic good arsenic the latest mentation of the Vantage GT3 racer, arsenic the firm kicks disconnected 1 of its busiest years successful caller representation for caller products. As good arsenic the Vantage, caller cars coming successful 2024 see the drop-top DB12 Volante, the V12 replacement for the DBS, the Valhalla mid-engined supercar and an updated mentation of the DBX SUV. 

No uncertainty determination volition besides beryllium a Volante mentation of the Vantage, pursuing a fewer months down the hard-top coupé. 

The new Aston Martin Vantage has been restyled to emphasise its billing as a “complete hooligan”, chief originative serviceman Marek Reichman has told Autocar, and to guarantee it is evidently chiseled from the DB12 and the upcoming DBS replacement.

Although the Vantage volition acquisition a akin interior overhaul to the DB12, it volition beryllium differentiated by its quality connected the road. Given the high-riding DBX 707 offers Vantage-baiting levels of show and the DB12 has been fixed a powerfulness boost and important handling upgrade implicit the DB11 it replaces, “you get much sporty anyway”, said Reichman, erstwhile it came to creating the adjacent Vantage.

“The adjacent Vantage tin abstracted from a DB12 with immense show and a DBX that feels similar it. It has to beryllium wholly different,” said Reichman. “The replacement for the DBS volition past beryllium “completely antithetic to some of them.”

Product and marketplace strategy manager Alex Long echoed Reichman, saying: "We'll spot successful our sports car and GT range much much breadth and separation betwixt 1 extremity and the other, wherever contiguous they're rather likewise positioned. We'll spot a overmuch broader operating range."

Reichman besides said Aston’s roadworthy car cognition volition beryllium making afloat usage of the Formula 1 team’s resources, apt resulting in several tweaks successful the Vantage’s design. The upgraded exemplary was precocious seen investigating astatine the Nürburgring, revealing a smaller grille and smoother lines astir the beforehand end. The car's rear appears to person received a reworked splitter with a quad-exhaust set-up and much assertive aerial ducting from the instrumentality arches.

The chassis set-up is expected to instrumentality aft the track-honed V12 Vantage, with improvements successful poise and gait ranking precocious connected the to-do list. Lightweighting is not apt to widen to a smaller engine, however: AMG’s six-cylinder wouldn’t enactment for the Vantage, Long said, due to the fact that “the dependable is truthful much” of the car’s earthy affectional appeal. “We don’t physique transport. We physique dreams,” helium added.

As such, the Vantage will use an uprated mentation of the 503bhp 4.0-litre V8 from the current-generation car. The caller Mercedes-AMG SL 63 uses the aforesaid unit, but boosted to 577bhp, hinting astatine its imaginable successful the caller Vantage.

Prices are apt to emergence importantly compared with the £133,920 starting terms of the existing Vantage, fixed Aston’s propulsion to go a profitable luxury brand. For reference, the larger DB12 is anticipated to commencement from £185,000 erstwhile it arrives aboriginal this year.