Aston Martin has revived the Vanquish name for a new flagship sports car that will boast 824bhp from a twin-turbo V12, making it the firm’s most powerful pure-combustion engined model yet.
Originally planned to use a plug-in hybrid set-up based around a smaller V8, the British car maker’s £300,000 two-seat GT, which is due in October, instead keeps the engine layout that has long powered Aston Martin flagships. This started with the 1998 Project Vantage – the prototype of the first generation Vanquish, which was launched in 2001.
Just 1000 Vanquish cars will be built per year, and they will initially be sold on an invitation-only basis. Long added that without this V12, Aston would not have revived the Vanquish name. “We didn’t call the DBS ‘Vanquish’ because it wasn’t a Vanquish,” he said. “It wasn’t a dedicated car like the car, which was on its own platform and had its own engine and tuning. “This time that’s what we wanted to do. We set out to say ‘let’s build a Vanquish’, and everything flowed from there.
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