The gentleman from the British magazine i Motor Mag had the chance to get face to face with the Aston Martin V12 Vantage. What did they think about the new car? Click above to find out.
Aston Martin is performing a magic trick. It is plucking the 6.0-liter 510 hp engine out of the DBS, and is stuffing it in the smaller, lighter Vantage. Poof: the V12 Vantage is born. But don’t get too excited just yet. Like most magic tricks, everything is not a whole as it seems. The addition of four cylinders to the Vantage has made the crash protection area too small to meet U.S. standards.
So we will be a little sad when we see the car in-person for its premiere at the Geneva Motor Show. For everyone who is lucky to live in outlaw country, the V12 Vantage has a top speed of 190 mph (305 km/h) and 0-62 mph (0-100 kp/h) time of 4.2 seconds. These figures are made possible not only from the bigger engine, but also a serious diet of lightweight material including a carbon fiber driveshaft.
Even for those who live in countries where the V12 Vantage is legal, it may still be hard to get. Only 1,000 examples total are scheduled to be built.
The Aston Martin Vantage RS was caught testing on some of the winding roads at the infamous Stelvio Pass in the Italian Alps. We originally saw this car as the V12 Vantage RS concept at the Geneva Auto Salon in March.
The production version will be limited to only a few units, and from spy shots, it looks it will stay fateful the concept. The Vantage RS will be powered by a V12 engine that will deliver 600 hp and will debut in early 2009.
Aston Martin unveiled the V12 Vantage RS Concept at the end of 2007 and announced a production version will soon follow. First rumors suggest that it will make its world debut this year at the British Motor Show, but considering the car is still under development we won’t see it until early 2009.
AutoCar’s sources said that the production version will stay faithful to the concept as much as possible, but will be changed so it can be homologated for real-world use.
Under the hood there will be a 6.0-litre V12 engine that will produce around 550 hp. The Vantage V12 production version will also borrow bigger carbon ceramics brakes from the DBS.
Just a few days we brought you the first spy shots of the new baby Aston Martin, and now here it is again, at Nurburgring of course, but this time in blue and pulling out of Jaguar’s test center. The Vantage V12 RS is the production version of the V12 Vantage RS Concept unveiled in December 2007.
Aston Martin registered the car as a V12. That’s the 6.0-litre V12 we’ve already seen in use in the DB9 and DBS - but expected to be in a different state of tune for the Vantage road car.
The Vantage V12 RS will debut sometime in 2009 and will be priced around £140,000.
Just a few days ago we were reporting that the V12 Vantage RS will go into production and now we bring you the proof: CarMagazine caught it testing. The production will begin in the first quarter of 2009.
The V12 gets its name from the 6.0-litre unit shoehorned under the bonnet. The production version will have an output of about 550 hp and not 600 hp like the concept version.
The V12 should also get new wheels, not the bling aftermarket items seen on the static car. The V12 Vantage RS Concept is available in Mako Blue colour and it is expected that this will also be offered for the production version. Production itself will probably be at Gaydon, and the price is expected to be in excess of £150,000.
When Aston Martin launched the V12 Vantage RS Concept they said it was a design study more than a concept. In an interview at the Geneva Motor Show, Ullrich Bez, Aston Martin CEO, said that next year we will see a production version of the concept. Of course will be a limited edition.
The Aston Martin V12 Vantage RS is a 600 hp supercar powered by a 6.0 liters V12 engine recently used in the DBS. It can make the 0 to 60 mph sprint in just 4 seconds and can hit a top speed of 186 mph.
Unfortunately Ullrich Bez gave no details about the price, technical details or the number of units that will be brought on the market. Instead he gave another good new: DBS will also see a Roadster version! It will be available in mid 2009.
At the official opening of Aston Martin’s first ever dedicated design centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire, on Tuesday 11 December, Dr Ulrich Bez, Chief Executive Officer, thrilled an audience of more than seven hundred VIP guests with a surprise unveiling of a stunning new 600bhp performance concept car; the V12 Vantage RS. > More
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