Aston Martin certain is aware of how you can have a good time a century (and a decade). In honor of its one hundred and tenth anniversary, the automaker has unveiled a brand new V12-powered supercar known as the Valour. Restricted to only 110 models globally, the Aston Martin Valour boasts retro design cues and a guide gearbox as the corporate dubs it “the final of an period.”
Just like the restricted Aston Martin Victor from 2020, the Valour seems to the long-lasting V8 Vantage of the Seventies and Eighties for inspiration. The outside does a wonderful job of mixing previous and new; a clamshell hood with a “horseshoe” vent and retro rounded headlights give the Valour a particular entrance fascia.
Horizontal “gentle blade” taillights and a big embedded spoiler provide up further retro cues within the rear, whereas the gorgeous 21-inch light-weight solid alloy honeycomb wheels come wrapped in new Michelin Pilot Sport S 5 tires (275/35 entrance, 325/30 rear). Patrons can choose from 21 commonplace exterior colours, or they’ll peruse the Q by Aston Martin shade palette for one thing extra distinctive – like uncovered carbon fiber.
The inside isn’t any much less extravagant. Aston Martin designers took the basic woolen tweed – like that of the 1959 Le Mans-winning DBR1 – and blended it with high-tech carbon fiber accents and fashionable, light-weight seats. Even the rounded wood shift knob has its personal retro allure.
The V12 in query is a front-mounted, twin-turbocharged 5.2-liter unit that produces 705 horsepower (715 PS) and 555 pound-feet (753 Newton-meters) of torque. It comes with the aforementioned “bespoke” six-speed guide transmission (once more, identical to the Victor) and a mechanical limited-slip differential.
However immense energy and a guide gearbox are solely a part of the equation. The Valour has a singular suspension distinct from different Aston Martins that makes use of adaptive dampers and anti-roll bars tuned particularly to match the facility output of the V12. Past that, the Valour has further bracing, entrance and rear, that enhance torsional and lateral stiffness, in addition to carbon ceramic stoppers. The entrance brakes are six-piston, 16.0-inch carbon ceramic rotors, and the rear brakes are four-piston, 14.0-inch rotors. The pair assist shed 50.7 kilos over commonplace metal brakes.
As anticipated, Aston Martin doesn’t listing any pricing particulars for the Valour. Our guess is that each one 110 examples have already been accounted for. Nonetheless, the Valour kicks off manufacturing at Aston Martin’s Gaydon Headquarters in Q3 of 2023, with the primary deliveries scheduled to happen later this yr.