Aston Martin has teased a brand new sports activities automotive from its official Twitter account. The picture reveals the automotive’s silhouette with a giant inexperienced and lime swoosh above it. The automotive seems to be a Vantage variant, with the addition of a rear spoiler and Y-spoke wheels. It is also completed in the identical Aston Martin Racing Inexperienced as its 2021 Method One race automotive livery.
The spoiler and colours evoke the brand new Vantage security automotive that made its debut over the weekend on the pre-season take a look at in Bahrain. That automotive options an AMRG paint job with a Lime Essence pinstripe alongside the entrance air splitter, facet skirts, and rear diffuser. It is also outfitted with a rear wing not discovered on commonplace Vantages. Just like the automotive within the shadowy teaser, it additionally wore the non-compulsory vaned grille versus the usual mesh. May Aston Martin be taking a web page from the Basic Motors playbook and making a tempo automotive version Vantage?
That will be uncharacteristic of the British marque, so maybe a brand new Vantage AMR is extra seemingly. The earlier AMR was restricted to 200 items and, regardless of having the identical energy as common Vantages, made waves for letting you row your individual gears with a seven-speed handbook. Since then the stick shift has been made commonplace for the Vantage, however the AMR boasted many different options that set it aside — carbon ceramic brakes, carbon fiber trim, cast wheels, a mechanical limited-slip differential, and 200 fewer kilos of curb weight.
However, the F1 tempo automotive’s menu of modifications looks like it might simply type the premise for a brand new AMR. The Vantage security automotive elevated output of its 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 by 25 horsepower to 528. The height torque of 505 lb-ft was unchanged, however Aston Martin claims it might be sustained for longer. Moreover, the transmission was strengthened, the chassis stiffened with underbody bracing, and modifications have been made to suspension, steering and dampers. It isn’t clear whether or not the tempo automotive’s bespoke splitter is on the teaser automotive.
Aston Martin gave no data to accompany the teaser, so we’ll simply have to attend till March 22, when the automotive is scheduled for a full reveal.
