Aston Martin’s lineup of thrilling mid-engine sports activities vehicles can hint their roots again to a Gran Turismo sport from 2014. In an interview with CarsGuide, Aston Martin Chief Artistic Officer, Marek Reichman defined the impression of the sport on Aston Martin. What began out as a enjoyable design train to rejoice 15 years of Aston Martin’s participation within the sport franchise become a professional lineup of high-performance mid-engined vehicles.
In 2013 Gran Turismo launched the Imaginative and prescient Gran Turismo characteristic which allowed automobile producers to launch digital idea vehicles within the sport for the participant to take pleasure in. Aston Martin joined this program in 2014 with the discharge of the mid-engine DP-100. This mid-engined Aston Martin featured the corporate’s iconic entrance grille and a mid-mounted V12 engine that produced 800 horsepower (597 Kilowatts).
Submitting a automobile to be featured in Gran Turismo requires much more data simply an exterior sketch. For sport designers to include vehicles into the sport they require detailed engineering data together with CAD information, engine dyno data, together with each conceivable numeric metric used to explain a automobile. This meant that Aston Martin needed to dedicate professional engineering assets to the design and execution of the DP-100 for the Gran Turismo sport.
After releasing the DP-100 for Gran Turismo inquiries started to pour into Aston Martin with excited clients who needed to buy a mid-engine Aston Martin DP100. This buyer curiosity led Marek Reichman to create a mannequin which was featured by Aston Martin on the 2014 Pebble Seaside assembly.
From there, buyer curiosity led to the creation of the Aston Martin Valkyrie, which debuted as an idea in 2016. This was adopted by the track-only Aston Martin Valhalla in 2019 and eventually, the reinvention of the Aston Martin Vanquish grand tourer as a mid-engine V6-powered Ferrari fighter. All of those ideas that may quickly attain full-scale manufacturing have the Aston Martin DP-100 for Gran Turismo, which helped kick begin these tasks into life.
