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An Aston Martin combines three important elements: power, beauty
and soul.
Aston Martins are truly special – they always have been and always
will be.
V8 Vantage -
Power to Perform
The V8 Vantage is a very fast sports car. With 0-100 km/h in 5.0
seconds (0-60 mph in 4.9 seconds) and a potential maximum speed of
280 km/h (175mph) its performance figures are as heady as you would
expect of an Aston Martin.
The key is the engine, the heart of any great sports car. This new
V8 has been specifically designed and developed for the V8 Vantage.
Hand-assembled at  Aston
Martin’s new, purpose-built engine facility in Cologne, Germany, it
is a light, compact, all-alloy unit – high-performance, yet
responsive even at the lower end of the rev range. Its maximum
torque is an impressive 410 Nm (302 lb ft) @ 5000 rpm, 75 per cent
of which is delivered at just 1500 rpm – barely more than idle –
making the V8 Vantage extremely tractable and great fun to drive.
Push harder, and that V8 engine revs freely, delivering refined,
exhilarating pace.
True to Aston Martin tradition, it is as musical as it is muscular:
an engine that entertains in every sense. The bore and stroke
dimensions are optimised to provide an excellent balance between
outright power and torque, while a resonance induction system
improves tractability and performance, and contributes to that
inspired engine note.
Class-leading Rigidity
The advanced body structure of the V8 Vantage is the key to its
superb handling and responsiveness. The unique-to-Aston Martin
all-alloy VH (Vertical Horizontal) architecture provides an
excellent backbone, while the use of sophisticated materials such as
lightweight alloys, magnesium and advanced composites for the body
further contributes to the car’s low weight and class-leading
rigidity.
The immense
strength and rigidity of this structure has a number of benefits: it
provides a stable platform from which the suspension can control the
car, gives the driver enhanced control and feel, it effectively
increases the strength and safety of the passenger cell and improves
build quality.
Classic Style
The design brief for the V8 Vantage dictated a style that
could not be anything else but an Aston Martin. Elegant, yet with a
controlled aggression. Perfectly proportioned, with a low,
purposeful stance. Modern, yet incorporating classic Aston Martin
design cues. Like all Aston Martin sports cars, it is simple,
understated and beautiful.
Essentially, it’s a sports car with a simple goal – to provide
maximum exhilaration – yet it is also one of the world’s most
beautiful cars. The side profile is an elegant, simple sweep,
creating a curved line rather like a bow under tension, while the
rear haunches are wide and muscular, like those of a powerful
animal. It is a pure, elegant design – but, above all, instantly
recognisable as an Aston Martin.
DB9
A Striking Balance
The Finest Engineering
DB9 is new from the ground up. Every feature has been tailored
to make the world’s finest sports GT.
The starting point was to define the ideal dimensions, proportions
and materials for the chassis. Aston Martin did not use an adapted
platform from an existing family or luxury saloon – the most common
starting point for GT cars. This approach can lead to compromise in
styling and weight.
Aston Martin developed its own incredibly light and strong
aerospace-specification bonded aluminium structure. This ‘VH’
structure, which is unique to Aston Martin, has given DB9 one of the
most structurally efficient body frames in the car industry. Its
enormous rigidity aids handling, driver feedback and safety. More
than any other single component, the advanced aluminium structure is
the reason for DB9’s extraordinary nimbleness AND responsiveness.
However, it is not just the body structure that is light and rigid.
Other components have been developed with light weight in mind.
This light weight, allied to class-leading rigidity, contributes to
improved acceleration, agility, steering response, braking and fuel
economy. In short the result is a significantly heightened driving
experience.
Perfect Balance
Great sports cars must handle superbly. They should respond
quickly and predictably to driver commands; they should be nimble
and agile.
The front-to-rear weight distribution of DB9 is a perfect 50:50 with
85 percent of the car’s mass sited between front and rear axles.
The aluminium V12 engine is mounted as far back as possible in a
‘front midengined’ layout. The compact aluminium transaxle housing
the gearbox and final drive is positioned at the rear, forward of
the rear axle.
The result is a car that can be driven with great delicacy, a car
that communicates richly through its steering, that is stable and
predictable.
Understated Elegance
Sports cars are meant to be beautiful, and no maker of
sporting cars has a better reputation for understated elegance and
graceful styling than Aston Martin. Their beauty comes from
harmonious proportions, a ground-hugging stance, taut surfacing, and
thorough attention to detail.
They are subtle. DB9 appears as if milled from a solid piece of
aluminium.
Its side profile is typically Aston Martin: very clean, with a
single sweep roofline. The uncluttered lines flow through to a
distinctive tail, and the haunches on the rear wings are wide and
curvaceous.
‘Aston Martins are not edgy. They don’t have sharp surfaces or
pronounced power domes. The bodywork is gently curved, like an
athlete with great muscle tone,’ explains director of design Henrik
Fisker.
Great design, however, is not just about form; it is also about
function. An Aston Martin is by definition very fast, so it needs to
be aerodynamically efficient. It must be superbly stable at high
speed – even the exhaust silencer is aerodynamically shaped to help
achieve this.
The result is that DB9 drives arrow-straight at high speed yet, like
all great Aston Martins, it does so with supreme elegance and grace.
Vanquish S V12
The Ultimate Aston Martin
Dramatic Styling
 The
lightweight aluminium and carbon fibre structure of Vanquish S is
unique to Aston Martin. It is this special combination of materials
that gives the Vanquish S such enormous strength and torsional
rigidity for superior handling, safety and durability.
This technology has become the Aston Martin signature of today; just
as hand-formed aluminium panels were in the past. (The aluminium
body panels are still hand finished. It is the best way to achieve a
superb finish.)
As Aston Martin spearheads developments of its innovative
construction techniques, so it also leads with its sophisticated
engine and Formula One-style transmission. The Vanquish S uses the
most powerful version ever of Aston Martin’s highly acclaimed
6.0-litre V12.
Designed to Stir the Soul
 Aston
Martin’s hand-built 6.0-litre V12 is renowned as one of the finest
engines in the world: enormously powerful, smooth and beautiful. It
can also lay claim to being the world’s best-sounding high
performance car engine.
In the Vanquish S, it reaches its zenith. Maximum power is 520 bhp
(388 kW) at 7000rpm, with maximum torque of 425 lb ft (577 Nm) at
5800rpm.
Such power delivers sterling performance. Indeed, this is the
fastest-ever road going Aston Martin. Top speed is more than 200 mph
(321 km/h), the 0-62mph (100km/h) dash is accomplished in only 4.8
seconds while 0-100 mph (160 km/h) takes just 9.8 seconds.
The Aston Martin Flagship
 In 1914, the
founders of Aston Martin, Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford, began
building handcrafted, high-performance sports cars. They believed
sports cars should have a distinctive and individual character, be
built to the highest standards and be exhilarating to drive and own.
Aston Martin has earned a reputation for another speciality:
building lifelong one-to-one relationships with each of its cars and
with every owner. This is due to meticulous records and archives,
plus personal attention from experts at the factory.
The Vanquish S effortlessly combines 21st Century technology and
200mph (321 km/h) performance, with understated elegance and
craftsmanship.
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