V8 Vantage N430/GT12 half way house coming?

[AOK]

Waking to the news of the Porsche 911 R, an incredibly exciting lightweight manual normally-aspirated £130k offering, I'm left disappointed that due to the way Porsche now do business, even if I wanted to, I can't buy one!

All this leads me back to the N430, which is something I've been toying with for months. Does anyone know if 2016 will see a new iteration of V8 Vantage special edition? There can't be more than 12-18 months of production left surely?

We've had the N400, N420 etc... can we expect a manual-tran N450? Or GT8 of some sort? V8 Vantage GT? V8 Vantage R?

Any thoughts / information (vague rumours or otherwise!) would be very interesting to hear

I'm desperate to join the clan... absolutely LOVE my TVR, but I just find its not refined enough for long trips / daily use.

[V8 Vantage GT]

There is supposed to be 100 only Vantage GT-S cars slotted for the US, basically the last hurrah. Just a GT that can be ordered with unlimited options. I haven't seen any on dealer websites. I think the GT was perfect the way it is.

Maybe there will be something similar in Europe, an N430-S, or something.

Here is the US press release. I've been told US orders for Vantages have been closed for sometime now. What's out there, that's it, once it's gone, it's gone.

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/attachment.php?...

[AOK]

V8 Vantage GT said:

There is supposed to be 100 only Vantage GT-S cars slotted for the US, basically the last hurrah. Just a GT that can be ordered with unlimited options. I haven't seen any on dealer websites. I think the GT was perfect the way it is.

Maybe there will be something similar in Europe, an N430-S, or something.

Here is the US press release. I've been told US orders for Vantages have been closed for sometime now. What's out there, that's it, once it's gone, it's gone.

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/attachment.php?...

Thanks, that's very informative. That bulletin suggests that production ends June 2016 - no suggestion of it being that soon here in the UK?

[Big Ry]

I would assume they'll do something similar for Europe late this year or early next. Probably a good opportunity to pick up what would probably be a great value car spec vs price wise (assuming you like the spec that is), just like the SP10's were.

If they did, I wonder if they'll offer a run out V12S as well as V8............

[J12KJR]

AOK said:

V8 Vantage GT said:

There is supposed to be 100 only Vantage GT-S cars slotted for the US, basically the last hurrah. Just a GT that can be ordered with unlimited options. I haven't seen any on dealer websites. I think the GT was perfect the way it is.

Maybe there will be something similar in Europe, an N430-S, or something.

Here is the US press release. I've been told US orders for Vantages have been closed for sometime now. What's out there, that's it, once it's gone, it's gone.

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/attachment.php?...

Thanks, that's very informative. That bulletin suggests that production ends June 2016 - no suggestion of it being that soon here in the UK?

The June 2016 end in the US is because the Vantage doesn't meet some of their regulations, they were given a dispensation to keep selling non compliant vehicles until June 2016.
After that they would have to redisgn the Vantage to comply and that isn't going to happen.
As for any runout models have a chat with say AM Works as they may be able to indicate what may or may not come about.

[JohnG1]

N450 does not make sense - would require investment in the v8 powertrain which is surely dead on it's feet now that AMG V8 is on the way.

Maybe a GT-12 body with an n430 engine as a parts bin special is an option...

[roughrider]

AOK said:

All this leads me back to the N430, which is something I've been toying with for months. Does anyone know if 2016 will see a new iteration of V8 Vantage special edition? There can't be more than 12-18 months of production left surely?

We've had the N400, N420 etc... can we expect a manual-tran N450? Or GT8 of some sort? V8 Vantage GT? V8 Vantage R?

I'd get in touch with a dealer, and ask the question...

[Big Ry]

As J12KJR has rightly said, i'd guess the chance of AM investing anything in increasing power output from the existing V8 (or V12 for that matter) lump would be fairly slim. If they were going to do that I think they would have done it before pulling the plug on US Vantage sales, as that would have been an easier way to shift a few units instead of parts bin specials.

In all fairness though, I think most of us would prefer that they focus on the new range now instead of spending valuable funds tweaking the outgoing one. Saying that, the new 7 speed V12S Manual would have taken a bit of investment I'd assume, so anything's possible.