VANTAGE 2005 to 2018 - LIMITED EDITIONS & SPECIAL EDITIONS

[Jon39]

ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE 2005 to 2018

- Aston Martin's best selling model.

THE FIRST VANTAGE
The story began in 2003
AMV8 concept
Built by DC Design of Mumbai, India, and unveiled at the North American International Auto Show, Detroit in January 2003.
The AMV8 concept was based on a DB7 Vantage Volante with a shortened wheelbase.
Now part of the AMHT collection.






ASTON MARTIN VANTAGE (2005 to 2018) - LIMITED EDITIONS AND SPECIAL EDITIONS

DATE ANNOUNCED		MODEL NAME		LIMITED EDITION or SPECIAL EDITION		EXAMPLE OF LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED PLAQUE		NUMBERS		NOTES
Jan 2007		V8 Vantage N24		Limited Edition		N24/03		15		Technically a limited edition race car, built at Gaydon by Special Vehicle Operations. Following a forum vote, it was decided that the N24 should be included on this list. Possibly the very last model built by Aston Martin, which could be used as a race car and also a road car. In that respect, a significant model, because the very first car build by Aston Martin in March 1915, was a race car and also a road car. In 2006, N24 'Rose' the factory prototype car, which also appeared in the TV Top Gear programmme, finished the Nürburgring 24 hours race 4th in class. After the race, it was then driven on public roads back to the UK. Link to an N24 Register website http://www.v8vantage.com/n24register.html
Jul 2007		V8 Vantage N400		Limited Edition		040 of 240		240 Coupes & 240 Roadsters		240 Coupes were built, but only 195 Roadsters. 44 Roadsters were manual (36 of those being UK)
Mar 2009		V12 Vantage		Limited Edition		n/a		1,200		Marketed to be limited to 1,000 with no North American cars planned at that time. During production, it was decided to supply 200 to the US and Canada. The total of 1,200 cars includes the three Carbon Black editions, and the Centenary edition.
Dec 2009		V12 Vantage Carbon Black Edition		Special Edition				192		1st CB edition
2010		V8 Vantage N420		Limited Edition		070 of 420		420 Coupe & 420 Roadster		252 Coupes and 103 Roadsters were built. (Extract from astonmartins.com Aston Martin intended that no more than 420 of each body style  was built; the actually number of coupes built was 180.)
2010		V8 Vantage Special Edition		Special Edition				- ? -
2011		V12 Zagato		Limited Edition		- ? -		101		Initial announcement was limit 150, revised to 101. 2 race cars Zig and Zag were produced first, then 2 prototypes of which at least one survived (for sale by Works in 2021), followed by 61 production cars.
Apr 2012		V8 Vantage S Dragon 88		Limited Edition		- ? -		- ? -		10 built (88 refers to the limit total of Vantage S, Virage & DBS models)
Sep 2012		V12 Vantage Roadster		Limited Edition		005 of 101		101
2012		V12 Vantage Carbon Black Edition		Special Edition				82		2nd CB edition. These 82 cars include the limited edition 'Final Forty' cars (ref. below). Only 52 of the cars are painted metallic Carbon Black.
2012		V12 Vantage Carbon Black Edition		Limited Edition		014 of 40		(40)		Most to USA. 9 RHD. 31 LHD. Nicknamed the 'Final Forty', because they were the last 40 cars of the 82 car Carbon Black ll edition (ref. above).
2013		V8 Vantage Centenary Edition		Limited Edition		- ? -		19		100 cars across whole AM range
2013		V12 Vantage Centenary Edition		Limited Edition		- ? -		3		100 cars across whole AM range. The 3 cars are all LHD and went to Germany. The vins are 1370 (no.98), 1371 (no.99) and 1372 (no.100). All Meteorite silver cars to German spec.
Feb 2013		V8 Vantage S SP10		Special Edition						Manual version of Vantage S. 384 Coupes, 161 Roadsters
2013		CC 100		Limited Edition		- ? -		2
Feb 2014		V8 Vantage N430		Special Edition						420 Coupes, 89 Roadsters (AM Bristol quote AM HQ saying 56)
Apr 2014		V8 Vantage GT		Special Edition						365 Coupes, 131 Roadsters (USA version of the N430 ex. lightweight seats)
2014		V8 Q Zagato		Limited Edition		No. 4 of 4 (numbered on the under bonnet plaque)		4		4 Coupes. A customer commission. Was only revealed publicly, when car 4 of 4 was offered for sale at RM Sotheby's auction in Essen, 26th/27th March 2020.
Feb 2015		Vantage GT12		Limited Edition		026/100 (numbered on the under bonnet plaque)		100		From £250,000.
Oct 2015		DB 10		Limited Edition		- ? -		10		Built for the James Bond film Spectre. Car based on the V8 Vantage.
Apr 2016		V8 Vantage GTS		Limited Edition		1 of 100		100		Coupe or Roadster, Manual or Sportshift. From $137,820. USA only and the last version of this generation V8 Vantage sold in USA.
Apr 2016		V12 Vantage S Manual		Limited Edition		- ? -		100		61 Coupes, 39 Roadsters (USA only) (Not a limited model in UK or EU markets.)
Apr 2016		Vantage GT8		Limited Edition		085 of 150 (numbered on the under bonnet plaque)		150		From £165,000. 80 were built for the UK RHD market, 68 of which were 6-speed manual specification.
Jun 2016		Vantage GT12 Roadster		Limited Edition		- ? -		1		In December 2017, the owner announced his acquisition of the development GT12R. There have also been rumours of possibly more cars in private collections.
Feb 2017		V8 Vantage S Red Bull Racing Edition		Special Edition
Feb 2017		V12 Vantage S Red Bull Racing Edition		Special Edition				15		Figure claimed in a V12 sale advert. 5 RHD incl. 4 manual. (15 might also include any V8 cars bguilt, not clear).
Mar 2017		V8 Vantage AMR Pro		Limited Edition		- ? -		7		Track only. Built by Special Vehicle Operations at Wellesbourne. £950,000 plus local taxes.
Apr 2017		V8 Vantage S Great Britain Edition		Limited Edition		- ? -		5		China
Jun 2017		V8 Vantage AMR		Limited Edition		1 of 200 (not individually numbered)		200		163 Coupes and 43 Roadsters.Not fully subscribed, but the stated number were built, and the remaining cars became dealer stock.
Jun 2017		V12 Vantage AMR		Limited Edition		1 of 100 (not individually numbered)		100		Available as Coupe or Roadster. Oversubscribed. 75 Coupes and 29 Roadsters, including prototypes. 20 of the 29 Roadsters were for the UK.
May 2018		V12 Vantage V600		Limited Edition		01 of 07		14		7 Coupes and 7 Roadsters. The final Vantages, built in autumn 2018 by Special Vehicle Operations. Coupe £1.2m, Roadster £1.4m.

THE LAST VANTAGE
The story ended with the very last Vantage which was built in 2018
ASTON MARTIN V12 VANTAGE V600
A customer commissioned Limited Edition model, comprising seven Coupes and seven Roadsters

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NUMBERED PLAQUES

Date		Limited Edition Model		Photo		Notes
2007		V8 Vantage N24
2007		V8 Vantage N400
2010		V8 Vantage N420
2012		V12 Vantage Carbon Black (2nd edition)
2014		V8 Q Zagato
2018		V12 Vantage V600				Under bonnet

Edited by Jon39 on Wednesday 23 August 18:49

[Jon39]

I have not heard, but presumably the last V12 Vantage V600 has now been built.
Therefore, the Vantage (original) era has now ended.

I would like to thank everyone who contributed information, which greatly assisted with the preparation of this table.
The topic which was used to gather all the data, went on for seven pages.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Hopefully most of the information is correct, but I fear there might be some errors.

Below the main table, I have placed a section for photographs of the Limited Edition sill plates. If this is of interest, please post some more photographs, and I will then add them to that section.

Hope some of you will find the table of interest.
Please comment about any corrections and I can edit.

[Fil.FM]

Great work Jon, good way to celebrate the end of a great AM car.

One note re. GT8 and GT12, I'd add: they are both a development of "Aston Martin Special Projects and Motorsport" division.
I am not sure whether the V600 was a "Q" development or developed by the aforementioned division too!

[Jon39]

Thank you Fil.FM.
I have not heard about a development aspect before, so therefore not sure what the background to that is.

There is a note about Special Vehicle Operations for the V12 V600, simply because the final assembly of that model was not done at Gaydon, but at the Wellesbourne, Warwickshire premises.

[Emilio Largo]

Fil.FM said:

Great work Jon, good way to celebrate the end of a great AM car.

+1, thank you for your efforts, Jon!

May I say it is a crying shame that AML obviously didn´t care to give the outgoing model a proper send-off celebration at the factory. At least I haven´t heard of any official event or seen any good-bye photograph of the last Vantage AMR with the workforce at Gaydon. Just imagine: There is the most successful model ever built in the 118 year history of the marque going out and what are they doing to officially celebrate this at HQ: Nothing. Just NOTHING!

I stand to be corrected, of course.

At least Ford had the decency to bid farewell to the last AM V8 engine in 2017:

[mick996r]

Thank you for the information, very interesting. I cannot see any mention of the Vantage V12S, my roadster was the show/press car in mid 2014, I assumed that the V12S Coupe was slightly before that?

[Jon39]

Thank you Michael (mick996r).

Our cars are very special to each of us, but the Special Editions are only specifically named models.

The Vantage V12S Coupe and Roadster were so called 'core' models, whereas their predecessors V12 Vantage Coupe and V12 Vantage Roadster, were Limited Edition models. At their launch, it was stated that only 1000 Coupes would be produced and subsequently only 101 Roadsters (although only the Roadster had individual numbering identification).

I don't know, but possibly in the end there might have been fewer S models produced, than non S.

Edited by Jon39 on Thursday 28th February 21:27

[v8vantage]

N24 numbering.

[Fil.FM]

Jon39 said:

Thank you Fil.FM.
I have not heard about a development aspect before, so therefore not sure what the background to that is.

There is a note about Special Vehicle Operations for the V12 V600, simply because the final assembly of that model was not done at Gaydon, but at the Wellesbourne, Warwickshire premises.

Hi Jon,

With development I meant that these particular models were subject of ad-hoc testing. For instance, in the case of the GT8, two prototype vehicles were seen multiple times testing around the Nurburgring, (see links below) etc.

There are multiple references to these cars being a work of the Special Projects and Motorsport division on the net, these are the ones I could find:

GT8

https://www.evo.co.uk/aston-martin/v8-vantage/1762...

http://www2.astonmartin.com/en/live/news/2016/04/1...

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-video/video-aston-ma...


GT12

http://www2.astonmartin.com/en/live/news/2015/02/1...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYMbtUblkWY

Hope it helps!

[Jon39]

Thank you Fil.FM.

Others will know more than me about this aspect, but testing at Nurburgring has been quite normal for most of Aston Martin's new models. Probably more so since AML opened premises there.

I have just done a video search, and saw a camouflaged DB9 or DBS being tested there six years ago. That car was eventually revealed as the DB9.2. There are many films including the core models Vanquish, new Vantage, DB11 and DBSS.

My idea with the Table 'Notes' column, was to keep the comments to the very minimum. It would be good to have more information, but the concept was just to provide a very condensed summary about each model.

[TR-Spider]

Fil.FM said:

Great work Jon, good way to celebrate the end of a great AM car.

I second that, thanks for taking the effort.

Thomas

[Fil.FM]

Jon39 said:

Thank you Fil.FM.

Others will know more than me about this aspect, but testing at Nurburgring has been quite normal for most of Aston Martin's new models. Probably more so since AML opened premises there.

I have just done a video search, and saw a camouflaged DB9 or DBS being tested there six years ago. That car was eventually revealed as the DB9.2. There are many films including the core models Vanquish, new Vantage, DB11 and DBSS.

My idea with the Table 'Notes' column, was to keep the comments to the very minimum. It would be good to have more information, but the concept was just to provide a very condensed summary about each model.

Yes I meant, that additional development was carried out specifically for these 2 limited-run models. Wasn't meant to say that other cars weren't developed (also) at the Nurburgring!

My suggestion was to improve your list even more to highlight the core differences between GT# models compared to "regular" ones/AMRs in your list. From your list, one could imply that both are limited-runs.

In reality, these models are very different from each others, in the look (body-work and extensive use of CF), the dynamics/performance (lighter, with different suspension components and geometry) and in the sound department and they represent the, exquisite, Vantage-era at its best!

[Jon39]

Hi Fil.FM,

Yes, it is widely known that the GT8 and GT12 are amongst the pinnacle of the Vantage family.

My table attempts only to be a simple summary list of all the Limited Edition and Special Edition models.
Have purposely kept it as simple as possible by restricting the information to date announced, model name, type of edition and numbers produced.

That should make it easier to refer to, because there is not too much to read. It did become complicated enough (all the Carbon Blacks turned out to be a mighty conundrum and involved double counting at one stage), so incorporating specification details of individual models was purposely never part of the plan.

Anyway, I expect an internet search on any of the models listed, should quickly reveal full specifications, and might possibly lead to Tim Cottingham's very detailed website - https://astonmartins.com/car-category/vh-current-p...

Edited by Jon39 on Friday 1st March 16:25

[Big Ry]

Great work Jon..!

I'd still like to know the numbers of the V12S models (coupe/roadster/SS3/Man).....are they ever likely to actually reveal that do you know ?

[callevascm]

I think Tim Cottingham knows! I understand that there are 36 RHD V12VSR manual with 31 in UK.

[mhurley]

Great work Jon

I did hear there are only 5 manual N430 Roadsters in the UK

Edited by mhurley on Saturday 2nd March 08:11

[hornbaek]

Interesting read and great work - thx for sharing.

[DubmaC]

Late to the party here as usual, but perhaps I can elicit a knowledgeable response from somebody as to my car, which is a 2018 V12 Vantage S RHD Manual Roadster. Yes it is a bit of a gobfull. I love this car, and I know the numbers will be low, but the reference in the OP above states USA only for the V12S Roadster. Can someone shed any light on the RHD, or UK numbers, as I do not see this anywhere at any time.

Cheers

[Jon39]

Hello Dubmac, OP here.

Here is the original press release, which might be of interest to you..

https://www2.astonmartin.com/en/live/news/2016/04/...

In the USA the model was limited to 100, but here in the UK there was not a limit, so was therefore a 'core' model. Even so, the number produced would not have been huge, because there was only a couple of years before the new Vantage was launched.

If you want to know the numbers, my only suggestion is to contact Gaydon. Someone on this forum recently, said they had been given some past model production figures.

[DubmaC]

Thank you for the astonishingly fast response. Much appreciated.