V12 Vantage Roadster spotted

[christof]

More info & pics:

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/08/2023-aston-marti...

[EVR]

Quick everyone, act surprised!

[Longy00000]

OMG they are making a V12 roadster
If only I had known I would have saved up

[Jon39]

Any guesses on price ?

Ultra-luxury, V12 Vantage Roadster limited edition. A very special final edition car. Say £400,000 probably available to selected customers only.

[markiii]

christof said:

More info & pics:

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/08/2023-aston-marti...

shame it looks so st

[Minglar]

Jon39 said:

Any guesses on price ?

Ultra-luxury, V12 Vantage Roadster limited edition. A very special final edition car. Say £400,000 probably available to selected customers only.

I heard £60,000 on top of the coupé price Jon. So once fully specced slightly below your estimate. That was a few months ago though. I think the official reveal may be this Friday so perhaps we will know more then. We shall see.

Best Regards

Minglar

[Beckson]

who was the guy on here that was super insistent they wouldnt' do a Roadster and that the V12V coupe was the true "final final" V12V..... most everyone else saw it coming

[EVR]

Beckson said:

who was the guy on here that was super insistent they wouldnt' do a Roadster and that the V12V coupe was the true "final final" V12V..... most everyone else saw it coming

If I recall it correctly, he was a gentleman who had a V12 coupé on order?

[Jon39]

EVR said:

Beckson said:

who was the guy on here that was super insistent they wouldnt' do a Roadster and that the V12V coupe was the true "final final" V12V..... most everyone else saw it coming

If I recall it correctly, he was a gentleman who had a V12 coupé on order?

I think the gentleman said he had been 'assured' by AML and dealer employees, that it was Final and there would not be a Roadster.
Did he later post, that he was offered a [red faced] compensatory deal of some kind ?

[Minglar]

EVR said:

Beckson said:

who was the guy on here that was super insistent they wouldnt' do a Roadster and that the V12V coupe was the true "final final" V12V..... most everyone else saw it coming

If I recall it correctly, he was a gentleman who had a V12 coupé on order?

It’s all in here if you have the time to read through.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I seem to remember three posters who were certain there would be no roadster. One was fairly new on here and hadn’t posted often. The other two both had coupés on order, and one of them had a document from his AM MD stating the car he ordered would be the last V12. Many on here recall what happened with the previous cars and said so months ago. And it looks like history will indeed repeat itself.

ETA…..I believe he did Jon. I think he was offered the option to cancel his order when AM changed their story, or have it built and delivered, and then decide whether to take it or not. I recall seeing pictures of the car when it arrived, but I’m not sure what he actually did afterwards.

Best Regards

Minglar

Edited by Minglar on Thursday 18th August 08:18

Edited by Minglar on Thursday 18th August 08:19

[cayman-black]

No not for me , I only like the coupe. Seem i,ve saved myself some money.

[alscar]

Only temporarily - there will no doubt be other variants given previous AM history - perhaps when they facelift they will offer the V12 as a standard alternative to the 8 or perhaps that’s wishful thinking.

[oilit]

So the surprising news announcement rumours are confirmed!!

Hope they sell them all.

[AdamV12V]

oilit said:

So the surprising news announcement rumours are confirmed!!

Hope they sell them all.

all pre-sold most likely!

[nathwraith1]

I just can’t bring myself to deal with that price! I do like the new V13 vantage but even by Aston Martin’s own standards that is not good value for money!

[Minglar]

Thrill.Driven.

That was the only bit I could actually read in the intelligible email I received from AM!

What will they think of next?

249 examples according to Autocar.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/aston-...

Best Regards

Minglar

[KevinBird]

I had the same email, looks like it’s Chinese text. We’ll done AML marketing!

[oilit]

Yep - I will take it to my local takeaway and ask them to translate mine to me!!

Fortunately this bit was presented to me in English on LInkedIn, but I’ve read it twice and am still none the wiser

Marek Reichman, Aston Martin Chief Creative Officer, adds: "From a design perspective, V12 Vantage Roadster is a combination of living sculpture and physiology, such as the functions of an elite runner or thoroughbred racehorse. On one hand, much like the way their systems are developed to handle the stresses of peak performance and trained to work together to increase efficiency and power using oxygen, V12 Vantage Roadster was designed to maximize the benefits of airflow into, throughout and around the car. And on the other, for our Drivers, we created this explicit open-top sports car for those craving excitement and drama. The platform presented us with a design opportunity to make a contemporary visual statement of intent. The result is a living, breathing, driving sculpture with a level of control that sits at the fingertips".

[Mr.Tremlini]

That email is in Japanese, and contains the usual blurb, and also a link to the Roadster configurator, in Japanese, but it`s live on the the English AM website.

[Agent57]

Yeah, I just had an email in Japanese.

As the yoof would say: WTF?