Aston Martin keeps it's hands busy, ahead of the official debut, which will be held later this week, they have been releasing few photos and details of their new V12 Vantage Roadster.
Being a roadster, it has certain modifications, which diferentiate it from the Coupe, like the new rear deck lid being redesigned, a new spoiler and a new suspension setup, to co-operate with the open-top design.
You know how it is when you wake up in the morning, have the things planned for the entire day and know, that being in the automotive world, there's always new and exciting stuff waiting to be discovered, or in this case, getting an official announcement.
I'm talking about the ultra-teased new Aston Martin Vanquish. For me, it was the most pleasant surprise of the day and it's barely past noon.
French tuner Dratz, thought to give this car a more "british" feeling, by wrapping in the car in green, altough I think that the wrap has been dropped into the radioactive waste, or something, because the car is as close to a lemon lime color, as it gets and boy we like it!
To give it a meaner look, they have dark tinted the headlights and tail lights and added a green stripe on the glossy black wheels.
Did I mention that the car is tuned by Mansory?
Source: GTSpirit
-Dan B.
Great news for all the James Bond and car classics fans.
One of the most iconic cars in history, Aston Martin DB5 will appear in the new James Bond movie, called Skyfall which will be launched in cinemas in November 2012.
The picture above is the actual car from the filming, it was takes in Glencoe in Scotland. It has the original number plate as in Goldfinger with Sean Connery. The DB5 appeared in several James Bond movies, the most important was the first one, the Goldfinger in 1964. Then it appeared in Thunderball, Casino Royale, Tommorrow never Dies and Goldeneye.
Project Kahn really knows about cars, they proved it once again, by putting their imprint on the British version of the Toyota IQ, which is the Aston Martin Cygnet.
For the exterior the biggest difference is the stance, with the help of a lowered suspension and 17 inch front wheels and 18 inch rear wheels, the car states aggressiveness. Behind the huge rims, there are new calipers that can be painted in whatever color the customer wants.
It was a matter of time until the production model of the 24-hour race car, would hit up the web as an official announcement. And it did, via official PDF brochure, picked up by CarsUK.
The base of this car is the V12 Vantage, but with a whole body of aluminium and carbon fiber, built by Zagato. Engine or drivetrain haven't been modified, it's the same V12 engine, which develops 510 horsepower, sent to the rear wheels, by a 6-speed manual gearbox, combined with a limited-slip differential.
If we take on what Aston Martin promises, the car could hit the 100km.h mark in 4.2s and a top-speed of 304Km.h
The wheels are also Zagato's unique design, measuring 19" wrapped around Pirelli PZero rubber, behind them we can spot Ceramic Brakes with 6-pot in the front and 4-pot in the back.
Guys from Dartz dealer in France, provided us with a neat video of wrapping their client's custom Mansory-tuned Aston Martin DBS in a satin red matte vinyl. They show us how the car-wrapping process goes, from null to finished product.
The car they've worked with is custom tuned Aston Martin DBS by Mansory, with a new complete bodykit, interior, red lip edge Mansory wheels to match the new car color and completely new sound system.
In our previous article about the AM Zagato we already mentioned that the first two cars made would be trackcars. Now a spyphotographer of the Dutch carblog aw.nl spotted one of these racecars being unloaded for some testing on the Nürburgring.
