A New Aston Martin Vantage Roadster Is Coming
Soon, you’ll be able to order your Aston Martin Vantage with a lot more headroom. The British company has released a set of images showing a very lightly disguised Vantage Roadster “engineering car,” which previews a production version arriving Spring 2020.
Beyond that, Aston Martin is keeping shtum, although it isn’t hard to work out what the Vantage Roadster will be like - all the stuff under the skin of the coupe is likely to be carried over. That means it’ll use a Mercedes-AMG-sourced 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 developing 503bhp.
Power will be sent rewards via a transaxle-mounted eight-speed automatic gearbox and an electronically-controlled limited-slip differential. The tin top’s 3.6-second 0-62mph time will most likely drop a tenth or two owing to the inevitable gain in weight.
Will it get the option of a seven-speed dog-leg manual gearbox option, as per the Vantage coupe? That’s an unknown at this stage, although we don’t see why not.
This, or a 992 Porsche 911 Carrera S Cabriolet?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
It reminds me very much of the f-type
Especially the side profile!
It’s what the F-Type would look like if it was an EV and had the typical “Look at me, I’m electric!” design to it
Gimme Vantage AMR with the engine from the AMG GT R
It kinda already does
I still don’t like the look of the front but the rear end is damn fine
Would rather have an F-Type V6 tbh
Or the new TVR Griffith
I didn’t like the coupe’s rear, but this one uses the tail lights to its adVANTAGE and I like that.
Who cares? I can’t even afford a 2002 car.
I rather have the coupè version
Here’s a side-on view of my F-Type. Damn, they are very, very similar!
I say this having sold a V8 Vantage (previous gen) to get an F-Type.