See And Hear Aston Martin's All-New 'TM01' V6 Engine For The First Time
Aston Martin is getting back into the engine making game. The British company’s last in-house-designed engine - a V8 - came into being way back in 1968, so this has been a long time coming.
The new unit is - as announced previously - a 3.0-litre V6, and we now have some initial details, images, and a short video of the engine dyno testing to enjoy.
It’s the briefest of clips, but we do get to hear it revving quite high while getting nice and toasty. We’ll no doubt be watching more footage of it as development progresses.
Information is still fairly thin on the ground, although Aston Martin has confirmed the V6 uses a hot-V configuration, placing its two turbochargers neatly between the cylinder banks. This setup - which is more common than you might realise - makes for a more compact engine to package, and cuts down on the length of the pipework needed to route through the turbos.
It’s been christened as the ‘TM01’ in a nod to Tadek Marek, the engineer behind Aston’s old V8. The whole unit weighs around 200kg and will be electrified to varying degrees depending on which model it’s fitted to.
Speaking of which, the dry-sumped V6 is set to power the Valhalla hypercar, along with the new mid-engined Vanquish. It’ll be used in front-engined applications too (perhaps in a wet-sump form), with Aston CEO Andy Palmer recently suggesting that the V6 will replace the V8s it sources from AMG for the Vantage, DB11 and DBX.
The engine will go into production in 2022, built in an as-yet-undisclosed location somewhere in the UK.
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.
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Nice motor, shame about the turbos
Yeah I agree with you its a real shame that they had to go to the dark side with turbos
How is that a shame ? Only way to get enough power from smaller displacement
How is that a shame ? Only way to get enough power from smaller displacement
How is that a shame ? Only way to get enough power from smaller displacement
Even though it might seem like a downgrade from N/A V8s, I’d say I’m more interested by the fact that it’s an entire in-house effort rather than by the fact that they’ve went from V8s to V6s. Yeah AMG engines are cool, but at the end it’s still powered by engines from a bigger outsider source, which also puts the same engine in its cars.
I’m quite curious to know where they’ve went to find their engineers in order to be able to get the required staff for it. It’d be interesting to know on what these engineers worked before getting hired by AM, and to know the influences behind that V6.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some ex-Cosworth engineers behind that engine.
well the last v8’s they used were also not NA remember?
Yeh but same with their old V8 and V12. That effectively belonged to ford. Besides, Mercedes is canning the V8 so Aston wouldn’t have done badly to have picked it up and at least done something with it.
Lovely engine design, sad about it being turbocharged but if it performs well its great :D
They should use what they’ve learned from this on the V12 maybe..