German Tuner Pumps Aston Martin Vantage Up To 671bhp

Wheelsandmore will happily give your Vantage a DBS-troubling power-to-weight ratio via new turbos and an ECU tweak

22 Mar 2019

German Tuner Pumps Aston Martin Vantage Up To 671bhp

If you’re rooting for Aston Martin to dump its twin-turbo V12 under the bonnet of the current Vantage, you’re going to end up disappointed. Although a successor to the old V12 Vantage is technically possible, it’s unlikely, thanks in large part to the 5.2 being some 100kg heavier than the sports car’s Mercedes-AMG-sourced V8.

Plus, that eight-banger can be punted way beyond the 503bhp it outputs in the Vantage - it makes a mighty [630bhp in the AMG GT 4 Door](https://www.carthrottle.com/post/mercedes-amg-gt-4-door-review-despite-a-confusing-name-this-things-awesome/], for instance. We’re not sure if Aston Martin has any plans to turn up the anger of its borrowed V8 just yet, but for anyone not wanting to wait around and find out, a company called Wheelsandmore will happily oblige your uber-powerful Vantage fantasies.

Along with a bunch of 21 and 22-inch wheel upgrades for the new Vantage, the German company is also offering a Tec-Tronic tuning box for the car, yours for €2521. It only does its thing once the car is warmed up and ready to take some abuse, at which point it ups the 4.0-litre to 617bhp. Torque, meanwhile, swells from 505lb ft to 568.

Or, if you don’t mind something a little more invasive, Wheelsandmore also offers a ‘Stage II’ tuning kit, the price of which hasn’t been released just yet. It’ll be quite a bit more expensive than the tuning box, as it involves fitting bigger turbocharger and a new exhaust plus a little fiddle of the ECU.

Go for this option, and you’ll have 671bhp and 604lb ft bubbling away just under your right foot, ready to compact your internal organs at a moment’s notice. Bringing the conversation back to V12, we should probably point out the Stage II package gives the Vantage a power-to-weight that’s awfully close to that of the 12-cylinder DBS Superleggera. Now that’s a drag race we’d like to see…

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

That’s badass

Ikr. No one plz tag that kid who fights with everyone for no f ing reason

I love these new vantage so much

Same lol

Question for a German citizen:

How does a “tuning company” get to modify production cars and maintain German street legal status, yet individuals cannot modify their car (to the best of my current understanding) how does that add up? Can you modify your own car and get it inspected to be legal somehow?

You can modify your car, but it has to be in compliance with the TÜV. Originally, the TÜV was a branch of the German “DMV”, that determines it your car is roadworthy (overly exact of course, it’s germany).
If you modify something, you go there, and if it checks out, it gets added to your papers, and you just keep that in the car in case police want to know if your modification got checked.
Lately, it’s become a money-printing business . The ckecks get more and more expensive, and the police often doubts that your modification is legal (f.e. ride height). If that’s the case, you have to get it checked again. Also, they are the ones who give out drivers licenses, and those have gotten extremely expensive, and you need a special one for every kind of vehicle.
Tuning companies generally get a car, modify it in exacty the way they will later, get that checked by the TÜV, and if it’s alright, they can offer that exact package to customers (at least that’s how i get it, should be fairly accurate)

And, to give you an example for easy modification, you can use parts which are already proven to be roadlegal for some cars. You get a document (abe, it says which car is allowed to use something like rims) and you don’t need to go to the tüv.