Mystery Buyer Paid Aston £20m For Vanquish Designs And Tooling
The Aston Martin DBS Superleggera is an incredible super GT, but we can’t help but have a soft spot for the car it replaced: the Vanquish.
Powered by a naturally-aspirated V12 that produces all kinds of brilliant noises, the Vanquish is sure to go down as one of Aston’s greatest hits. But the car may live on in some form: it turns out an unknown buyer snapped up the tooling plus design drawings for the car. Colour us intrigued.
The sale has come to light as it’s noted in Gaydon’s public offering prospectus, released as part of the company going public. The price was £20 million.
So, we don’t know who bought all of it, nor why. We do, however, know that 18 months of aid from Aston Martin Consulting was included in the deal, so it does seem likely we might at least see elements of the Vanquish’s design carried over onto a new machine from a specialist firm.
It’s an exciting prospect, we think.
Source: Automotive News
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I remember my great-uncle used to have a 2004 Vanquish S and it was nothing short of perfect - everything about it was simply flawless - the design, the *cough crappy gearbox, the lovely interior, the way it looked on a rainy afternoon, the way it slid about like a palace around countryside B-roads, the way the seats felt like wingbacks around corners , everything…It was really sad to see it go and even more so to see what replaced it, even if it was an M760Li
My uncle had a DB9, with the manual
Great car, and amazingly fast.
But was god damn unreliable.
Once broken down outside his office in December.
As he went out of country for a month or 2, the car slowly got snowed over. Pretty sight tbh.
But he sold it a year later for a W12 Conti.
No one has regretted it since
Man its sad to get rid of stuff like that. Like i honestly don’t know why you would ever get rid of an Aston. Even if its the Cygnet
The ultimate wealthy person one up, “You bought a Vanquish? Well I bought the Vanquish design and toolings from Aston Martin so I can build more Vanquishes”
Reckon it was Kahn or Ares
Was wondering about Kahn myself - perhaps a more involved follow-up to the DB9-based Vengeance is in the works?
Is that the same Khan of supercar megabuild? Afsul or something?
Ah man. Imagine getting like a singer style upgrade. Would be immense.
maybe we’ll get a RUF for astons..?
‘Coming soon from a Chinese factory….. the new Astwong Moting Vonquish’
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When you Aston Martin won’t let you buy a Vanquish so you just buy out the whole thing
That’s all very well but what if you have an old Vanquish, or model with common parts, and need spares for it which would have come from this tooling, especially if the new owner goes belly up?